Paul Irving

Paul@skillswork.co.uk

As our Founder and Managing Director, Paul works across all areas of the business with a strong focus on the business strategy and financial management.

Paul has a passion for education and business. Having left school aged 15 with no formal qualifications he started his first business at the age of 17 and has owned and run various businesses ever since. He returned to education in the late 1990s to study information system design followed by a PGCE.

He has worked in the further education sector and more specifically in apprenticeships for over 20 years having provided long term consultancy support in a range of senior roles from Skills Director, Business Development to Compliance & Quality. He also spent 3 years as the Finance Director of Skills for Growth at an East London charity providing education-based opportunities to the young people of East and South East London.

Paul has also spent time working in the commercial sector more recently as CEO of the Reynolds Fitness Group, specialising in gyms & spas, with the responsibility for leading the overall direction of the organisation.

Throughout his career Paul has owned and run businesses across a broad range of sectors from retail to business consultancy. More recently Paul took his consultancy business Skillswork in a new direction focusing on the development of a cloud-based solution built on the globally successful Salesforce platform to further support the skills sector.