Paul Lightfoot

Paul Lightfoot is the General Manager of Patagonia Provisions. Paul is a serial entrepreneur who has been successfully running high-tech companies since he left his Wall Street law firm job in 1998.Paul is the former CEO of BrightFarms (formerly called Better Food Solutions), which designs, finances, builds and operates hydroponic greenhouse farms at grocery retailers, eliminating time, distance and costs from their produce supply chain. Previously, Paul was CEO of BSG, which owns and operates two integrated software businesses: AL Systems, a provider of solutions to improve the productivity of retailer distribution centers; and Mincron Software Systems, a provider of ERP solutions to distributors. Paul was the CEO of BSG or BSG's predecessor, AL Systems, since 2001. Before BSG, Paul was the founder and CEO of Foodline, a venture-backed software company that provided customer and reservations information technology to restaurants. Foodline’s primary investors included American Express, Zagat Survey and Ticketmaster (now IAC/InterActiveCorp). Prior to Foodline, Paul was a transactional attorney at the Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where he specialized in complex asset-backed securitization transactions, which ranged in size from $20m to $3b, for clients such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros. Paul has a B.A. from Lehigh and a J.D. from Fordham Law. Paul is Treasurer of the BOD of the Brennan Center for Justice. Paul lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and three children. Paul has been recognized by Chain Store Age magazine as a "Rising Star in Retail" in their annual 40 Under 40 awards, and is the 2011 winner of the Young President’s Organization CSR Award for Environmental Sustainable Business Practices.