Paul Turino
Managing Director at Velocity Media Ventures
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Turino is a Managing Director and global technology executive with 11+ years in senior leadership roles and a multi-decade track record driving large-scale digital transformation, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, and M&A initiatives that have generated over $40B in value. He has served as interim CIO/CTO/CISO and trusted advisor to boards, CEOs, and PE/VC investors across finance, telecom, healthcare, media and the public sector, consistently turning legacy, high-risk environments into secure, scalable platforms. Paul blends hands-on engineering chops (including back-end contributions to the Linux performance monitor project "below") with strategic rigor—building enterprise innovation labs, venture incubators, and governance that deliver nine-figure revenue growth and multi-billion-dollar cost optimization. He is often engaged where stakes are highest—regulatory pressure, complex global operations, or aggressive growth targets—and is known for pragmatic, collaborative leadership that moves quickly from vision to measurable execution. Based in New York, he also advises academic innovation programs and curated executive dealmaking forums, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth, dealcraft, and institutional experience.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Hofstra UniversityTechnology, Technology at Farmingdale State CollegeArchbishop Molloy High School
Github Skills (6)
rust10
back-end-development10
refactor9
performance-optimization9
crate9
refactoring9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebookincubator/below
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `below` project, focusing on performance monitoring for Linux systems. Their work included making default sort behavior changes, fixing build processes, and refactoring code. Furthermore, the user was involved in buckifying and refactoring code, including creating separate crates for common dependencies and model components.
linuxresource-monitor
Rohfosho/RapGenerator
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 10 days
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