Westcliff Grammar

Corporate Adviser, Management and Employee Ownership

Main areas - 
Business Succession/Owner Exit Planning
Employee Ownership
Employee and Management Buyouts
Management and Employee Share Incentive Schemes

Cwmpas

My work involves supporting owners who wish to plan ownership succession and managers and employees who wish to take some or all of that ownership.

Wales Cooperative Centre

Corporate Adviser, Manager and Employee Ownership

Awarded for services to support small and medium sized business in the City of Birmingham. Supporting the Dean on matters affecting small businesses.

Birmingham City University Business School

Professor

In 2000 Paul started using his business background to help develop other companies when he joined Birmingham City Council, Europe's largest unitary authority, as Business and Enterprise Manager and then as acting Assistant Director for Business and Community Partnerships. This work was focused on High Growth Business Sectors, entrepreneurship , the social economy and the development of businesses owned/managed by business people from the Asian, and African Caribbean communities. This work involved managing a plethora of Service Level Agreements with local agencies and active links into regeneration programmes. It also involved work in investment and access to finance through a range of companies.

From 2004 onwards he was also responsible to Birmingham City Council and the Creative Birmingham Partnership for development of the creative economy in the city and its links to the wider area regeneration of the City Centre.

As part of these functions he held a range of positions -

Chair, Birmingham Venture Capital
Director, Birmingham Centre for Manufacturing
Director, Creative Advantage Fund
Director, Birmingham Support Services Company
Board Member, Creative Birmingham
Member of the Regional Advisory Board, Princes Trust

Birmingham City Council

Head of Enterprise/Head of Creative Development

primarily with Rapra Technology, a large European consultancy company providing services to the oil, chemical and engineering industries. 

He was responsible for non-technical operations including online services, information services, publishing, business development and management consultancy. His many blue-chip clients included ICI, BP Chemicals, Ford, Toyota and Goodyear. He was appointed to the Board as Information Director in 1997. He established the company's US subsidiary and an agency network in the Far East. He has carried out various overseas business development projects for UNIDO in Egypt, India and Pakistan and work for the Hong Kong Government. He has held the following positions as part of this work -

Director, Rapra Technology Limited
Vice-President, Rapra Technology Inc.
Member of Science and Technology Advisory Board, British Library.

Paul Cantrill