William Woodward

William Russell "Bill" Woodward (born August 24, 1959) is an American venture capitalist who founded Paracomp, one of the predecessor companies that formed Macromedia.

Education
Woodward received a B.S. in business from the.

Career
Woodward founded Westwood Management at the age of 23 and then Woodriver Capital in.

In January 1987, Woodward founded software publisher Paracomp in San Francisco. In 1991, Paracomp merged with MacroMind to briefly form MacroMind-Paracomp, which merged with Authorware Inc. in the following year to become Macromedia.

In 1996, Woodward co-founded Pulse Entertainment with Rich Bean and former Paracomp colleague Young Harvill.

After Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in December 2005, Woodward returned to being a full-time venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners, based in, California.

Personal life
In 2007, Woodward purchased a home in, California from film music composer.