Paul Holyoake | Executive Chairman

BEngMech (Hons), MEngSci, GradDip CompSci (Melb)

Paul was appointed Executive Chairman in July 2005.

As a founder of Oakton, Paul delivered the drive and business pragmatism to grow a start-up company into the profi table enterprise that it is today. He has stepped away from the day to day activities of Oakton to focus on strategic initiatives and most recently played major roles in the acquisitions of Clickstream and Acumen Alliance.

Paul has been an integral part of the success and growth of Oakton since listing. Paul has a proven ability to detect the direction of technology and to align the business focus accordingly.

Paul has been involved in the information technology sector since 1980, and worked for a robotics company and CRA (now Rio Tinto) prior to founding Oakton in 1988.