Paul Ernst Giese died on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at Massachusetts General Hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer. Born in Seattle, Washington on May 20, 1937 to Paul J. and Anne Giese, he graduated with honors from the Lakeside School in Seattle and was a member of the varsity football, basketball, and tennis teams. He received a M.B.A. and B.S.E.E. from the University of Washington, Seattle. There he met his wife, Lucretia Hoover, then on the staff of the Seattle Art Museum. They were married on July 23, 1966 and settled in Lincoln, MA.

In his professional life as a management consultant with Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA, he was a senior member of the Information and Telecommunications Section and directed its Financial Industries Technology practice. Paul specialized in electronic banking early in its evolution. He and his practice provided strategic planning, technology management, risk assessment, and implementation consulting for twenty-five years. In this capacity, he traveled widely in the U.S. and abroad, especially in the Middle East, Mexico and South America. Travel, in addition to music, remained one of his passions. His Swiss, German, and English relatives, to whom he was deeply attached, provided additional destinations for recreational travel.

A love of the out-of-doors also shaped his life. He made a solo ascent of the Matterhorn, and two ascents of Mt. Rainier, the first at the age of fifteen with Seattle mountaineers Jim and Lou Whittaker. He was also an accomplished skier, tennis player and member of the Seattle Tennis Club, and became a skilled woodsman, chopping wood for his house and occasionally clearing trails for Lincoln's Conservation Commission.

His energy found outlets in volunteer service for the Town of Lincoln, as member and later co-chair of the Finance Committee, Commissioner on the Water Board, Board member of the Friends of the Council on Aging and Friends of Modern Architecture/Lincoln. He was a strong supporter of modern architecture, stimulated by the work of his father-in-law, architect Henry B. Hoover, who designed the house he shared with his wife.

He is survived by his wife; sisters Marilyn (and Jim) Sherman, Union, WA and Gretchen (and Steven) Ramsdell, Bremerton, WA, and brother Erich (and Sue) Giese, Richland, WA; brothers-in-law Henry B. Hoover, Jr., Bedford, MA, David Harrah, Studio City, CA, and John M. Norman, Sheffield, England; nieces, Lucretia (and Dan) Ray, Liverpool, England, and Ursula Norman, Manchester, England; and nephews, Shane (and Ning) Harrah, Pleasanton, CA, Mark (and Ana) Harrah, Valley Village, CA, Paul (and Kathy) Rey, Alameda, CA, Steven (and Michelle) Ramsdell, Burke, VA, and Richard (and Amy) Ramsdell, Fairfax, VA.

Donations in his memory may be made to the Hoover Book Fund, in care of Friends of Modern Architecture/Lincoln, P.O. 348, Lincoln, MA 01773 or Dr. Amir Fathi, Bone Marrow transplant/Leukemia Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Zero Emerson Place, Suite 118, Boston, MA 02114. A service celebrating his life is planned.