Third person bio
With 15 years of International experience as an advisor within the Digital Industry, Paul is a published authority on the architecture and future of the Web, board member on international and regulatory bodies and a successful entrepreneur and owner of multiple businesses. He founded Segala - the industry’s most revered provider of Web standards compliance testing, which generated £1.6m in year one and was profitable within months. He also founded Wubud, a mobile social network that secured early-stage funding from Bebo Founder, Paul Birch.
Paul was one of the first AOL employees in 1995 - as a core member of the new technologies team. From 2006-2008 Paul served as Chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), the longest established association for the digital industry.
Paul has been instrumental in the creation and outreach of Web and mobile industry standards worldwide. He is one of the original founding sponsors of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative and helped to instigate the formation of the W3C’s first incubator project; which recently became the industry standard for certification/content classification - replacing PICS, the standard currently in use by Microsoft Internet Explorer for filtering content on the Web. With the odd exception, his speaking gigs are now restricted to hot countries.
