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Paul
Jackson is Executive Director of Jasia Ltd, a company providing specialist
services for media and membership organisations in technology. He
leads in Europe for the International Engineering Consortium on the
SOFNET event.
He
has had a varied career, encompassing contract R&D, local government,
the media and the charity sector. Trained as an engineer, Paul spent
the early part of his career at ERA Technology researching new techniques
for humanitarian mine clearance before moving into the technology
media. He was launch editor for United Business Media’s Microwave
Engineering Europe and has written for a wide range of publications
from Metal Bulletin and Mobile Communications International to the
Financial Times.
From
2002-2007, he was with the Institution of Engineering and Technology,
Europe’s largest professional body for the science, engineering
and technology community. In that role he has led the IET’s
development in India and China and has regularly commented on skills
and technology issues facing the engineering and IT industries.
Paul’s
wider contribution to the technology community has also been varied:
member of the partnership board, International Broadcasting Convention,
Advisory Committee for the electricity distribution community CIRED,
Technical Director of EUREL, Chair of the Boards for Islington Building
Services and Cleansing Services.
Paul
is a chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET.
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