PAUL SCHAUT
CEO, Tira Wireless
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Paul Schaut brings more than 22 years of diverse and extensive technology experience to his role as President and CEO of Tira Wireless.  Under Paul’s guidance, the company has strengthened its leadership position in the mobile porting market, achieved tremendous growth, secured additional venture funding, and the Tira Jump Product Suite made its successful market debut. 

During his career, Paul has served in a number of sales, marketing and executive management capacities. Prior to joining Tira Wireless Paul served as President and CEO of Performaworks, a Goal-Driven Performance Management™ software company where he successfully ushered its growth and eventual sale to Workscape in March, 2004. Previously, Paul served as President and CEO of Engage, where he led the company through a dramatic growth period, including the integration of ten acquisitions, worldwide expansion, closure of private funding and a successful initial public offering.

Other executive management positions include tenure as Vice President of Strategic Partnering at Open Market. Prior to Open Market, he led the turnaround of an object technology company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and was Managing Director in Europe for a Client/Server DBMS System Provider (based in the UK for two years). Schaut served for many years in business development and sales roles for software and hardware technology companies, ranging from start-ups to large-sized companies.
 

Paul currently serves as a Board Trustee for the Massachusetts Software Council, is a Director of several private software companies, as well as a member of the CommonAngels® investment group. 

Paul has lived and worked throughout the United States and Europe. He graduated from San Jose State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration