About Me

Graham is Founder and Chairman of PAOGA Ltd. (www.paoga.com) providing Personal Information Management Services (PIMS), ‘Your digital safe deposit box to securely store your valuable information, identity & documents’, and the Personal Information Exchange (PIE) managing the ‘rules of engagement’ between organisations and individuals. This is known in the industry as VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) as the reciprocal to CRM.
He is called to speak at various UK and European conferences on this important issue addressing the private and public sector.
Graham provides consultancy services to organisations wishing to improve their trusted relationships with their customers, is a guest lecturer at INSEAD and University of Surrey, acts as a Non-Executive Director and advisor to a number of companies (listed and private) as well as Web 2.0 start-ups.

From 1993 - 2001 Graham was a Founder and CEO of Infobank Plc. developing a B2B e-procurement enterprise solution. He was involved with raising initial VC investment, floatation on AIM and subsequent move to LSE involving an international offering of £130m taking the business into the FTSE 250 with a market cap of £2bn. Infobank was rebranded Izodia Plc. and Graham stood down in April 2001.

Prior to Infobank Graham had over 20 years experience founding and managing a number of businesses in the communications and publishing industries spanning graphic design, advertising, marketing, international book publishing (acquired by Time-Life Books International), early electronic publishing (NAPLPS), software development (Personal Presentation System for Olivetti and DataBase Publisher for IBM and Ventura) and international software publishing (acquired by Ventura Software Inc. a division of Xerox Corp.) where Graham was Managing Director and VP EMEA.

Throughout his working life Graham (http://blog.grahamsadd.com) has been exploiting technology to automate repetitive tasks on the principle that People Are Our Greatest Asset.