Autor/-in: Paul Daniels

Paul Daniels is an entrepreneur, author, sector agnostic business innovator and facilitator specialising in developing viable and sustainable business models that can disrupt traditional markets and a seed investor. A true entrepreneur in every sense of the word, organising and directing any enterprise through considerable initiative and risk. Paul has started, scaled, and exited dozens of companies across diverse trades and industries and has a passion for innovation. Paul's career can be split into three distinct periods: Formative years - 1961 to 1996. Paul joined the Daniels' family food importing business working his way through all departments, and becoming Sales & Marketing Director, CEO and Chairman consecutively. He built the company into a major force in canned foods, dried fruit, coffee, and confectionary. S Daniels plc floated on the Main List of the LSE in 1986 and then refocused into value added chilled foods, acquiring several companies including New Covent Garden Soup and Johnsons Orange Juice. Entrepreneurial Years - 1996 to 2008. Paul founded businesses in traffic signage, outdoor media, self-storage, innovative car park construction, and modular key worker housing. Each of these companies was innovative, either influencing change to legislation, guaranteeing customer interaction, or disrupting traditional construction techniques. All were sold successfully to next generation management, except for the self-storage business, which is retained. Investor years - 2008 to date. Paul has been an enthusiastic Angel Investor, supporting the start-up economy through personal investment. Examples are Graze. com, where Paul represented Octopus VC and was Chairman of the Food Advisory Board, WeSwap. com, Money & Co and the Angel Investment Network, covering 83 countries, where Paul was Chairman, were some of the many investments. Paul founded Involved Investors in 2008 to further support founders through the introduction of investment opportunities to HNWs, Family Offices and the leading VC & PE funds. To learn about Paul's early years and what shaped his entrepreneurial life, read his books 'The Business Wizard' or 'How To Start A Business' and discover a practical, repeatable and successful systems for launching, growing and selling small businesses. Available in paperback and e-reader versions, they are guides for ordinary people building real businesses.