Meet The Authors
Ed “Skip” McLaughlin
Wyn Lydecker
Paul McLaughlin
Ed “Skip” McLaughlin
Ed is the founder of four businesses and is currently running Blue Sunsets LLC, a real estate and angel investment firm. He bootstrapped his first business, United Systems Integrators (USI) Corporation, a corporate real estate outsourcing firm, and grew it into an Inc. 500 company. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. In 2005, he sold USI to Johnson Controls, a Fortune 100 company, and at that point, became CEO of JCI’s Global Workplace Business for the Americas. A member of the Board of Governors for Tufts Medical Center, Ed founded its David E. Wazer Breast Cancer Research Fund. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees. Active in philanthropy, Ed lives with his wife in Connecticut and has three adult children.
Email: Ed@ThePurposeIsProfit.com
LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/EdSkipMcLaughlin
Twitter: @purposeisprofit
Wyn Lydecker
Wyn is the founder of Upstart Business Planning, where she works with entrepreneurs to develop plans that answer the questions investors ask most often. Previously, she was Managing Director of Business Plans International in New York and Co-Director of the Small Business Resource Center at Norwalk Community College. Wyn has an MBA in finance and marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She serves on the board of a local nonprofit she helped found, At Home In Darien. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and has two adult children.
Email: Wyn@ThePurposeIsProfit.com
LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/WynLydecker
Paul McLaughlin
Paul is an associate with Deloitte in the Financial Advisory Services Group in the Real Estate Consulting Practice. Previously, Paul served as vice president of Blue Sunsets LLC, where he was responsible for real estate projects and specific angel investments. He has a BA in mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross and an MBA from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business.
Email: Paul@ThePurposeIsProfit.com
LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/PaulPMcLaughlin