Paul JANSEN is SPH Search’s CEO. He is the only Singapore media professional to have played top-level roles in all three of the main news carriers: newspapers, TV and the Internet.

An award-winning veteran journalist, who has charted the heartbeat of Singapore over close to three decades, he has also held several key editorial positions in the print edition of The Straits Times; was founding Editor of its Internet ego, The Straits Times Interactive; launched the paper’s first TV operation as news anchor of the main nightly newscast; and was Editor of  Streats, the first free newspaper in Singapore, which subsequently merged with its competitor, Today.

On the non-editorial front, Paul has played a part in moves by SPH to diversify. Among other things, he was a member of the small project team which made a successful bid for a mobile telephone licence and a paging licence for a consortium consisting of SPH and three other partners. The cellular company that was created for this business has been listed and is now worth more than $1.7 billion (Singapore).

Keen to understand all aspects of the media business, on leaving Streats, Paul accepted an invitation in Jan 2005 to join SPH's Marketing Division, becoming the first newspaper editor in the group’s history to do so. As head of Special Projects, which handles supplements for the group's English-language papers, he helped raise supplements’ revenues significantly and also led his team to win several top international awards for design and innovation.

He became employee Number 1 of SPH Search in 2006.
The company launched the local search engine www.rednano.sg on March 18, 2008.

In between changing name cards, he returned to school twice; once at the World Press Institute in Macalester College in Minnesota (1982), and later, Stanford University in California (1985-86), courtesy of two internationally-awarded fellowships.

When not at work, Paul indulges in his other passions: reading, and wandering with his wife through the Great Outdoors on foot or four-wheel-drive cars. He is also an avid aviator, and flies experimental and general aviation aircraft, and is continually on the lookout for an opportunity to pilot WWII legends.