Paul Sarvadi, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Administaff and its subsidiaries, is a Class II director and has been a director and Chairman of the Board since the Company’s inception in 1986.
He has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 1989. He also served as President of the Company from 1989 until August 21, 2003. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and Treasurer of the Company from its inception in 1986 until April 1987, and then as Vice President from April 1987 until 1989.
He attended Rice University and the University of Houston prior to starting and operating several small companies. Paul has served as President of National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO) and was a member of its Board of Directors for five years. He also served as President of the Texas Chapter of the NAPEO for three of the first four years of its existence.
Paul serves on the Board of Trustees of the DePelchin Children’s Center in Houston. In 1995, he was selected as Houston’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for service industries and in 2001, he was selected as the 2001 National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for service industries. In 2004, he received the Conn Family Distinguished New Venture Leader Award from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. In 2007, he was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame.