Paul Hanley is a senior vice president and manager of the firm's Marketing & Corporate Communications Department. Mr. Hanley has more than 18 years of marketing communications experience and has been involved with elections in Colorado and nationally for the past 14 years. During the past two years, he has shifted almost all of his professional time to election-related work.

Mr. Hanley has been involved with more than 50 successful bond and mill levy election campaigns and serves as the lead in-house election specialist on all Colorado campaigns. He typically oversees campaign budgeting and communications timelines, campaign messaging, direct mail development, print advertising, and a host of other campaign-related service. During the last election cycle, he played a lead role on the successful $89 million Thompson School District bond question as well as the firm's other successful bond and mill levy override campaigns in 2005. Prior to joining George K. Baum & Company, Mr. Hanley was employed with a management consulting firm in Michigan involved with public sector consulting projects and venture capital efforts. He was also previously employed in the Finance Department of Colorado National Bank in Denver. Mr. Hanley holds an M.S. (Marketing) from the University of Colorado and a B.G.S. from the University of Michigan.