Paul Botje
Chief Operating Officer
Paul is Dutch by birth and spent his early youth in Nigeria and Qatar where his father worked in the oil industry. He read Business Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam and subsequently studied for a Masters of International Business Law at the Universtity of London, graduating in 1990.
He spent ten years in the paper manufacturing industry in a variety of production, logistics and supply chain roles before joining direct marketing agency Miller Starr (which later became part of McCann-Erickson) as its Operations Director, responsible for the technical side of the company. He then spent a short time as COO of Research Now plc, an international online data collection and panel specialist, and joined Canadean as COO in November 2007.