Paul Needham: Owning Electricity
Paul Needham’s organisation, Simpa Networks, makes solar energy available to the poor. By using a pay-as-you-go pricing structure modeled after mobile phone cards, Simpa gives its customers ownership of the electricity. Once the initial cost of the equipment is paid off, the device belongs to the customer and their electricity is free.
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ABOUT Paul Needham
“Paul Needham is an InfoTech entrepreneur with over 12 years of senior leadership experience. In 1999, he quit the Economics PhD programme at Cambridge University to co-found MeMail.com, a publisher of news and entertainment content delivered to the email inboxes of subscribers.
Two years later he co-founded an innovative online advertising network called BidClix. As CEO, he led the company through launch, six years of growth, and then its sale to Accipiter Solutions.
He joined Accipiter as VP Product Strategy and a member of the Board. Paul helped negotiate the sale of Accipiter to aQuantive and soon afterwards, aQuantive was acquired by Microsoft with Paul joining Microsoft as Director of APS Canada and responsibility for launching Microsoft’s online advertising network business in Canada.
Paul is also on the Board of Directors of CAMFED USA (Campaign for Female Education), a not-for-profit organisation that tackles poverty and HIV/AIDS by investing in the education of girls in Africa.
He holds a M.Phil. in Economics and Politics of Development from Cambridge University, UK and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. In 1992 he completed the International Management Programme at Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commercial (HEC), near Paris, France where he focused on International Marketing and Global commerce.”
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