After a long career in two different Navies, where he focused on navigation and pilotage, Paul Stanley began development work on PPUs in 2001. He subsequently started Navicom Dynamics in 2003, launching the HarbourPilot family of PPU systems.  

He was Managing Director of Navicom until the company was sold in 2013 then continued as a director until December 2016. Since then he has worked as a consultant on a part-time basis.