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Paul Catipon is president and chief technology officer of Netpro Communications, a full-service IT consulting firm in New York City that supports small and medium-sized businesses; the firm is certified as a Minority Business Enterprise and a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. He came to it after a career in corporate IT, serving as assistant vice president and IT manager at First Federal Bank of California and, in the 1990s, network manager for the Brooklyn/Queens Catholic Medical Centers. He holds a bachelor’s in computer engineering from California State University, Long Beach, an MBA in telecommunications from Keller Graduate School of Management, and the CISSP credential. Catipon serves on the Economy of Communion commission of New Humanity and is active in the Focolare Movement. Rather than practicing EoC principles alone, he has worked to draw other companies in, helping build the growing network of EoC businesses and professionals in the New York area.