Jim Paidas
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April 24, 1956 Stamford, Connecticut |
| Occupation | Licensing agent |
Jim Paidas (born April 24, 1956 in Stamford, Connecticut) is an American brand-building executive and intellectual property licensing agent. He was also the drummer in the 1980s Rock bands Ambush and Rough Cut.
Paidas founded Promotion Sales, Ltd. in 1982, a Connecticut-based advertising and promotional merchandise company, working with clients: American Tobacco Co., Nine West, Liz Claiborne, Kenneth Cole Productions, and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
Paidas assisted the WWE in developing their live-venue merchandise program with the use of retail merchandise, premiums, and promotional marketing tools. He worked with them on the following productions: WrestleMania, Smackdown, Raw, Royal Rumble and King of the Ring. He also was instrumental in developing a line of merchandise for WWE's XFL Arena Football League.
In 2004, Paidas founded Paidas Management, an intellectual property licensing management company, and worked with the Discovery/TLC reality-series Orange County Choppers as a licensing agent and built the brand into a retail licensing juggernaut with product available worldwide through a group of over seventy licensees.
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