Paul Hudson is a retired advertising CEO and co-founder of the West Bloomfield Knit Club, an "elders" discussion group dedicated to solving human problems and bettering U.S. politics and society. A community activist, he has logged eons on many public school, hospital, banking, industry and non-profit boards. Paul and his one and only wife enjoy the exploits and shudder to the dilemmas of 18 grandchildren and live on a colonial era farmstead (1802) in Upstate NY.