A futurist’s real job isn’t prediction - it’s noticing. Reading the signals already in the room before they become headlines, and turning them into decisions you can make today.
Paul founded Gorilla Technology in 1997 and went on to launch New Zealand’s first social network - the start of a long habit of being early to what matters in Kiwi tech. In the decades since he has built Gorilla into a technology and media group, and become one of the country’s most recognisable voices on technology and business.
He hosts the NZ Tech Podcast and the NZ Business Podcast, and is a regular, plain-English commentator across RNZ, TVNZ’s 1 News, Newstalk ZB, the NZ Herald, Stuff, ThreeNews, ABC News, Sky News and Reuters. When a newsroom needs the future explained without the hype, they call Paul.
His work lives where entrepreneurship, deep technical knowledge and decades of business experience meet. The through-line is a single commitment: helping individuals, organisations and New Zealand as a whole succeed through technology - while staying clear-eyed about the risks, from cybersecurity to trust and the human cost of getting it wrong.
