Paul Burton

Chief Strategy Officer at Commify

Paul Burton has a diverse work experience in various roles and industries. Paul started their career as an Associate in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch, gaining experience in European Consumer & Retail, Corporate Broking, and Financial Sponsors. Paul then worked as an Investment Manager at Silverfleet Capital before becoming a Principal at Darwin Private Equity LLP. In this role, they focused on buy-outs of UK businesses in the business services, TMT, and consumer sectors. Paul later joined Esendex as a Non-Executive Director, representing Darwin Private Equity and leading the long-term buy & build plan. Paul also served as a Non-Executive Director at Euroffice Ltd. Currently, they are working as the Chief Strategy Officer at Commify, where they are responsible for leading the company's long-term strategy, including M&A activities.

Paul Burton attended Durham University from 1999 to 2002, where they pursued a degree in Economics & Law.

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Most businesses are terrible at communicating with their customers. They either don't communicate enough, or use channels their customers don't like. But when they get it right, it can transform their customer experience and their financial performance. So, it's our mission to make business communication brilliant. Commify is Europe's leading supplier of Application-To-Person business messaging services. We help over 46,000 companies communicate brilliantly with their customers and staff; sending almost 5 billion messages a year through our portfolio of brands. Our messaging solutions encompass everything from SMS to mobile payments, accessed through web applications, APIs or bespoke integrations. All of our products and platforms are supported by a passionate and innovative international team, with in-house development and support. Headquartered in Nottingham (UK), we sell through a portfolio of brands, dependent on geography and customer segment. These include Esendex, TextAnywhere, Text Marketer, Skebby, Massenversand, SMSpubli, SMS Envoi, and Spryng and operate in the UK, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and The United States. Backed by Europe's leading technology investor, HgCapital, we are actively looking at more acquisition targets, to enable us to help even more companies transform their business communications.