Paul spent his corporate career with large multinational specialty B2B companies like Akzo Nobel, Ingredion and ICI. He spent 7 years in Asia Pacific in Head of Strategy and Director roles based in Bangkok and Singapore. These roles were responsible for rapid growth business units ranging in size from new fledgling opportunities to divisions turning over hundreds of millions of dollars across the food, chemical, pulp and paper and medical component industries.

Paul is a strategy expert and author of the book Xcelerate, which is the first book to show how disruption can be achieved using business model innovation. Xcelerate is written from an Australian perspective and contains research on the longevity of over 5000 Australian ASX 200 listed companies over the past 40 years.

Since exiting his corporate career in 2012 , Paul has owned and run three management consulting businesses specializing in business turn-arounds, financial performance and M&A deals. He has facilitated strategy workshops with hundreds of CEOs and Board members, and become a conference speaker. He also owns a Food manufacturing business.

His passion is to help organisations achieve superior governance, better financial performance, faster growth and become more valuable in a world with an ongoing demand for adaptation to myriad market forces like climate change, technology advancement and shifting economic trends.

He holds an MBA from the prestigious University of Chicago, where he achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA. He also holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.