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Paris Corporation (ex-S. Walter)

Kurt Koloseike (CEO)

◆ Yes: Founder-Led to Institutional Platforms, Oct 21, 11:00am

LinkedIn intelDormant · last post Sep 2025
  • Sep 2025: announced a new role as President & CEO (headline now reads CEO, Paris Corporation)
  • 2021: NewSpring CEO Hall of Fame; launched digital enhancement capabilities

Use it: Not reachable via LinkedIn activity. Approach after his 11:00 panel or by email.

Why meet them

Multi-brand consumer products company whose brands run on separate websites, with a new CEO: brand fragmentation plus a fresh mandate.

What to say

"You took S. Walter through the Veritiv sale and you're now at Paris. When you institutionalize a founder-led company, do the systems come first or the people?"

Check first

Paris's owner or PE sponsor not found. Attendee list still shows S. Walter; he speaks as Paris CEO.

Research notes

Brands PrintWorks, Elementree, DocuGard, DocIt, Weego • pariscorp.com (WordPress) and myweego.com run separately • Homepage still names the previous CEO, so the site hasn't caught up • Took S. Walter through the Veritiv sale (2025)

Why the opener works

It builds on his panel topic and his own track record, so it's flattering and on-topic. A new CEO usually sets a 100-day systems agenda, and this lets him bring it up himself.

Tech stack deep diveScanned 14 Oct 2026
All accounts →
CRMNone detected
Marketing automationKlaviyo ×2 (separate accounts)
FragmentationHigh
PropertyCRMMarketing automationCMS / commerceSales & intent toolsEmail & workplace
pariscorp.comNone detectedKlaviyo; SendGridWordPress + WPBakery + WooCommerceNone seenMicrosoft 365; Paylocity (HR)
myweego.comNone detectedKlaviyo account VukJWb; SendGridShopify (Intelligems, Yotpo)None seenMicrosoft 365; GoDaddy mail CNAME

What it tells us

  • Two online stores on two different commerce platforms: WooCommerce on pariscorp.com and Shopify on myweego.com, each with its own Klaviyo.
  • Two web platforms, two Klaviyo setups, and no CRM in sight. Customer data lives in email tools, not a system of record.
  • A new CEO plus no CRM is the cleanest opening on the list: the first-CRM conversation.

Acquisitions and their stacks

No acquisitions found. Paris is family-owned: PrintWorks, DocuGard and DocIt were built in-house, and Weego was spun off in 2014. The add-ons people link to Kurt (LPI, Pulver, WholeStyle) were made by S. Walter, his previous company, which sold to Veritiv in 2025.

Wappalyzer.com cross-check

  • pariscorp.com New detail WordPress + WPBakery + WooCommerce, Klaviyo, SendGrid, Paylocity (HR). The corporate site runs its own store.
  • myweego.com Confirmed Shopify, Klaviyo, Yotpo and Klaviyo reviews.

How we scanned: each site was rendered in a headless browser (homepage plus up to three inner pages) and matched against the open-source Wappalyzer fingerprint set (7,600+ technologies), then cross-checked with public DNS: mail servers, SPF senders, domain-verification records and marketing subdomains (go., info., email.). Account IDs (HubSpot portal, Pardot, Klaviyo) show whether brands share one instance. Every account was also checked on Wappalyzer.com. Acquisitions come from press releases, SEC filings and trade press; each acquired company's own domain was put through the same scan. Back-office CRMs are mostly inferred from DNS, so treat "inferred" as strong evidence, not proof.