Founder and CEO
Paul Stannard is the founder and CEO of SmartDraw Software. 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 Software 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.