Paul Gollash

CEO, Entrepreneur, Operator, Board member

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Angel Investor
2019
Dwellsy is a site for residential home rentals, built on the radical concept that true, organic search in a free eco-system creates more value than the pay-to-play model embraced by all of the current rental listing services. Renters should be able to find ALL of the rentals, all in ONE place. They should be able to trust that a listing is not fraudulent. And they should be able to quickly distill down to rentals that meet their preferences -- not be driven toward irrelevant listings from paid placement. Owners and Managers should be able to list and lease their vacant units for free. Not free with an asterisk. Free. (You can never create true, organic search on a play-to-play model.) We are on a mission to transform home rental market for everyone involved. Come join us!
Angel Investor
2015
Retail brands have had a supply-driven mindset for far too long. The result: garment production has more than doubled in the last decade while the fashion market value has increased by less than 17%. This reliance on increasingly inefficient inventory volumes to drive profits has led to eroding margins while also putting brands at odds with changing consumer expectations regarding sustainable practices. There is a better way. It starts with creating products that people love. By reducing the waste generated by overproduction, brands unlock profit growth that’s decoupled from costly growth in inventory levels. It is time for brands to shift to a demand-driven mindset with the customer at the heart of every decision. MakerSights is the leading Voice of Consumer platform purpose-built for consumer insights and testing apparel, footwear, accessories, and more. Throughout the value chain – from driving category strategies to increasing SKU productivity and identifying new category investment opportunities – MakerSights empowers brands to make consumer data-informed decisions that improve margins, increase profitability, and reduce waste – wasted time, money, and valuable natural resources. The world’s most iconic brands, including New Balance, Champion, and Madewell, trust MakerSights to enable product creation, merchandising, and consumer insights teams to understand target consumers via easy-to-use dashboards and data analytics so they can create more products that people will love – and less of what they don’t.
Experience · 5 entries
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2020
Founder, Board Director
Nov 2020
Voxy offers language training that meets business needs with job-specific programs to increase productivity, foster collaboration, and unlock peoples potential. Since its foundation in 2010, Voxy has supported corporate customers in over 150 countries with access to live language coaching led by certified teachers, and an extensive library of role-specific courses that fill crucial soft and technical skill gaps.
late stageE-learning
2019
Angel Investor
2019
Dwellsy is a site for residential home rentals, built on the radical concept that true, organic search in a free eco-system creates more value than the pay-to-play model embraced by all of the current rental listing services. Renters should be able to find ALL of the rentals, all in ONE place. They should be able to trust that a listing is not fraudulent. And they should be able to quickly distill down to rentals that meet their preferences -- not be driven toward irrelevant listings from paid placement. Owners and Managers should be able to list and lease their vacant units for free. Not free with an asterisk. Free. (You can never create true, organic search on a play-to-play model.) We are on a mission to transform home rental market for everyone involved. Come join us!
2015
Angel Investor
2015
Retail brands have had a supply-driven mindset for far too long. The result: garment production has more than doubled in the last decade while the fashion market value has increased by less than 17%. This reliance on increasingly inefficient inventory volumes to drive profits has led to eroding margins while also putting brands at odds with changing consumer expectations regarding sustainable practices. There is a better way. It starts with creating products that people love. By reducing the waste generated by overproduction, brands unlock profit growth that’s decoupled from costly growth in inventory levels. It is time for brands to shift to a demand-driven mindset with the customer at the heart of every decision. MakerSights is the leading Voice of Consumer platform purpose-built for consumer insights and testing apparel, footwear, accessories, and more. Throughout the value chain – from driving category strategies to increasing SKU productivity and identifying new category investment opportunities – MakerSights empowers brands to make consumer data-informed decisions that improve margins, increase profitability, and reduce waste – wasted time, money, and valuable natural resources. The world’s most iconic brands, including New Balance, Champion, and Madewell, trust MakerSights to enable product creation, merchandising, and consumer insights teams to understand target consumers via easy-to-use dashboards and data analytics so they can create more products that people will love – and less of what they don’t.
2009
Principal, Leisure and Hospitality
Jan 2009
At Virgin, we’re all about creating unique customer experiences, challenging the status quo and championing people and the planet. For five decades, in five business sectors and on five continents, our purpose is to change business for good. The home of Virgin is Virgin Management – supporting the Branson family and the growth of the Virgin brand by developing and nurturing valuable Virgin businesses around the world. Virgin Management works alongside all the different Virgin companies and their teams around the world. We have interests spanning travel & leisure, health & wellness, music & entertainment, telecoms & media, financial services and space. Each of those individual Virgin businesses has its own ways of working, but we are all united by a shared culture and purpose. ​ Virgin Management also works alongside Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, and is home to Virgin Start Up, a not-for-profit organisation that delivers Start Up Loans, mentoring and other support to entrepreneurs in the UK.
2005
Senior Associate, Consumer and Media
Jan 2005
From strategy to execution. We help our clients to be visionary in their ambition, and pragmatic in their realization Many strategies fail due to a lack of effective execution. At Strategy&, we work with our clients to solve their toughest problems by coming up with a strategy that is executable – defined by clear choices and a strong vision for the future. We have the required expertise and work hand-in-hand with our colleagues from the PwC network. The result: reliable strategy consulting – from initial analysis to measurable results and sustainable outcomes. Driven by a spirit of innovation and guided by pragmatism, a professional attitude, empathy, and a strong sense of responsibility. This is how we make strategy real at Strategy&.