Paul Adams - CEO & Founder

Since embarking upon his technology commercialisation career in the late 1990s, Paul has worked with some of New Zealand’s, and the world’s, leading businesses.

Before founding EverEdge IP in 2003, Paul served as Intellectual Property Manager for Brunswick New Technologies (formerly Navman New Zealand). As one of the world's leading manufacturers of GPS technology and consumer electronics devices, Brunswick New Technologies’ revenues exceeded US$500 million. During this time Paul was responsible for a multi–million dollar intellectual property portfolio and budget and he managed the intellectual property outputs of more than 400 engineers and scientists.

Other career highlights include developing and managing The Icehouse Incubator, the University of Auckland's technology incubator. He developed the Icehouse from an empty warehouse into an incubator for 15 high-technology companiesemploying more than 50 staff and assisted them to raise more than $5M in development capital. The Icehouse incubator has been named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 10 technology incubators in the world and was the only incubator named outside the United States.

Paul has also worked in Silicon Valley, where he co-founded a technology start-up company and raised venture and development capital for New Zealand and United States ventures.

Paul holds degrees in Law (Honours) specialising in software licensing law and Arts (Economics and History) from the University of Auckland. He is a Member of the New Zealand Government’s Advisory Board to the National Network of Commercialisation Centres and is a frequent guest speaker at intellectual property and commercialisation conferences and events in New Zealand and overseas.