SmartDraw.com - Management Team

Paul Stannard is the founder and CEO of SmartDraw.com. A self-taught software developer, Stannard began his career in the PC industry in 1980, founding a software company that developed software for Apple computers. Since that time, he has written more than a dozen published software applications, primarily graphics software. Stannard, himself, wrote the first version of SmartDraw, and continues to play a key role in developing the company's software products.

Stannard has also written applications for other software companies, including Microsoft^®, Broderbund, Intuit and GraphPad Software. He has been a successful software company CEO for more than twenty years, founding several other start-ups.

An innovator and expert in software user-interface design and development, Stannard created MegaForm, the first graphical form design software in 1985 and Org Plus, the first graphical organization chart program for the Macintosh and Windows^® in 1989.

Paul Stannard is also a pioneer and recognized authority in electronic software distribution and Internet Marketing and speaks frequently on the subject. SmartDraw.com has been a leader in this field since Stannard founded the company and began selling over the Internet in 1994.

Stannard holds a bachelor's and master's degree from Oxford University, and earned a PhD. in chemistry from UCLA.

He currently serves on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Libraries Advisory Board and has previously served as the chairman of the San Diego Software and Internet Council.

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