All About ZONAR

ZONAR Corporation was established in 1981 by David and Margaret Sullivan, who had met at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology twenty years earlier. Dave was a Computer Software Engineer, and Maggie a Paralegal, and both had been founders of an earlier computer startup, C3 Inc., which they had left in the mid-1970s.

The new company was named “ZONAR”, which Dave had chosen as an eleven-year-old when he entered the Space Patrol TV show “Name the Planet Contest”. It won a second prize then, and seemed appropriate for a state-of-the-art software development firm for the future.

ZONAR operated continuously from its Northern Virginia offices until, after Dave contracted Stage IV cancer in 2004, they were forced to reduce the scope of operations and ultimately cease operating as a corporation. The ZONAR technology, however, is alive and well, as are Maggie & Dave.

ZONAR’s most advanced creation – Information Object Technology – is described in great detail on this website; and Dave welcomes inquiries from business or academic institutions wanting to learn more. Dave is also available for advanced consulting and software design and development engagements.

Dave can be contacted by email at Dave@ZONAR.com.

To learn more about ZONAR’s 40-year history and its full scope of technology innovations, look at ZONAR’s Information Technology History.

To see some of ZONAR’s Vintage marketing materials from the 1990s, look at 20th Century Marketing.