About

Meet Ted Paulsen

Passion: Working with purpose driven individuals to help them scale their businesses, prepare for funding or an exit, and find personal and professional fulfillment throughout the process.

Approach: Show up, listen, ask questions, identify objectives, define “prosperity,” provide practical advice to implement meaningful people, strategy, execution, and cash tools.

Expertise: Combining Scaling Up® principles and proven growth tools with extensive operation and packaging experience (for raising capital or preparing for an exit) as an entrepreneur, business executive, and securities attorney.

Active Business: VEST EAP provides proactive, “upstream” mental health services including person-to-person support, an online educational platform, peer training, and executive coaching.

Active Business: Lecticon Learning and Development enriches lives by creating and delivering online training through an easily implemented LMS platform.

Professional Highlights

CEO: Lecticon Learning and Development, a turnaround venture involving restructuring over $1 million in debt and partnering with angel investors. Lecticon enriches lives by creating and delivering online training through an easily implemented LMS platform.

CEO: VEST EAP, a “bootstrapped” startup with over $500,000 of self-provided funding. VEST EAP provides “upstream” mental health services including person-to-person support, educational, peer training, and executive coaching.

Operating Partner: Old Mill Brick, a successful operating company involving packing the company and facilitating a private equity buyout. Old Mill provides novel brick and rock construction products.

Founder and CFO/COO: aVinci Media, a personal media company selling products into mass retailers grown with angel, private equity, and public funding of over $25 million as a public company.

COO and General Counsel: Prime Holdings, a specialty insurance company grown through private offerings, strategic partnership funding, and bank lending of over $30 million.

Business and Securities Attorney: Paulsen PC and predecessor practices, a boutique legal practice responsible for structuring more than $250 million in small, incremental funding raises for client companies.

Personal Highlights

Interests:
Outdoors, Family, Learning, Books, Golf, Fishing, Friendships

Education:
Juris Doctor: Utah and California (inactive) licensed attorney. University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Bachelor of Science: Accounting major, entrepreneurship, economics, and marketing minors. Collegiate athlete. Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business.

Scaling Up® Coach: Business scaling framework certification.

VEST EAP® Emotional Prosperity® Coach: Mental health, wellness, and emotional prosperity certification.