Paul Schurink
Owner,
Showpower
Paul Schurink is an expert in the field of temporary energy supply, sustainability and innovations. He holds an MBE in energy systems and has been involved with a variety of large-scale events, festivals and (world) tours including Coldplay, Lollapalooza Chicago, the Olympic Games, UEFA EURO 2012, The Ocean Race and many others. Paul takes a role as project leader, technical mastermind and as expert in energy and sustainability, specialized in energy assessment, measurement and logging, as well as design of the optimal power supply for events using his proprietary Smart Power Plan technology, MyZAP. Most recently, Paul has been an integral member of the power team for the Coldplay “Music of the Spheres” World Tour. This tour has seen a global stadium artist tour with batteries for the first time using the world-first SmartGrid battery system which Paul helped design. This system has currently powered 50+ Coldplay stadium shows in over 15 countries, which makes up almost 1/3 of the world tour to date. Paul is owner of ZAP Concepts (www.zapconcepts.com), co-founder of Showpower (www.showpower.com) and co-founder of MyZAP (www.myzap.energy).