In this episode of Humble Beginnings, we chat with Rancher Government Solutions' CEO Paul Smith about his Baltimore, Maryland, upbringing, and ultimate rise to leadership. Smith and his seven siblings all worked their way through high school and college after attending Catholic parochial school as children for its values, proximity and affordability. While Smith's first job after graduating from Loyola College with a Business Administration degree was with Exxon Office Systems, he spent time in his youth cutting lawns and serving papers. These experiences taught him the value of hard work at a young age, and he'd later categorize his leadership style as a "connector," for reasons that also resonate with his journey.
Tune in to hear how Smith went from selling word processors to the legal market at age 22, to retiring from Red Hat once it sold to IBM only to be recruited back to the industry just 19 months later to run the American subsidiary of SUSE, or Rancher Government Solutions. Today, he's giving back, remembering the leaders who impacted his career and sharing words of wisdom to the next generation.
In this episode of Humble Beginnings, we chat with Rancher Government Solutions' CEO Paul Smith about his Baltimore, Maryland, upbringing, and ultimate rise to leadership. Smith and his seven siblings all worked their way through high school and college after attending Catholic parochial school as children for its values, proximity and affordability. While Smith's first job after graduating from Loyola College with a Business Administration degree was with Exxon Office Systems, he spent time in his youth cutting lawns and serving papers. These experiences taught him the value of hard work at a young age, and he'd later categorize his leadership style as a "connector," for reasons that also resonate with his journey.
Tune in to hear how Smith went from selling word processors to the legal market at age 22, to retiring from Red Hat once it sold to IBM only to be recruited back to the industry just 19 months later to run the American subsidiary of SUSE, or Rancher Government Solutions. Today, he's giving back, remembering the leaders who impacted his career and sharing words of wisdom to the next generation.