My Net Worth: Paul Sapsford, biotech startup co-CEO

Paul Sapsford is co-chief executive of a startup adding value to sheepskins. (Images: Supplied)

Sun, 20 Jul 2025

Paul Sapsford is a founder and co-CEO of Tertiary Extracts Ōtautahi, a startup company in Christchurch turning waste sheepskins into a high-value protein. He previously led biotechnology company Keraplast and has a decades-long background in sales, beginning with ComputerLand in 1987.I was born in Christchurch. When I was six, my parents took my brother and me to live in Auckland. Dad, who was a working-class Londoner, went to teachers’ training college up there and got University Entrance and his teaching certificate all in one year. He...

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