Paul Price, founder and principal

Paul’s passion is working with people, helping them to succeed in business and to thrive personally and professionally. Along with a masters in management and personal coaching, Paul is a chartered accountant with further qualifications in leadership, digital marketing, strategy, corporate finance, group facilitation and in writing. He is certified with the British Psychological Society to use occupational and personality tests and is a certified CBT practitioner.

Paul’s coaching is informed by over thirty years of management and business development experience gained at best-practice multinationals such as Tetra Pak, Coca Cola, BAT, and BDO, and in three countries. Paul has led major change initiatives and has managed large teams in roles spanning from department head to managing director. He has also been director on the Boards of Directors of seven companies and has chaired three.

Since 1998, initially as a venture capitalist and later as an investor/entrepreneur, and as a business mentor and coach, his work has focused primarily on helping entrepreneurs launch their start-ups, and on helping early stage businesses grow to maturity.
Paul’s work with entrepreneurs is grounded by a decade of experience in venture capital. Initially working as an investment manager and later as managing director of an investment fund with US$ 0.5 billion under management in direct equity investments. Paul has led significant investments in retail, hospitality, in manufacturing and in the banking sectors, closely supporting management teams in both independent and proprietary ventures from start-up through to growth stage when the investments were successfully exited.