Paul Keursten

Being an entrepreneur is the passion of my life. I want to shape from ideas on how things can be different: nicer, more sustainable, more fun, more human, and more powerful. This already started in 1989 at the start of my own company and strengthened in 1996, when I founded and shaped the new Kessels & Smit, The Learning Company, together with Joseph Kessels and Cora Smit in 1996

New companies

My entrepreneurship keeps on developing. Fascinations of the past and present come together here: architecture, building, learning and developing, social involvement – joint together they lead to surprising initiatives and perspectives.
Late 2007 I started up two companies. The first is Maliebaan45, a new housing concept to learn, work, meet and undertake. The second is SEEtrust, a social-economic enterprise in South Africa, where work, income, education and social facilities are being realized for children and adults, who don’t have any access to these elements of life.
Recently, a new company has come to life: OPEN collaborative city workspaces, a modern co-working space in the inner city of Johannesburg, meant to provide for an inspiring environment to work, learn and innovate.