OUR COMPANY MANAGEMENT

Charles Simonyi is chairman, CTO and founder of Intentional Software Corporation. The company accelerates innovation by integrating business domain experts into the software production process.

Simonyi was at Microsoft Corporation from 1981 to 2002, where he was Director of Application Development, Chief Architect, and Distinguished Engineer. While at Microsoft, Simonyi hired and managed teams that developed Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other best selling software applications. Simonyi worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) from 1972-1980 where he created the first WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editor called Bravo. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Simonyi earned his B.S. in engineering mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University. He received a honorary doctorate from the University of Pecs in Hungary, in 2001. Simonyi has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1997, elected for his contributions to "widely used productivity software.” He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008, and a Correspondent Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Simonyi has been serving on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1998 and elected to be the Chairman of the Board starting in 2008. He has endowed a chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University and a chair for Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, among numerous other educational and charitable contributions through the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences.

Simonyi is an avid collector of modern art, enjoys classical music and is an experienced pilot. He participated in the Soyuz TMA-10 mission in 2007 and the Soyuz TMA-14 mission in 2009 to the International Space Station.

In addition to being president of Intentional Software Corporation, Eric Anderson is also one of the leading entrepreneurs in the space industry and is credited for having created and validated the market for space tourism. Anderson co-founded Space Adventures in 1998 and serves as the company’s Chairman. As president of Space Adventures, Anderson built a reputation for successfully creating markets, commercializing newly developed technologies, and deploying capabilities in the global marketplace that were hitherto unavailable. Since 2001, Anderson sold more than $250 million (USD) in spaceflights, including all eight orbital missions of private space explorers to the International Space Station.

Recently, Anderson was an Ernst & Young 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, and is a member of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. In 2008, Anderson won the “CEO of the Year” award, presented by Smart CEO magazine. Anderson is a Board Member of the X Prize Foundation and the Koshka Foundation. He is also a founder of the Planetary Security Foundation.

Anderson graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia with a bachelor of science in aerospace engineering.

Magnus Christerson is driving the productization and go-to-market strategies for Intentional Software Corporation's technology.

Prior to joining Intentional Software Corporation, Christerson held multiple positions at Rational Software (acquired by IBM in February 2003) including Director of Product Management and Director of Product Strategy. From 1995 to 2003, Christerson was instrumental in building an industry leadership position for Rational Rose, the leading UML product for designing and generating software programs. Christerson joined Rational in 1995 when Rational acquired Objectory, a software startup where he held various software development and product management roles. Christerson is co-author with Ivar Jacobson of Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A Use Case Driven Approach, Addison-Wesley 1992.

Christerson holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and Technology from Lund Institute of Technology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Hartley Paul formed Intentional Software Corporation as outside counsel, and joined the company as an officer two months later.

Paul practiced law with the firm of Lane Powell PC in Seattle since 1963, where he specialized in business and securities law for private and publicly held enterprises. Paul earned his AB degree from Dartmouth College in 1959, and his MBA degree from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth in 1960. At Tuck School he was a student in one of the first computer classes ever presented in any business school, thanks to the foresight of professor John Kemeny who co-authored the BASIC computer language. He returned to the Northwest to attain his JD degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 1963, where he was elected to Order of the Coif National Law School Honor Society and served as Business Editor of the Washington Law Review.

Having raced on the Dartmouth Ski Team, Paul continues to ski often during the winter and pilots his family float plane in British Columbia during the summer.