chairman and CEO

Michael W. Allen is known for pioneering multimedia learning technologies, interactive instructional paradigms, and rapid-prototyping processes — bringing each forward into leading corporate enterprises. He was the founder and CEO of Authorware, Inc., a revolutionary e-learning authoring tool. Authorware, Inc. merged with MacroMind/Paracomp to become Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe. With a Ph.D. in educational psychology from The Ohio State University, he is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, a sought after conference speaker, and a prolific writer.