Paul founded and is the Managing General Partner of Fairhaven Capital Partners and Milk Street Investments, a predictive analytics augmented investment platform. Together, these funds have invested about US$500-million in over 80 early-stage companies in the U.S. and Canada. Based in Boston and Cambridge, Paul led investments and generated substantial exits in cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, mobile technology, financial services, food and beverage, logistics and supply chain, and property technology start-ups. He has served as a director on the boards of many start-up companies and is an advisor to many others.

In addition, he is affiliated with several U.S. university boards and was a co-founder of several university affinity network platforms focused on new company development.

Paul came to the venture industry as the founder of TD Capital Ventures in Boston. Earlier, he founded and managed several technology companies in the financial services industry as a senior executive at Fidelity Investments in Boston. He also founded and was President of The Proxy Edge (acq NYSE: ADP), which automated the proxy voting system for the U.S. securities industry.

Paul started his career as a United States Presidential Management Intern. He was also a Senior Policy Advisory at the United States Environmental Protection Agency.