Brian Paul

Co-Founder & President

Brian graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in Business/Computer Science. After graduating Brian joined The Boeing Company as an programmer/analyst where he worked on a large multi-divisional development project to electronically store and maintain the baseline specifications for the 737, 747 and 777 airplane programs. After Boeing, Brian joined Microsoft as a Sr. Systems Engineer in the Central US region evangelizing Microsoft’s development tools, database and operating systems directions and strategies to enterprise customers. From there, Brian moved on to Microsoft Consulting Services and spent his last few years at Microsoft helping enterprise customers design and deploy custom IT solutions.

Brian was first introduced to the Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC) ministry through his good friend and Co-Founder Bob Holbrook. Bob came to Brian in early 1999 with a need to help a local PRC in the Dallas area streamline the process of recording, tracking and reporting services provided to clients. After hearing about the life affirming services PRCs provide to men and woman around the globe facing unplanned pregnancies, Brian was eager to help out. Shortly after starting work on the project, it became clear that many centers had the same need as the Dallas center. In the fall of 1999, eKYROS.com was formed and the first version CenterPiece was released soon after. Today, through God’s grace, our team continues to grow serving over a thousand PRC offices world wide. Every day Brian feels blessed to work with such a great team and to serve our Lord through eKYROS.com by providing such a critical service to life affirming PRCs.

Brian and his wife Paula (yes, Paula Paul) live in Southlake, TX with their two daughters Regan and Peyton. When not working, Brian enjoys spending time with family and friends, being a volleyball Dad, and playing golf.

 

Kristen Paul

Director of Service

Inspired by her Brother Brian’s passion for this ministry, Kristen joined the eKyros team in January of 2013. “It’s a pleasure to be a part of a team that not only provides a great product with timely support, but is also equally invested in the client’s success through this ministry!”

Previously, Kristen held a Sales Trainer role with a national electronics retailer, and spent 6 years as a Sales Director for a national home builder. She then ventured into a Director of Sales position with a small real estate investment firm in her home town which led to her acquiring her real estate license. Kristen spent many years as an agent specializing in investment properties and commercial property management.

Making her home in Bellingham, WA…Kristen loves spending time with friends & family including her sweet dog ‘Newton’ and an active 7 year old girl named ‘Miranda’ that Kristen has volunteered with for the past 4 years. Kristen especially enjoys spending time outdoors at the local parks, beaches, and islands in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

  

Carlye Birdwell

Designer/Developer

Carlye Birdwell is a graduate from Texas A&M with degrees in both Management Information Systems and Finance. Upon graduation Carlye accepted a position with a consulting firm and had the opportunity to implement technical solutions to solve complex business problems for companies in many different industries. After several years as a consultant, Carlye moved on to accept a position with American Airlines Corporate Headquarters were she served as project manager and technical lead in the B2B/B2E vertical. It was during her time at American Airlines that God changed the professional direction of Carlye’s life and called her to put her technical and managerial skills to use in the pro-life ministry.

Carlye first became involved at her local PRC as a volunteer client advocate and later as the Executive Director. During her time at the center Carlye was able to utilize her previous skills and training to leverage the power of the CenterPiece software to increase center productivity, implement new processes, and improve client advocate training, allowing the center to spend less time on administrative processes and more time serving clients.

Carlye joined the eKYROS.com team in 2003. Carlye has served eKYROS.com in several roles and is currently serving behind the scenes in design and development. Carlye is blessed and honored to serve PRCs in her current role. Believing fully in eKYROS.com’s mission, Carlye counts her time at eKYROS.com as a “God-given favorable opportunity”.

Carlye and her husband, Grant, live outside of Austin with their two sons.

 

Ashleigh Guilmette

Account Manager

Ashleigh’s passion for the PRC ministry was sparked as a child through her Grandmother who served as a director at their local Pregnancy center for many years. At the age of 18 she began serving at the same center; first as a consultant, then as a receptionist, and finally as an Administrative Assistant. She first became familiar with CenterPiece in 2005 when moving their center from an outdated manual tracking program to CenterPiece. She found this not only streamlined the process of data entry, but saved subsequent time, allowing her to begin seeing walk-in clients again. Ashleigh is dedicated to the calling Christ has placed upon her heart for this ministry and honored to serve eKYROS centers.

She lives in the Yakima Valley of Washington state and joined the eKYROS team in 2009 after resigning from her center. Ashleigh enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, traveling, and playing board games.

 

Dolores Crawford

Account Manager

Dolores believes that God had a plan and calling on her life when she was in the womb of her Birthmother who bravely chose adoption for her as a single teenage mother. Dolores went on to experience being a single teenage mom herself and knows how different things would have been with the support of a pregnancy center for guidance.

When her church held a LIFE event in 2006, Dolores immediately began asking God where she could use her ashes for His glory and He led her to the local Pregnancy Center where she began volunteering. She was soon hired on full time as a client advocate and quickly moved into the role of Medical Services Coordinator. As the clinic grew, Dolores was instrumental in creating, developing and implementing “Support Link” as the centers solution to fostering and maintaining relationships with the clients while educating and supporting them throughout pregnancy and parenting. In supporting clients, Dolores had the highest changed mind rate for adoption at her center. She resigned from her current position to join the eKYROS.com team in 2015 and is certain that the calling on her life to support all aspects of the pregnancy centers will be fulfilled in this new role.

Dolores is a native of Abilene Texas, where she resides with her husband, Kevin and youngest of 3 daughters, Lindsey. She has one precious grandson and another on the way in April ’15. In her spare time she enjoys cooking for others, traveling, interior decorating and shopping.