| Website | paulfwalsh.com |
| Blog | paulfwalsh.com/blog |
| @paul__walsh | |
| Birthdate | 6/24/73 |
In 2003, Paul founded his first ‘successful’ company Segala, a specialist in software testing and standards compliance. Having generated $2.6m revenue in year one, Segala is an established and respected player in the market today.
Paul cut his teeth in the startup world as was one of the first AOL employees in Europe during the mid 90′s and built his first website in 1996. As the company’s first Technical Accounts Manager and International Beta Coordinator for the UK & Sweden, Paul was responsible for the test management of all new products and technologies – including AIM, Internet Radio, Online games and 56k modem speed.
From 2006-2008 Paul served as Chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) – the longest established and most respected Industry association to represent the UK Digital Industry. During his time as an Advisor to the British Council between 2007 – 2009, Paul advised senior management on its Digital Pioneer programme with Hong Kong and its Creative Entrepreneur programme with India.
Paul is a world renowned advocate and creator of Internet and mobile standards. His work with the World Wide Consortium (W3C), where standards such as HTML have been created, is well documented and referenced by publishers and governments around the world.
Paul is one of the seven original founders of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative and was a member of the Steering Council for the first year while also representing Segala as a member of the W3C Advisory Council. Paul is the co-creator of the W3C’s first incubator project which later became the industry standard for labeling content known as POWDER, replacing the old standard called PICS, which is still in use by the Microsoft Internet Explorer filter, Content Advisor.
Paul is leading MetaCert to become the first company worldwide to go to market with a platform and product portfolio using W3C POWDER
