Paul Atkinson

Background

About Paul Atkinson

Paul is a Founding Partner and active investor with Par Equity, one of the UK's top performing Venture Capital firms, supporting high grow technology businesses in the North of the UK. Previously, he was founder of Direct Resources Ltd and RecruitmentScotand, both of which achieved successful exits. He also founded Head Resourcing Ltd, which evolved into the Global Talent business, Taranata Group, following the acquisition of Change Recruitment Group. He continues to Chair this business. Paul also provides guidance and advice to other business Founders. In particular he is Chair of PR & Cummunications business, Clark Communications and also the fast growing Digital Transformation business, xDesign. He is also Chair of Crowdx, which a private capital markets platform. His pro-bono activities include being the Chair of Converge, who aim to accelerate company creation within Scottish Universities and Chair of the Cyber & Fraud Centre Scotland, providing cyber and fraud support to Scottish organisations. He is also a Chair of the Scottish Forestry Trust. Paul is a Manchester University Physics graduate and a visiting Professor at Edinburgh Napier University Business School.