Paul Trevor Collard (7 July 1952 – 28 December 2005) was an entrepreneur who founded U.S. Robotics in 1976 with Casey Cowell and Steve Muka.
He went to the Weston-super-Mare Grammar School for Boys, and graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in applied physics.
While working at the University of Chicago's Computation Center, Collard joined up with Casey Cowell, Stephen Muka, Stan Metcalf, and Tom Rossen to form U.S. Robotics.
After attending a lecture at the University of Chicago on solar power, Collard left to start Midway Labs a solar power company using Roland Winston's non-imaging optics to build concentrator solar electric panels.
Paul Collard married Rebecca Janowitz from Chicago.