Veteran college athletic administrator Paul Bubb has joined the Eastern Illinois athletic staff as the Panthers Associate AD for Development.  In that role Bubb will oversee both development and corporate sponsorship.
 
Bubb brings more than 40 years of experience at the NCAA Division I level including time serving as the athletic director at Cal State Northridge, Idaho State, Maine and Western Illinois.  He worked at WIU for close to nine years starting as the Executive Director of Development before serving as the Leathernecks Athletic Director for four years. 
 
He has been a proven fundraiser at each of his previous collegiate stops with a reputation of building relationships with both local and national constituents for each of the institutions that he has served at.    
 
An Illinois native, Bubb has spent time across the nation during his collegiate career including a nearly six year stop as the Associate Athletic Director at Murray State when the program was a member of the Ohio Valley Conference.  His additional stops include time at Southern Illinois, Drake, Cal Poly Pomona and Boise State.
 
He is a graduate of Monmouth College in Illinois with a master's from Western Illinois.