Paul McOwen, Chiliad's President, leads our strategic business development efforts. In this role, Paul has led engagements to extend the capabilities of the Chiliad Discovery platform with several major U.S. government agencies to deliver critical information management solutions These include the Investigative Data Warehouse, described by the FBI as “the central database in the FBI's information sharing approach in the post-9/11 world” and “one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents.”

Paul joined Chiliad in 1999. Four years earlier, he co-founded Sovereign Hill Software where he served as acting CEO during the company’s first profitable year, then as a corporate vice-president until the company’s acquisition in 1999.

From 1987 to 1995, Paul served as Associate Chairman and then Deputy Chairman of the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. There, he played a key role in establishing the National Science Foundation’s Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). He served as Administrative Director of the CIIR for its first four years, helping to secure more than $20 million in funding from Fortune 500 corporations, the U.S. Government, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Paul also served as Co-Founder, Executive Director, and Board Member of the Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts, a university-affiliated private research institute. And from 1982 to 1987, Paul was Founder and President of Amherst Computer Associates, a software consulting company.

Paul received a B.S. in Education and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and pursued doctoral studies in Civil Engineering with a research focus on intelligent information systems.