Paul Shain is senior vice president and executive committee member of CDW, a FORTUNE 500 company and a leading provider of technology products and services for business, government and education.
Shain also serves as chief executive officer of Madison, Wisconsin-based Berbee Information Networks Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW Corporation, acquired in October 2006. At CDW, Shain is responsible for leading the Berbee business and jointly overseeing all aspects of the transition of Berbee into CDW.
Shain joined Berbee in 2000 as president, and was appointed chief executive officer in 2005. Prior to joining Berbee, Shain was managing director and director of research for Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. At Baird, he was the senior IT services analyst and was responsible for the overall supervision and administration of Baird's equity research efforts.
Shain graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance and a Master of Business Administration in finance. In addition, Shain holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He serves on Executive Partner Councils for both IBM Corporation and Cisco Systems. In addition, Shain is on a number of charitable boards associated with education. He has served on the Deans Advisory Board of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, and the Madison Area Technical College Foundation an organization dedicated to financial scholarships for students who otherwise would not be able to attend school. |