Director of Technology @ Ocado is the world’s largest online only grocery retailer and we do it like nobody else. Our customers place their orders online and then we pick and pack them in huge automated warehouses (we call them CFCs) before they arrive at their kitchen tables in one hour delivery slots. Our business is all about making this process as simple and convenient as possible for our customers but that simplicity is delivered by enormous complexity under the surface. Ocado is powered by a huge Aladdin’s cave of technology almost all of which we build in-house. What we do here is not IT, it’s technology in the true sense of the word and our technology estate is very broad and deep - real-time control systems, robotics, machine learning, simulation, data science, forecasting systems, routing systems, inference engines, big data and so on. We are the fusion of two businesses - retail and technology. Our retail businesses help drive the innovation and the customer requirements. Our technology business builds the solutions which we then deploy back in our retail businesses. This allows us to do what neither a pure retailer nor a pure technology company can do - create a virtuous circle of innovation dogfooding. We are in the process of re-platforming our complete solution to create the Ocado Smart Platform - a combination of scalable modular hardware for building CFCs and our end to end software solution running in the cloud. We will use this platform to put retailers around the world online using our unique business model. We are a disruptor. For us it’s all about the first (or even the second) derivative. It’s not about how fast we innovate, it’s about how fast we innovate our innovation factory. What many companies would consider R & D we see as Business as Usual. Then we have what we call R & D and then beyond that we have our 10X development streams - where we attempt to disrupt ourselves before anyone disrupts us. Digitisation is not on our agenda - we were born digital. From January 2012 to Present (3 years 10 months) Hatfield, UKHead of Routing, Simulation, Mobile and Robotics @ From May 2006 to December 2011 (5 years 8 months) Hatfield, UK

MA (Oxon), Physics @ University of Oxford From 1977 to 1980 Westminster School From 1972 to 1976 Paul CBE is skilled in: Leadership, Software Development, Management, Start-ups, Invention, Disruptive Technologies