Paul Gould is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor positioned at the intersection of social gaming, virtual goods, community interactions and metric driven startups.
Paul is the CEO of Replay Gaming, a leading play-money poker platform, and the CEO & Founder of Trade2Win, one of the world’s largest online communities for financial traders.
Whilst CEO of Trade2Win, Paul co-founded Dynamite Partners, a successful internet agency that delivered award-winning web designs to clients across the UK. In 2008, he was instrumental in pivoting the company and re-branding it as Nudge, a social media agency that had great success with a blue-chip client list including Sony, MasterCard, Britvic and Sky. In 2010 Nudge had a successful exit having been acquired by Syncapse Corp.
In 2010, having passed the National Commodity Futures Examination (Series 3 & 34), Paul became registered as the Principal of a Member Firm of the National Futures Association (US).
Paul was born and raised in London. He graduated from the University of East Anglia with a Bachelor of Laws degree.
Specialties: Start-ups, product and customer development, user interaction, strategy, web analytics, metrics, social gaming, community management, forex trading.
CEO & Owner @ Social gaming company behind Replay Poker one of the leading play-money poker platforms. Top rated poker app in the Chrome Store, 6th largest play money poker site worldwide (tracked via PokerScout.com) From April 2008 to Present (7 years 7 months) Founder & Owner @ Trade2Win is the leading community website and portal for financial traders with over 325K members and 1.3M forum posts (as of 04/15). Hosted the Members' Choice Awards which gained industry recognition as the de facto trading community awards. From January 2001 to Present (14 years 10 months) CEO & Founder @ A brand new platform for forex traders powered by, what we like to call, crowd sourced trading =) From May 2009 to November 2012 (3 years 7 months) Director of Strategy @ Nudge is London's #1 social media agency creating social campaigns and social utilities for a broad range of social platforms including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Twitter. From June 2008 to June 2010 (2 years 1 month) Owner @ NSider2 was created after the closure in Sept 2007 of the official Nintendo NSider Forums, the world's most active and largest Nintendo community. NSider2 rapidly established itself as it's successor. After acquiring the site in January 2008, it was eventually sold to CrowdGather Inc. in March 2010. From January 2008 to March 2010 (2 years 3 months) Managing Director @ Dynamite Partners was a successful London based web development studio that delivered award winning web design, branding and internet solutions to clients including BMW and Londonewcastle. From November 2006 to June 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Startup Accelerator @ Founder Institute (NYC) From 2010 to 2010 Português para Estrangeiros @ Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado From 2009 to 2010 Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Law, 2:1 @ University of East Anglia From 1994 to 1998 Paul Gould is skilled in: Start-ups, Strategy, Web Analytics, CRM, Community Management, Entrepreneurship, Social Media Marketing, Management, Web Design, Online Advertising
Websites:
http://www.trade2win.com,
http://www.replaypoker.com,
http://www.forexdesk.com