software entrepreneur
Greater Pittsburgh Area
- Current
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- Principal Consultant at Automata, Inc.
- Past
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- Chairman at Haley Systems, Inc.
- CEO at Haley Enterprise, Inc.
- VP, R&D at Intelligent Technology Group
- Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University
- Chief Scientist at Inference Corporation
- First Employee at Carnegie Group
- Project Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University
- Statistician at Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center
- Research Assistant at Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Astronomer at McCormick Observatory
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Washington
- University of Virginia
- Connections
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180
connections
- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Paul Haley’s Summary
Veteran software technologist and business developer specializing in Artificial Intelligence with decades of experience selling, developing and applying advanced technology in securities, banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, and government applications.
Paul Haley’s Specialties:
Technology strategy and business development,;IPO / LBO/ VC / M&A experience; Complex, consultative sales, licensing and contracts
Paul Haley’s Experience
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Principal Consultant
Automata, Inc.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Automata, Inc. is building systems that acquire knowledge, make decisions, solve problems and answer questions using learning, natural language, semantic and reasoning technologies while providing software technology and business development services to high technology companies, venture capitalists, and Global 2000 clients.
In addition to software and high technology expertise, Automata has substantial experience in public and private sector health, human and financial services, including regulatory compliance from either perspective, in multiple capital market, banking, and insurance sectors.
Services typically address business or strategic planning, product marketing or project management, technology or vendor assessment, education or training, and design or implementation.
Typical vendor involvement includes business intelligence or business rule products from Oracle/Haley, IBM/Ilog, SAP, TIBCO, Fair Isaac, Microsoft, Red Hat, or certain other reliable, established open source implementations. When required, machine learning, semantic, or natural language technologies from certain vendors or similarly reliable, established, open and standards-compliant implementations may be involved. -
Chairman
Haley Systems, Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — November 2008 (4 years 5 months)
Rebranding of Haley Enterprise, Inc. after accepting venture capital investment following the largest OEM license in the BPM/BRMS industry (with Oracle, who subsequently acquired the company in 2008)
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CEO
Haley Enterprise, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
August 1989 — July 2004 (15 years )
Self-funding artificial intelligence software vendor recognized by Gartner as the visionary technology leader in business rules and by IDC and Forrester as the most accessible business rules management system for non-programmers and general purpose BPM.
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VP, R&D
Intelligent Technology Group
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1987 — August 1989 (2 years 6 months)
LBO funded development of software that discovered reliable portfolios of program trading strategies using natural language processing to extract qualitative variables from newswires and expert systems technology to hypothesize models combining qualitative and quantitative time series data and evaluate results obtained using commercial statistical software..
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Visiting Lecturer
Stanford University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 1988 — May 1988 (5 months)
Taught graduate program in artificial intelligence architectures
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Chief Scientist
Inference Corporation
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1984 — February 1987 (3 years )
Led the design and implementation of the first commercial rule engine to combine forward and backward chaining using the Rete Algorithm, i.e., the Automated Reasoning Tool from which NASA derived CLIPS from which Sandia Natl Labs derived JESS. ART was also the first rule engine to support taxonomic, logical, and hypothetical reasoning.
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First Employee
Carnegie Group
(Computer Software industry)
January 1984 — February 1984 (2 months)
Assisted professorial co-founders with the business plan and initial contracts at this one of Business Week's "Gang of Four" artificial intelligence companies.
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Project Scientist
Carnegie Mellon University
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
March 1981 — December 1983 (2 years 10 months)
Led a dozen staff and industry apprentices in the development of several of the first commercially successful expert systems and contributed to the early commercialization of OPS5 and the formation of Carnegie Group, Inc.
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Statistician
Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center
(Research industry)
June 1979 — January 1981 (1 year 8 months)
various statistical analyses for health and social services research team
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Research Assistant
Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics
(Research industry)
May 1978 — September 1978 (5 months)
sophisticated manufacturing of targets for nuclear accelerator experiments
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Astronomer
McCormick Observatory
(Research industry)
September 1976 — May 1978 (1 year 9 months)
photographed and precisely measured stellar fields and positions using the world's largest refracting telescope
Paul Haley’s Education
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Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Certificate , Technology Commercialization , 1997 — 1998
Courses and lectures in high technology entrepreneurialism
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Carnegie Mellon University
Artificial Intelligence 1981 — 1983
post graduate courses while on staff
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University of Washington
MS , Computer Science , 1979 — 1981
Neural Systems
Cognitive Science
Aritifical Intelligence -
University of Virginia
BS , Astronomy and Physics , 1975 — 1979
Awarded PhD fellowship in Nuclear Physics
- Activities and Societies:
- Delta Upsilon Fraternity
