Paul Maguire brings his years of family and individual entrepreneurial, business experience as CEO and President of Riverdale Global. Paul began his career at fifteen years old as an extruder operator in a plastics facility. Working for Maguire Products, Inc. (his father’s company), he helped develop plastics material dosing equipment and process software. In 1991, Paul pioneered the development of communication networks for plastics equipment, and currently holds several patents to monitor, control, and document in real-time all material consumption in a plastic processing facility.
Paul established Green Bridge Station Technologies (GBS) in 1995, which specialized in custom computer software, website development, and network design. He also developed unique custom software for the Lottery industry which picks the winning numbers and builds animations for broadcast. This lottery software is currently used by the majority of state lotteries in the US, and national lotteries around the world.
In 2006, Paul began working with Riverdale with a focus on creating new technologies to manufacture and process liquid color in a sustainable and economical way.
Paul has Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Albright College, and received a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.