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Paul Britten

Major / Graduation Year:

    

Architecture '85

Residence:

    

Traverse City

Job Title / Description:

    

Owner/Founder, Britten Banners, Inc., one of the country’s leading banner manufacturers with clients including the Walt Disney Co., NASCAR, and the NBA

Early jobs or career experiences:

    

Early on, I sold General Motors an enormous Tigers-themed banner for $5,000 that draped across 10 stories of the automaker's Detroit headquarters to celebrate the Detroit Tigers 1984 World Series win.

Most Useful Career Skills I've learned:

    

Keep developing innovative products, such as Truckskin (slide-in banners that transforms trucks into rolling billboards) and MallPaper (life-sized photographs of stores printed on vinyl for vacant spaces in shopping centers).