Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Paul is passionate about mentoring management teams that are focussed on building outstanding businesses. Paul is a director of Wesfarmers Ltd and a Commissioner of the Australian Football League (AFL). He is on the board of a number of not for profit organisations including the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Melbourne, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation, the Mount Scopus College Foundation and the P&S Bassat Foundation. He was designated as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2009.

Paul co-founded SEEK in 1997 and served as CEO and then as Joint CEO from 1997-2011. SEEK is the world’s largest online employment business and in 13 years went from a start up to one of Australia’s top 100 companies with a market capitalisation of $2.5b. SEEK has operations in numerous markets throughout Australasia, Asia and Latin and South America.

SEEK has consistently been ranked as one of Australia’s best employers over the past decade.Paul started his career as a lawyer and practiced for 6 years working on a range of corporate transactions.Paul holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Melbourne.