Paul Wilson

Chair, Smart Cities World Advisory Board | Senior Advisor, Open Agile Smart Cities |Consultant

United Kingdom

About

Paul builds high performance international teams that exceed their OKRs. He's led go-to-market and solution management. He's been CMO of $3Bn fintech leader SunGard Financial Systems and CMO of global digital innovation incubator TM Forum, Chief Business Officer at Connected Places Catapult, and CEO of West of England LEP. He set up the award winning project Bristol Is Open and was a co-founder of UK5G. Paul is engaged in a variety of future tech and environmental activities and is always interested to talk to creative thinkers and entrepreneurs.

Experience

  • Chair, Advisory Board at SmartCitiesWorld
    Jul 2020 - Present · 6 yrs

    Sharing Ideas to Solve Urban Challenges

  • Senior Advisor at Open & Agile Smart Cities & Communities (OASC)
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Board Member

  • Owner at The Consulting Department
    Jul 2014 - Present · 12 yrs

    Working with private and public sector organisations on vision, strategy, partnerships, and go-to-market.

  • Chief Business Officer at Connected Places Catapult
    Apr 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Connected Places Catapult is the UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership. We connect people, places and businesses to a future of sustainable growth and prosperity. As part of the senior team, I helped to lead the organisation through a multi-year period of sustained national and international growth, setting the organisation's strategy, and leading its sales and marketing functions. I was responsible for growing its Communities of Practice: Digital Twin Hub; Global BIM Network; Cities Climate Investment Commission (3Ci); Freeport Innovation Network; Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership (i3P); Innovation Disitricts Group; Innovative Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC). And much more...

  • Co-Founder, Senior Advisor, Board Member at UK5G
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2022 · 5 yrs

    UK5G is a collaborative network of networks sharing understanding about B2B digital transformation using emerging technology ecosystems. I provided programme design and review, for UK Government's DCMS' 5G Testbeds & Trials Programme. I was an 'external assessor' of the £30m Urban Connected Communities competition which was won by WM5G.