Paul R. Sullivan is a member of Michigan's Executive Education faculty. Paul received his B.S. in Engineering and his MBA from the University of Michigan. He has also completed the Program for Health Systems Management presented by Harvard University's Schools of Business, Public Health, and Medicine.

In addition to teaching in the University of Michigan Executive Education Programs, Paul was the Founder and Managing Director of Global Partners, Inc., an international business development consulting firm. With 35 years of experience in research, management consulting, and management education, Mr. Sullivan frequently travels to Europe, Asia, and Latin America to help corporations develop business development plans and expand their world markets. He has worked in 45 countries and developed, and presented seminars on global management, business-to-business marketing and sales to thousands of managers from over 100 countries.

Before founding Global Partners, Paul was a Senior Vice President of Harbridge House, Inc. an international management consulting firm, and a member of its Management Board and Strategic Planning Committee.

Paul has worked with many Fortune "Global 500" companies including ABB, Abbott Laboratories, ALSTOM, AT&T, Areva, Boston Scientific, General Electric, General Dynamics, McDonald's, Raytheon, Rockwell International, STMicroelectronics, United Technologies, Volvo and Xerox as well as government organizations including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Departments of Defense, Energy and Health and Human Services.

He has written numerous articles including"Strategies for Playing the Global Game," "Six Traits of Global Managers," "Are You Developing Global Leaders?" and is co-author of the book "Measuring Hospital Inflation."

Paul teaches Winning Global Business, Managing in a Global Organization and Project Management for Global Leaders in the Ross School's Executive Education program.