Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Paul Devlin is based in Mercia's Edinburgh office, and is building a team in Scotland to increase Mercia's deal flow, providing the company with new and exciting investment opportunities.

Paul has a strong track record as an entrepreneur and supporter of early stage businesses and has a wealth of expertise in market and technology assessment, academic and industrial collaborations, company formation and IP commercialisation.

Paul has worked in innovative technical and commercial environments throughout his 16 year career, making the transition from an engineer, patent holding researcher and company founder to a commercially focused senior programme manager, consultant and advisor.

Paul worked at Scottish Enterprise from 2009 to 2011 as a Senior Programme Manager, where he performed an extended ITI role which included commercialisation, research portfolio management and business process integration implemented to PRINCE2 and MSP guidelines.

From there, he worked at New Media Partners as a Senior Consultant, before moving on to the University of Edinburgh, first as a Senior Company Formation Executive, then as a Student Company Formation Manager.