After graduating from McGill University, Paul had a successful engineering design consulting career working for the forest sector across Canada and around the world, at Beak Consultants Limited and HA Simons Limited. During this time he was sought after to provide innovative process and environmental engineering solutions for his clients, and worked at over 70 pulp and paper mills and companies. In 2000, he joined École Polytechnique to become the first NSERC Environmental Design Engineering Chair, and since has impacted the Canadian forestry sector through the application of advanced product and process design methods, in the context of several innovative technology platforms in Canada's establishing bioeconomy. He is both an academic and consultant, assisting forestry companies to diversity revenues and transform; to help ensure a prosperous future for Canada's forestry sector.