Carmel Bats Team
Paul is a founding member of Carmel Bats, a community volunteer, and a former Silicon Valley tech marketing executive now based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. He is known for leading local environmental and civic initiatives across the Monterey Peninsula.
At Carmel Bats, Paul personally designs and builds each bat box, intentionally over-engineering them to withstand decades of coastal wind, rain, and sun and ideally last 30 years or more in all weather conditions. With a steady backlog of adoption requests, he visits every prospective site to evaluate the building's or tree’s suitability, surrounding habitat conditions, and the homeowner’s commitment to long-term stewardship.
Paul has enjoyed some unforgettable bat encounters during his travels overseas. In Goa, India, while resting beneath a mango tree at 4:30 a.m. waiting for his guesthouse to open, he discovered that the warm rain drenching him wasn't coming from a passing cloud, it was a colony of bats peeing all over him. While traveling up the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea by motorized canoe, he sampled roasted bat, which, surprisingly, tasted just like chicken. In Indonesia, he witnessed thousands of giant fruit bats (flying foxes) emerging from the mangrove swamps near the Komodo Islands, filling the twilight sky with their enormous wings.
Beyond Carmel Bats, Paul leads Carmel Owls, a volunteer conservation organization dedicated to protecting Great Horned Owls throughout the Monterey Peninsula. Through community fundraising, homeowner outreach, volunteer coordination, and hands-on installations, Paul has helped spearhead the construction and installation of 29 nesting platforms across the region. His work brings together dozens of dedicated volunteers and local sponsors to restore owl nesting habitats, educate the community, and promote natural rodent control as an alternative to harmful poisons.
Paul also volunteers with Tag Team for Carmel Cares, which maintains the town’s aesthetic by removing graffiti and unauthorized stickers from public and private signs. He operates under the motto: “No stickers, no flyers, no graffiti — no exceptions.”
He is a member of Carmel-by-the-Sea VIPS (Volunteers in Police Service), where he typically serves in uniform at the Thursday Farmers Market. Paul also volunteers for the Radio Communications team for Carmel CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), responding to storm, flood, fire, and missing-person callouts across the Monterey Peninsula.
Beyond Carmel, Paul has organized environmental cleanup efforts worldwide. He has coordinated the removal of washed-up fishing nets from beaches in the Andaman Islands (India) and Gili Air (Indonesia), cleared truckloads of plastic debris from island shores in Utila and Roatán (Honduras), and supported cleanup initiatives in the Himalayan village of Malana, India — hiring local crews, porters, and transport teams to amplify the impact of each project.
An avid adventure traveler, Paul has visited more than 70 countries, from Tibet to Madagascar to Papua New Guinea and to the Amazon rainforests. He has completed over 120 skydives from military and civilian aircraft, more than a dozen bungee jumps worldwide, including the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, flown as a hang glider pilot (including teaching cliff launches at Lake Pillsbury, California), ridden high-performance sport motorcycles at the Laguna Seca racetrack in California, and taught triple-wick, fire staff spinning from Burning Man, Nevada, to Sri Lanka to Cambodia.
Paul holds a B.Sc. Honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton, England, and has held jobs with IBM Sales in London, England, and California. During his Silicon Valley career, Paul worked at eight high-tech startups implementing the Marketing and Sales tech stacks. He joined the business team that delivered broadband to Earth through @Home Network; supported Molecular Dynamics in advancing automated DNA sequencing technologies; and worked with Navio, a rights-based commerce company whose technology later evolved into platforms that deliver streaming content for Spotify.
As Creative Director, Paul founded Quest Assignments, a Silicon Valley brand agency delivering award-winning campaigns for clients including Verizon, NFL television commercials, and Times Square interactive digital billboards for Lexus.
Paul Falworth
Paul Falworth, founding
member of Carmel Bats
Paul is a founding member of Carmel Bats, a community volunteer, and a former Silicon Valley tech marketing executive now based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. He is known for leading local environmental and civic initiatives across the Monterey Peninsula.
At Carmel Bats, Paul personally designs and builds each bat box, intentionally over-engineering them to withstand decades of coastal wind, rain, and sun and ideally last 30 years or more in all weather conditions. With a steady backlog of adoption requests, he visits every prospective site to evaluate the building's or tree’s suitability, surrounding habitat conditions, and the homeowner’s commitment to long-term stewardship.
Paul has enjoyed some unforgettable bat encounters during his travels overseas. In Goa, India, while resting beneath a mango tree at 4:30 a.m. waiting for his guesthouse to open, he discovered that the warm rain drenching him wasn't coming from a passing cloud, it was a colony of bats peeing all over him. While traveling up the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea by motorized canoe, he sampled roasted bat, which, surprisingly, tasted just like chicken. In Indonesia, he witnessed thousands of giant fruit bats (flying foxes) emerging from the mangrove swamps near the Komodo Islands, filling the twilight sky with their enormous wings.
Beyond Carmel Bats, Paul leads Carmel Owls, a volunteer conservation organization dedicated to protecting Great Horned Owls throughout the Monterey Peninsula. Through community fundraising, homeowner outreach, volunteer coordination, and hands-on installations, Paul has helped spearhead the construction and installation of 29 nesting platforms across the region. His work brings together dozens of dedicated volunteers and local sponsors to restore owl nesting habitats, educate the community, and promote natural rodent control as an alternative to harmful poisons.
Paul also volunteers with Tag Team for Carmel Cares, which maintains the town’s aesthetic by removing graffiti and unauthorized stickers from public and private signs. He operates under the motto: “No stickers, no flyers, no graffiti — no exceptions.”
He is a member of Carmel-by-the-Sea VIPS (Volunteers in Police Service), where he typically serves in uniform at the Thursday Farmers Market. Paul also volunteers for the Radio Communications team for Carmel CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), responding to storm, flood, fire, and missing-person callouts across the Monterey Peninsula.
Beyond Carmel, Paul has organized environmental cleanup efforts worldwide. He has coordinated the removal of washed-up fishing nets from beaches in the Andaman Islands (India) and Gili Air (Indonesia), cleared truckloads of plastic debris from island shores in Utila and Roatán (Honduras), and supported cleanup initiatives in the Himalayan village of Malana, India — hiring local crews, porters, and transport teams to amplify the impact of each project.
An avid adventure traveler, Paul has visited more than 70 countries, from Tibet to Madagascar to Papua New Guinea and to the Amazon rainforests. He has completed over 120 skydives from military and civilian aircraft, more than a dozen bungee jumps worldwide, including the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, flown as a hang glider pilot (including teaching cliff launches at Lake Pillsbury, California), ridden high-performance sport motorcycles at the Laguna Seca racetrack in California, and taught triple-wick, fire staff spinning from Burning Man, Nevada, to Sri Lanka to Cambodia.
Paul holds a B.Sc. Honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton, England, and has held jobs with IBM Sales in London, England, and California. During his Silicon Valley career, Paul worked at eight high-tech startups implementing the Marketing and Sales tech stacks. He joined the business team that delivered broadband to Earth through @Home Network; supported Molecular Dynamics in advancing automated DNA sequencing technologies; and worked with Navio, a rights-based commerce company whose technology later evolved into platforms that deliver streaming content for Spotify.
As Creative Director, Paul founded Quest Assignments, a Silicon Valley brand agency delivering award-winning campaigns for clients including Verizon, NFL television commercials, and Times Square interactive digital billboards for Lexus.
