Paul Corcoran

Trustee

Paul Corcoran is CEO and founder of Agent, which is based in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle - one of the UK’s fastest growing creative and digital communities.

Agent is a diverse team of creative thinkers and change makers, a collective of strategists, designers, coders, researchers, campaigners, publicists, teachers, students and canines; a team that loves creating work that makes a lasting impact.

2018 has been Agent’s biggest year to date delivering multi-disciplinary projects for clients across the UK – 2019 promises to be even bigger with expansion plans currently in progress.

In 2014, Paul founded the pioneering Agent Academy CIC which helps young people across the city region start careers within the creative and digital industries. To date, 95% of its graduates are now in full time permanent employment, generating well over £2.8 million worth of annual salaries since its inception.

Passionate about building a great place to work, Paul spearheaded the six-hour working day at Agent, showcasing how working differently can improve efficiency, enhance culture and inspire the client work being created.

As a result of Agent’s innovative approaches to workplace health and wellbeing and its unrivalled commitment to corporate responsibility, Paul won The Guardian’s ‘Sustainable Business Leader of the Year’ award in 2016.

In 2017, Paul was named as one of BIMA’s Top 100 digital and creative leaders in the UK. Paul also recently won NatWest’s Creative Industries Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Paul is deputy-chair for Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership & the co-chair of the LEP’s Creative and Digital board, and Vice Chair of Liverpool’s Everyman & Playhouse theatres.