Paul Bellows

Schooled in: Bachelor of Arts: Religious Studies, Literary Theory – University of Manitoba
Outside Yellow Pencil: Writing/performing folk-pop music and making feature films. Playing hockey and soccer, skiing and kayaking
Average daily coffee intake: Feels ill with fewer than 1 or more than 4 cups of coffee. Average is 2.3. 

Paul has been working on Yellow Pencil since the mid-1990s, but it wasn't called Yellow Pencil until the end of 1996. After graduating with a lofty but impractical degree focusing on literary criticism of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, he began a career as a voyageur-songwriter. He recorded several critically acclaimed records as he rode the Greyhound from depot to depot. Non-stop bus travel is terrible on one's muscular-skeletal health, however, so he slowly transitioned to new media and marketing, starting with a position heading up the North American sales team for the CD-ROM division of Peter Gabriel's Real World Records.

The day that everyone stopped buying CD-ROMs was the day before the day that Paul became a full-time Internet marketing practitioner, which barely preceded the day that he took a position as Webmaster for the legendary Alberta radio network CKUA, and led their award-winning web transformation project. Following that, and a year as the Website Editor at the Capital Health Authority, he officially closed the chapter in his life wherein he could blame others for his mistakes, and founded the Yellow Pencil we know and love.