Paul Heyman
Paul Heyman was born on September 11, 1965, in Westchester County, New York, the son of Sulamita ("née" Szarf; 1928–2009) and Richard S. Heyman (1926–2013), a prominent personal injury attorney and World War II veteran. He is of Jewish descent; his mother was a Holocaust survivor who suffered through experiences in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and the Łódź Ghetto. By age 11, he was running a mail order business selling celebrity and sports memorabilia from his home. While still a teenager, he fast-talked his way backstage at a World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) event at Madison Square Garden as a photojournalist. He was paid by the company for several of his photographs. He graduated from Edgemont High School. He attended SUNY Purchase and worked on-air as an opinionated, controversial host at SUNY's radio station and the WARY-FM New York radio station for Westchester Community College; in 1985, at the age of 19, he became a photographer, then a producer and promoter for the New York City nightclub Studio 54.
Paul S. Goodman
Paul S. Goodman was born in 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Trinity College (Connecticut), where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1959, from Dartmouth College, where he received a Master of Business Administration degree in 1961, and from Cornell University, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in organizational psychology in 1966. He later joined the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business where he became the Richard M. Cyert Professor of Organizational Psychology.