Paul Canavan

Paul Canavan is a highly experienced Digital Specialist with a successful track record of leading transformational change in a multichannel retail environment. He has extensive experience in delivering large scale digital development programmes, designing digital strategies and roadmaps to achieve consistent ecommerce growth, and growing and developing team capability to support significant sales growth.

Paul has a strong commercial focus and has been accountable for large capital budgets, functional revenue budgets, and digital P&L. He is great at building strong and collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders and functional peers. His expertise in the digital realm is evident in the many roles he has held, including Multichannel Director at Wickes, Head of Digital at Homebase, and Programme Manager at Whitbread.

Paul began his education by studying A Level Law, Pure Maths, and English Language at New College Durham before pursuing a Second Degree in LLB (Hons) Law at the University of Teesside.