We are pleased to welcome our new President of Kapiti Rotary for the 2025/26 year, Paul Adams.

Born and raised in London, UK, Paul has traversed many varied personal and professional pathways. Starting out as a firefighter, he moved on to a sales and marketing career with some great times, in particular with Castrol, the oil company. Initially in the UK, then South Africa and from 1985, Christchurch and Wellington where managing their motorsport programme was a particularly enjoyable bonus. More recently and relevant to Kapiti, Paul enjoyed a 5-year stint as a Commercial Property broker with Bayleys.

When invited to join the Kapiti Rotary Club by fellow keen cyclist Gary, Paul was initially resistant, as he had a negative impression of Rotary from the UK but then he recalled a Rotarian there giving him the life-changing opportunity to crew on a Sail Training Association vessel, The Malcom Miller, the equivalent of our Spirit of Adventure Trust, and decided to give something back.

Paul has been a member of Kāpiti Rotary for 13 years. For some of those years he was very focused on the re-branding and structural change programme, then running the Kāpiti Food Fair logistics, a wonderful fund raiser, for what this year will be the 10^th time.

In his limited spare time, Paul enjoyed the 4WD world with competitions and back country outings, the wilder the better, and is a past President of the Wellington Cross Country Vehicle Club. He was also a keen sailor and more recently his experience with wing walking was wild! Paul has twin adult sons, one locally the other in love with the London life and has been doing so for 13 years.

Paul’s key goal for his Presidency, is to leave the Club in an even better position than he found it.