About Paul Walsh
Founder and CEO
Paul is the Founder and CEO of Segala, a specialist in Web based standards compliance certification and expert in content classification using a method called Content Labels.
Prior to Segala, Paul was an executive at Eqos, a pioneer in the development of Web technologies for the B2B retail industry.
Paul was one of the first to join AOL as a small startup in 1995 where he was the first Technical Accounts Manager and International Beta Coordinator. He was a key member of the team developing AOL’s UK presence and assisted with the launch of other AOL European territories.
Paul has international experience within the Telecommunications Industry and has consulted for companies such as Vodafone, O2, Orange, CMG and ADC Metrica.
Paul was reelected Chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), the longest established Industry association to represent the interests of the digital industry, in May 2007 after serving as Chair in 2006, and as a member of the Executive in 2005.
Paul is an adviser to the British Council, helping it to build and improve the digital pioneer programme with Hong Kong. He is also advising them on a new 3 year entrepreneurial related project with India.
He is non-Executive Director at Newspepper.com and a mentor to the CEO of 3 Dynamics; one of Hong Kong’s top 5 mobile games companies.
He is also a Partner in a group of award winning, Michelin rated restaurants in Dublin.
Paul hosts conferences, delivers keynote speeches and moderates debates regularly. He also consults brands with a global presence, in how to adopt social media to deliver more innovative marketing to improve consumer engagement.
- Instrumental in the formation of the W3C’s first ever incubator activity, to review Content Labels as a formal method of classifying and labeling content
- Segala’s W3C Advisory Committee Representative
- Founding Sponsor of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative and member of the Steering Council
- Active participant in the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) special interest group.
- Check out Paul’s company blog
- Check out the BIMA blog that Paul created and now edits
- Follow Paul on Twitter
- Connect with Paul on Facebook
One of the top 5 Irish who’ve made it into London’s marketing elite
One to watch out for in 2007

5 Comments
So far,

February 19, 2007 @

Fancy a Curry 2.0?
[...] Me [...]