PAUL J. BATTAGLIA: A Knack for
Numbers
Paul
J. Battaglia's mother, Elaine Leinung, likes to say that
her son was "born at age 40."
Even as a preschooler, Mr.
Battaglia, who was actually 22, had a knack for numbers.
How else to explain a 4-year-old tallying the correct
amount of change due even before the cashier at the
grocery could? It happened a lot, Ms. Leinung said, and
by age 10, he was balancing checkbooks.
"I would have such difficulty
with it and complain," Ms. Leinung said. "It all started
with his Commodore 64 computer when he was 9. He found
his niche: numbers."
By his senior year at Regis High
School in Manhattan, Mr. Battaglia had earned an
internship with Marsh & McLennan. After he graduated
from the State University of New York at Binghamton, his
internship turned into a position as a risk consultant.
He was so proud of his job on the 100th floor of Tower 1
that he posted pictures of his office and his view of the
Brooklyn Bridge (his home borough) on his Web site,
Battaglia.org.
One snapshot was mostly gray. "Cloudy day!" he wrote
underneath.
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