An engineer at heart, Paul brings over 30 years of innovation and commercialization experience to this role. He started his career in the petro-chemical industry designing and commercializing innovative pressure vessels for Crane Co and then consumer goods for Dimplex.
He then moved into economic development with Invest NI in 2005 and held several programme manager roles in the challenging ‘idea to commercialization’ space. A respected practitioner of technology transfer he designed and developed a regional ‘proof of concept’ programme specifically aimed at Northern Ireland’s market failures.