Paul Excell is an award‑winning executive chair, board advisor, and executive coach with a distinguished career spanning global technology, innovation, space, and leadership at scale. He held multiple C‑suite and senior leadership roles at BT, including Chief Customer Innovation Officer, Chief Operating Officer for Innovation, Group Technology Officer, and SVP, Platforms & Services, where he launched global businesses generating over $4bn in revenues across 170+ countries.

Today, Paul is a Founding Partner of ScaleUp Group – successfully scaling a portfolio of leading high-growth technology companies and Chair of AI4C (AI for Charities), a unique, collaborative learning exchange enabling over 85 Not For Profits to deploy AI for Good at scale. A renown keynote speaker, he is a former trusted advisor to the UN Secretary‑General and the World Economic Forum; he is educated at London Business School and IMD, serves on multiple advisory boards, and coaches senior executive leaders at several multi-billion global organisations.