Paul Jenkinson

CEO and Co-founder at Whitespace

Paul Jenkinson has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Paul is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Whitespace, a company that builds tech companies through its Innovation Lab. Paul is responsible for identifying market opportunities and either sourcing scale-up companies or building technology in-house. Paul is also involved in spinning out the Eamli decision-engine into a separate company.

Prior to Whitespace, Paul served as a Non Executive Director and Chairman at Jenson Seed EIS Fund, where they focused on funding early stage high growth companies. Paul has made over 50 investments in technology-based companies.

Paul was also the Co-Founder and Director of Change Base Limited, where they provided application packaging services to help large corporates transition from one operating system to another. The company was eventually sold to Quest and acquired by Dell.

Additionally, Paul has experience as a Finance Director at Camwood Limited, where they played a crucial role in turning around the struggling business and raising funds. Paul also served as an Interim Finance Director at Intelligent Environments and as the Finance Director at Cityjobs.com plc.

In their early career, Paul worked as a Corporate Finance Manager at Deloitte & Touche, where they worked on buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, and lead advisory services for large corporates. Paul was also part of the Deloitte Engineering team. Paul further served as a Corporate Finance Manager at BDO Stoy Hayward, where they focused on technology spin-outs and successfully took two companies from start-up to IPO. Paul began their career as an Audit Senior at Deloitte.

Throughout their career, Paul has demonstrated expertise in finance, technology, and entrepreneurship, with a successful track record in building and transforming businesses.

Paul Jenkinson attended the University of Warwick from 1988 to 1991 and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. There is no specific information available regarding their education before that but it is known that they attended Marple Ridge at some point, although the duration and details of this education are unknown.

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