Paul has a passion for helping businesses and individuals grow and succeed. He recognises that every Executive has unique skills, experience and ambition. As a Mentor, he focuses on understanding their key objectives and working with them to achieve their goals. Paul enjoys using his Board and PLC experience to help clients navigate and balance both their careers and personal lives – he knows that businesses rely heavily on their leaders to set both the strategy and culture and that it can be a tough and lonely place at times. Paul recognises the importance of great teamwork and believes that every person and company has the potential to do ‘amazing things’ and he wants to help those who have the aspiration to do so.

Paul went straight from school to work at the London Stock Exchange before joining National Mutual life in 1978 where he worked for ten years in both investment and sales roles before joining Standard Life. Paul’s background was in marketing and sales before he went on to become the UK CEO and then UK and Europe CEO at Standard Life followed by an appointment to the main PLC Board. He has extensive experience in the Pensions, Savings and Investment markets as well as experience of both acquiring businesses and initiating start-ups. Paul retired in 2017 as the UK and Europe CEO of a FTSE 100 PLC with 1.2 million shareholders and 4.5 million customers in 45 countries. Now a Mentor at Merryck, he finds helping executives explore their options hugely rewarding and is excited by the opportunity to help others achieve great things. Paul is also an independent non-executive director at Quilter PLC and a non-executive director of its subsidiary Quilter Financial Planning.

Paul is married with 3 children. He enjoys playing cricket, golf, walking and also works with a personal trainer 3 times a week. He really values spending time with his family – something he committed to doing more of when he started working with his own mentor back in 2010.