Paul Meyers is the Founder and Head Coach of Asia Founder Coaching, a boutique coaching and educational practice supporting founders and senior executives of fast growing companies in Asia and around the world.

Paul also runs Founders Circle, a monthly mastermind Founder support group in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.

Paul is an Asian digital media pioneer and senior executive with over 30 years of leadership experience in media, telecoms and payments verticals. He has founded and built 6 regional Asian startups and exited successfully from 3 of them (1 x NASDAQ, 2 x trade sales).

In his early career, Paul wrote and directed award-winning science documentaries for USAID, the US Congress and US public broadcast channels; produced best-selling kids’ educational CD-ROMs, founded Vietnam’s 1st computer-based animation house and, for Asia Business News (now CNBC Asia), led the creation of Asia’s first interactive news service: ABN On-Demand.

Paul was co-founder and COO of Asian Internet pioneer Tricast (later, Asiacontent.com), building teams and entities across 8 countries, raising tens of millions of dollars in investments and helping to take the company public on NASDAQ as IASIA in 2000.

While there, Paul negotiated joint ventures and licensing deals bringing CNET, MTV, E!Online, FashionTV, DoubleClick and others to the Asian internet, while also founding MTVAsia.com and building it into Asia’s #1 music Internet destination.

Subsequently, Paul founded Acme Mobile, Southeast Asia’s largest distributor of mobile games and other content, including music, sports and subscription services. Acme managed over 60 B2B and B2C channels in the region, including 16 direct micro-billing accounts with leading mobile carriers. He sold Acme Mobile in 2009.

Paul has served as Southeast Asia Entrepreneur in Residence for MOX – the Mobile-only Accelerator (now Orbit Startups) and led Telstra’s renowned early-stage accelerator “muru-D” in Asia. He was also a key member of the team that built the Asian Development Bank’s impact-focused emerging market venture fund, ADB Ventures.

In addition to his coaching practice, Paul currently works with many of the world’s leading accelerator programs as a teacher, mentor and lecturer, as a judge in dozens of startup competitions and as an advisor to several SEAsian startups and VCs.

Paul is an avid and popular speaker, leads numerous courses for startup founders and is an investor in exceptional startups. He is a strong advocate for Female Founders and Founder Mental Wellness and can be found writing and speaking about these issues extensively.

Currently living in Bangkok after many years in Singapore, Paul is the father of 3 children, an avid cook and traveler and a bad golfer.