Paul Tidwell
Chief Digital Officer | CTO | Technology Executive • Digital Transformation & AI Strategy • P&L Leadership • M&A Integration • Building High-Performance Teams at Scale
- Role
- VP, Technology & Ai at Praxent
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Paul Tidwell
Technology executive with 20+ years driving digital transformation and enterprise growth across financial services, healthcare, and SaaS. Currently President of Digital at geniant, where I architect comprehensive technology strategies that deliver measurable business outcomes for Fortune 500 clients.Core Expertise:→ P&L Leadership & Growth: Scaled revenue from $16M to $160M+ while managing $25M+ annual P&L→ M&A Strategy & Integration: Led technical due diligence and post-merger integration across 7+ acquisitions→ AI & Digital Transformation: Architecting enterprise AI strategies and data governance for major airlines and pharmaceutical companies→ Global Delivery Leadership: Developed offerings, hiring strategy, and talent management for 400+ developers and engineers across 9 global offices, ensuring delivery quality and client satisfactionKey Achievements:→ Grew technology services revenue by 10x while establishing market leadership position→ Led 3-year $25M digital transformation for MUFG/Union Bank, transitioning from project to capability operating model→ Sourced and evaluated $30M in acquisition targets, driving non-organic growth strategyI believe AI-native companies and those who use AI effectively will create major competitive advantages and outpace their competition quickly. The most impactful technology solutions emerge when you combine deep technical expertise with clear business strategy and exceptional team leadership. Whether it\'s implementing AI-native enterprises, modernizing legacy systems, or scaling delivery capabilities globally, I focus on creating sustainable competitive advantages through technology.Considering board positions, advisory roles, and executive opportunities with startups, growth-stage companies, and Fortune 500/public companies where digital transformation and technology leadership drive enterprise value. Let\'s connect to explore how we can shape the future of technology together.
Experience
VP, Technology & Ai
Oct 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US
At Praxent, I lead our ongoing initiative to develop our AI-enabled Software SDLC in order to deliver optimal value for our clients, our AI-product enablement offerings supporting our client\'s needs to embed safe, consistent, cutting-edge AI technologies into their GTM, and a revolutionary AI-powered platform modernization team to migrate legacy systems to modern architectures and languages. We unlock the capabilities of frontier models and open source solutions, giving our clients the support and confidence to blaze forward and build bigger moats.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
BS, Computer Science
1995 — 1999
Skills
- Moq
- UI/UX
- Mobile Applications
- Javascript
- Jquery
- Web Applications
- Linq
- Tfs
- Unit Testing
- C
- Software Design
- Scalability
- Design Patterns
- Software Engineering
- Sql Server
- Windows Azure
- Application Architecture
- C++
- Cloud Computing
- Distributed Systems
- Software Development
- Alm
- Scrum
- Agile Methodologies
- Team Foundation Server
- Apis
- Asp.net
- Json
- Wcf
- Css
- Wpf
- UX
- Silverlight
- Html5
- C#
- .net
- Multithreading
- Web Services
- Technical Leadership
- Xml
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