Paul Adams

Paul Adams
CEO & Founder

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

Before founding EverEdge IP in 2003, Paul was employed for three years as the Intellectual Property Manager of Brunswick Technologies (formerly Navman New Zealand). As one of the world's leading manufacturers of GPS technology and consumer electronics devices, Brunswick Technologies’ revenues exceeded US$700 million. During this time Paul was responsible for a multi–million dollar intellectual property portfolio and budget and managed the intellectual property outputs of 400+ engineers.

Other career highlights include two years developing and managing The Icehouse Incubator, the University of Auckland's technology incubator. In 24 months, he developed the incubator from a zero base to hold 15 high technology companies employing more than 50 staff. The Icehouse incubator was recently 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 owned 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 frequent guest speaker at intellectual property related conferences and events in New Zealand and overseas.