Paul Ford is Co-Founder of Aboard, a New York City-based AI transformation consulting and custom software company helping organizations modernize their tech stacks at record speed.

Paul earned a BA in English Literature from Alfred University and co-founded Postlight in 2015, a design and digital strategy agency that grew to 100 employees before being acquired by NTT Data in 2022.

Recognized as one of the world's leading technology thinkers, Paul authored a landmark 38,000-word piece in Bloomberg Businessweek titled 'What is Code,' which won a National Magazine Award in 2016.

Paul is a regular columnist at WIRED and has contributed to Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and MIT Technology Review, uniquely blending deep technical expertise with cultural storytelling.

Aboard's AI-accelerated enterprise product cuts software development timelines by up to 40%, and the team has delivered solutions to Fortune 100 companies and major NGOs, including scaling health analytics across 400 nonprofits in six months.