Gamble of the week: hi-tech supplier to blue-chip companies

This week's gamble supplies disk storage systems to more than 50 blue-chip companies. It has around 14% of the market – but it is in a very competitive industry.

I've recently set up a "business-type" broadband network at home. This allows my family's PCs instantaneously to share, back-up and save files (music, for example) on to a central server, thus efficiently managing all our digital content.

This is a trend being replicated in millions of households worldwide, and one that is proving to be a rich seam of growth for the networked storage industry: according to research house IDC, demand for disk storage systems is set to rise by an average of 57% until 2011.

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.