I’m the founder of Paperight, a distributed print-on-demand service. I’m building Paperight as a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. Before working full-time on Paperight, I co-founded and ran Electric Book Works, a book production and consulting company in Cape Town, finding and testing digital-publishing best practice in emerging markets. There I also founded EBW Healthcare, which mostly publishes learning materials for nurses and midwives. I’m a co-founder of the Digital Minds Network, a group of digital-publishing experts working in developing countries.

I worked in educational and scholarly publishing for two multinational publishers before starting EBW in 2006. I’ve presented at conferences in South Africa, Europe and the US, and was runner-up for the British Council’s International Young Publishing Entrepreneur award in 2009. For a professional resumé, see my LinkedIn profile.

I was born in Durban in 1976, grew up in Amanzimtoti, White River, and Pretoria, and attended the University of Cape Town. I live in Cape Town with my wife Michelle Matthews.