Robert C. Bowen
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
Robert C. Bowen joined us in June 2002, bringing more than three decades of consistent success in building market leadership and shareholder value in the education market. From 1989 to 2001, Mr. Bowen served as a senior executive and officer of National Computer Systems (NCS). In his last assignment as president of NCS Education Software and Services, he built this K-12 business into the market leader of enterprise software solutions with a 40 percent market share. NCS was sold to Pearson PLC in the fall of 2000. Immediately prior to joining us, Mr. Bowen served as a strategic consultant to leading providers of instructional and administrative technology solutions in education.
Mr. Bowen has also held senior executive positions with other leading education companies including seventeen years with McGraw-Hill. He last served as executive vice president of McGraw-Hill's Education and Training group, which included seven divisions with total revenues of approximately $350 million. Early in his career, Mr. Bowen was a high school math teacher, a coach, and a school district administrator. Mr. Bowen received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.
Andy Myers
President and Chief Operating Officer
Andy Myers joined us as President and Chief Operating Officer in January 2008. Prior to joining us, he worked at Pearson Education since 1997. His last position was as Senior Vice President, Digital Product Development for Pearson Curriculum, where he was responsible for integrating the technology teams from six preceding business units into a digital development group of 275 employees.
From August 2004 to March 2007, Mr. Myers was the Chief Operations Officer for Pearson Digital Learning, where he was responsible for setting product, financial, technical and operational strategies for that 580-employee business unit. From 2002 to 2004, he served as Vice President Sales for Pearson Digital Learning. He started with Pearson as a sales representative in 1996. Pearson Education is the education division of Pearson PLC, an international media company.
Mr. Myers holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and a BA in finance from the University of Utah.
Jane A. Freeman
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
Jane A. Freeman joined us as vice president, finance and treasurer in August 1999 and was named our chief financial officer in January 2000. Prior to joining us Ms. Freeman spent 20 years in the investment business. From 1988 through 1998, she was employed by Rockefeller & Co., a global investment firm, where she led the global asset allocation process, managed the U.S Small Cap equity product and served on the Management Committee of the firm. She is director of four mutual funds managed by Harding Loevner, LLP.
Ms. Freeman holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and chemistry and an M.B.A. (with distinction) from Cornell University and a License in Applied Economics from the University of Louvain in Belgium.
William M. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Senior Vice
President, Product Development
William M. Jenkins is one of our founders, and is an expert in learning-based brain plasticity, behavioral algorithms, and psychophysical methods, as well as multimedia and Internet technology. He joined the company at inception from a position as an associate professor at the Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences at the University of California San Francisco.
Dr. Jenkins is an author or co-author on more than 100 publications including 13 commercial software products, 46 US patents, and 12 foreign patents that underlie Scientific Learning's commercial products. Dr. Jenkins' work was recognized by Discovery Magazine in their 1996 annual Awards for Technology Innovations and most recently by the Year 2000 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award.
Dr. Jenkins earned a bachelor's degree in psychology, and a master's degree and a Ph.D. in psychobiology from Florida State University. Dr. Jenkins received additional training in neurophysiology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Steven L. Miller, Ph.D.
Senior Vice
President, Research
Steven L. Miller, a founder of Scientific Learning Corporation, is a neuropsychologist with expertise in the assessment and treatment of developmental language and reading impairments. He joined the company at inception, after serving as a research associate professor at Rutgers University.
Dr. Miller has extensive experience in organizing multi-site clinical studies and conducting longitudinal studies of children and adults who have language and reading problems in the U.S. and internationally. His work has resulted in numerous scientific publications, software products, patents and awards.
Dr. Miller earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Bloomsburg University, a master's degree in neuroscience from the University of Hartford, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received additional training in the neuropsychology of reading at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University.
Linda Carloni
Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary
Linda L. Carloni joined us in October 1999. Prior to joining us, she was a founder and vice president of Alere Medical Incorporated, a health care services start-up. Previously, she served as a senior licensing officer for the University of California Office of Technology Transfer; as the general counsel of Nellcor Incorporated, a medical device company; and an associate and a partner at the law firm of Cooley Godward LLP.
Ms. Carloni holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Case Western Reserve University and a law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Louise Dube
Vice President,
General Manager Speech Products
Louise Dube joined us as Vice President, General Manager Speech Product in January 2008. She began her career in publishing with Integrated Media Group, a division of International Thomson Publishing. From 1996 to 1999, she served as General Manager at Learningways—a developer of innovative technology products to the educational publishing industry—where she headed the product development teams for many CD-ROM titles for the school and consumer channels including Geometry Blaster, Kaplan Middle and High School Success, and Score Grades 3 and 4.
In 1999, Ms. Dube was promoted to the position of VP, Business Unit Manager for the General Learning category with Vivendi Universal. She headed Syracuse Language Systems and the “Tween” study help category. During her tenure, she significantly increased retail market share. She developed and launched the new “Learn My Way” line of speech recognition based foreign language acquisition products as well as the “Success” line of study aids for middle and high school students.
Ms. Dube joined Soliloquy Learning in 2002 where she oversaw product management for the Reading Assistant product, and the licensing of the Soliloquy technology to publishing partners.
Ms. Dube is passionate about letting users come first and producing high quality educational products that are considerate of teachers and the realities of the educational environment. Louise has two avid readers as advisers: her children, Simon and Daniel.
Ms. Dube holds a law degree from McGill University and an MBA from Yale University.
Jessica Lindl
Vice President,
Marketing
Jessica J. Lindl joined us in March 2007. Previously, Ms. Lindl served as vice president of marketing and product management for Riverdeep, a leading developer of educational software. Ms. Lindl held marketing management positions of increasing responsibility at Riverdeep and The Learning Company, which was acquired by Riverdeep, from 2001 through 2006. Prior to her tenure at Riverdeep, Ms. Lindl served as the director of product management for Simplexis, an e-procurement provider for the K-12 market, in 2000 and 2001 and as part of the sales management team for AT&T in San Francisco from 1995 to 1998.
Ms. Lindl holds a bachelor's degree in economics and international studies from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Gillian A. McCormack
Vice President, Customer
Operations
Gillian A. McCormack joined us in October 2002. Ms. McCormack has over two decades of experience in the educational software business, including leadership and direction in educational consulting, technical services, and customer support to school districts nationwide. She has a consistent track record of creating successful, innovative offerings, using a combination of internal, technology-based services and contract services, while simultaneously growing revenue, improving profit, and increasing customer satisfaction.
Prior to joining Scientific Learning, Ms. McCormack served as vice president of professional and technical services for NCS Learn (Pearson Education); vice president of customer support for NovaNET; and director of educational services for Jostens Learning (currently CompassLearning) .
Ms. McCormack began her career as an elementary and middle school teacher and was a master of teacher training for her school district. She holds bachelor's degrees in elementary education and special education from the University of Arizona.
Sherrelle Jiggitts Walker
Chief Education
Officer
Sherrelle Jiggitts Walker joined us as our Chief Education Officer in July 2002. She is responsible for expanding awareness among educators nationwide about how our products and services can help significantly improve student learning and achievement. She provides leadership in setting product and implementation strategy and evaluates potential partnerships and acquisitions. Prior to joining us, she served as vice president of curriculum for Pearson's NCS Learn business. Ms. Walker has more than 25 years of experience in education as a teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent. During her extensive career in education, Ms. Walker played a leading role in the development of the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements.
She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Washington, specializing in improving teacher impact in the classroom and throughout the school. She also established one of the nation's first Internet Academies for students, and has served on various boards in education, including the Executive Council of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).
Ms. Walker has received numerous awards for her role in education and in the community, such as the NAACP Cultural Arts Award, the Jefferson Award for the state of Connecticut, and the Outstanding Leadership Award for Washington State in Education. She completed her bachelor's degree in teaching at Hampton University in Virginia, and her master's degree and doctoral coursework at the University of Connecticut.