I am an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, coach, facilitator, corporate director and investor. Over 30 years, I have started and grown a number of my own businesses in IT Training, Publishing, elearning and large scale systems, technology and process change.Since my first successful exit (2007), I have worked exclusively with founder/operators in growing their businesses. In many cases these leaders are the bottleneck in their own business. They simply reach their capacity to personally work in every area of their firm, from sales to delivery, accounts to marketing, etc. and they just get worn out and/or stuck. Many get to quite a large size before this occurs.Being the bottleneck has nothing to do with their abilities, their intelligence or their passion, but everything to do with learning how to leverage their strengths into the business to grow it to that next level.The businesses that I work with range from well-funded startups in the tech space with little revenue, to large established skilled service firms with just under $1B in revenue. Most organisations I work with are in the $5M to $100M revenue range. Regardless of size, if we work together, we can successfully grow the top and more importantly the bottom line of the business. We achieve this in a consistent way and free the founder/operator to work in the areas of their strengths, or to have more time for life. By doing this we also significantly increase the value of their business.If needed, I can also help in capital raising, preparing a business for an exit, and in some cases, co-investing alongside the founder/operator.I love what I do, and I am lucky to work with some amazing CEO/MD/Founders and their teams. But most of all I love seeing the people I work with learn how to successfully grow their firm to that next level. If you would like to grow your firm, and want to do it in a structured and manageable way, I would love chat to you. Just send me a LinkedIn Inmail.

Paul is currently winding down his direct work with entrepreneurs and their teams for s short period of time with his intent to develop a new way in which he can support even more entrepreneurs and businesses in the coming decades ahead; to learn quicker, achieve even better results and be better equipped to deal with the coming challenges that are unfolding globally. Entrepreneurs today need to operate in a rapidly changing world while tackling many new challenges, including sustainability, climate change, and the shifting demography in life and work.

Founded by Blake Proberts, and Sam Garnett, Acorn has grown from humble beginnings in Canberra to becoming a major player in the Performance LMS space throughout many countries in the world. The Acorn PLMS (performance learning management system) is a dynamic AI-powered platform for learning experiences synchronized to business performance.Blake and Sam realised that corporate learning was broken, and so developed Acorn as the antidote. It’s the only solution that guides learners step by step to master the specific capabilities of their roles that will accelerate organizational performance. And While a very complex thing to achieve, Acorn’s AI collects tangible evidence of behaviour change, creating a comprehensive record of individual learning experiences mapped to their impact on performance. Despite its humble beginning in Canberra, growth has been phenomenal for Acorn and it has grown to provide an amazing platform for many, many customers throughout ANZ, North America and Europe. I have been a business coach, advisory board member, and a believer in Blake, Sam and all the team at Acorn from it's early days. And have recently become an investor to back this conviction!

Founded in 2016, Access4 started as a vision from our Managing Director, Tim Jackson, to bring telecommunications and collaboration software to the MSP market.Coming from the managed services industry, Tim knew MSPs were best suited to sell voice solutions for small to medium businesses, but for any single MSP attempting to enter the market, the resources and cost requirements were impossibly high. Gathering a small group of talented and dedicated technical experts, the founders developed an automated, singular platform to sell, provision and invoice customers. Today, this platform is known as SASBOSS and offers product development with best of breed providers and end-to-end partner enablement to succeed in the market.From these beginnings and with 100% growth year on year, Access4 is the leading provider of enterprise communications to suit evolving technology and growing business needs.I have been a business coach, investor and director with Access4 since it's early days, and really love working with Tim and the amazing team at Access4.

Appointment and transition to new director structure for next stage of Fund growth.

The world needs to produce 60 per cent more food by 2050 to feed the planet. This is happening during a time of unprecedented resource constraints and climate change. Our vision is to help meet this challenge without compromising the future.It’s this challenge that brings us together.The Yield is an agricultural technology company on a mission to transform food and farming practices with scalable digital technology. ‍We use real-time data and AI to power our technology to solve real challenges at the farm level and throughout the food chain.Our solutions help customers to drive profits and sustainability, scale faster and reduce risk.The Yield has a highly-focused team combining leading engineers, data scientists, agriculturists and technologists. We have a deep commitment to open innovation, collaboration and diversity. I have been working with The Yield since its inception, and have seen it go through the various stages of growth. I have been proud to be a Business Coach, Director and investor and to work directly with Ros as the visionary CEO, and the capable and growing management team as we continue to scale up and make a significant and positive impact on the world.As of July 1st, 2024, The Yield has been strategically acquired by Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd.Moving forward, The Yield will be known as Yamaha Agriculture Australia, a subsidiary of Yamaha Agriculture Inc. So it’s business as usual in our dedication to delivering on our customers’ crop management goals and our product roadmap, and continuing our partnerships seamlessly.The Yield’s Precision Yield Management Platform will be at the heart of Yamaha’s new agricultural ecosystem strategy, underpinning our ongoing commitment to innovation.

In 2007, we were a small but ambitious team led by Con Zeritis, together we founded Industrie&Co with a simple vision. A technology company that would help build tomorrow’s best software-powered businesses.We began our journey tackling challenging projects with Macquarie Bank and National Australia Bank, with that we established early foundations in the financial services sector.With the support of our first strategic partner Amazon Web Services, we set out to build one of Australia’s first large-scale public cloud platforms. Our partnership today stands stronger than ever alongside others like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.As we ventured into new terrains, we expanded our Engineering roots to include Cloud, User Experience, Design Thinking and Agile Delivery, intertwining both innovation and engineering practices.We have since launched exciting trading and payment platforms, helped enterprises transform their digital experiences, and advised and invested in 20+ high-growth start-ups.From that small team, we are now a team of 150+ diverse thinkers, innovators, builders and leaders working across Asia Pacific with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore.Today, we embrace the same values and vision in building tomorrow’s best software-powered businesses.In May 2021, Industrie&Co was acquired by Accenture. We are excited by the next phase of our growth including the opportunity to drive innovation, for both our clients and our team.

This role is responsible for running the ACT Branch and go-to-market for Australian Federal Government. The ACT Branch has grown considerably during Paul's tenure in this position. During this time, a number of new technical service offerings have been successfully launched in this marketplace. And despite the current challenges in the current Federal Government market, the strategies and go-to-market focus that Paul has brought to the role have proved very successful.

Paul's role was to integrate and grow the Total Learn team nationally. The practice was doubled in size over a 2 year period and still continues to grow.

Total Learn was a specialist professional services firm which was founded in the ACT and grew to being one of Australia's largest and most effective providers of customised system and process training companies in large scale change programs across Federal & State Government and Large Corporate organisations.We successfully exited to Publicly listed (ASX) SMS Management & Technology

Paul provided training and training development services for IT based courses in Microsoft, Borland and Lotus products. This ranged from spreadsheet and word processing programs, through to database design and programming. During this time, Paul ran over 500 1 and 2 days courses for government and corporate organisations through Computer Power Education, Ferntree Computer Services, BHP IT, Computerland and several organisations directly. This time really honed Paul's curriculum development, writing and training delivery skills.