Claim: Los Angeles Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Awardee and founder of the parallel processing technologies company Parasoft, Adam Kolawa founded the company in 1987.
Evidence: In 1987, he founded Parasoft with four friends from Caltech. Kolawa co-authored two books on Development Testing and Software Testing In 2001, Kolawa was awarded the Los Angeles Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Software category. Initially, the company focused on parallel processing technologies.