John M. Barrie, Ph.D. President/CEO

Dr. John Barrie created the original architecture and fundamental technology behind iThenticate and Turnitin in 1994. Dr. Barrie is currently the President and CEO of iParadigms and continues to provide the vision of digital intellectual property detection in published material. As spokesperson for the company, Dr. Barrie has become a national leader and expert on the problem of plagiarism in education, and has given numerous keynote presentations on this subject. He has been interviewed by many well-known and respected media outlets such as CNN, ABC (Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings), CBS (48 Hours with Dan Rather/60 Minutes with Morley Safer), BBC, the New York Times, USA Today, and many others.

Dr. Barrie completed his undergraduate studies in Rhetoric and Neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, and he holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics (with a specialty in Neurobiology) from Berkeley as well. The emphasis of his prior research was the characterization of spatiotemporal aspects of the neocortical EEG as a tool for understanding how memory and perception function; he has published multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts on the topic.

Dr. Barrie's vision is now changing ideas about education in the digital era. Turnitin is used by millions of students and faculty in more than 85 countries (including every university in the United Kingdom), and receives nearly forty thousand student papers each day.

Sally Elliott, Chief Operating Officer

Sally Elliott is an academic publishing veteran and information technology executive with long time experience in building higher education and lifelong learning business ventures. Prior to joining iParadigms, Ms. Elliott was the President of True Outcomes (a Cengage Learning company) from 2005 to 2007 and CEO of Aplia Inc., a content delivery and services company focused on providing economic content to the higher education community from 2001 to 2005. Ms. Elliott served as the VP of Product Development at Pensare, Inc., a start up company focused on web-based tools for corporate executive and management education and training from 1998 to 2001, responsible for all areas of product concept and development. From 1976 to 1997, Ms. Elliott was a leader in the academic publishing community notably: Senior Editor at MacMillan Publishing (1981-1983) and President at Benjamin/Cummings Publishing (1989-1996) and President, Consumer Publishing Group at Addison Wesley Longman (1997). Ms. Elliott also served as a Board Director for Addison Wesley Longman from 1994 to 1997.

Ms. Elliott manages the Turnitin Sales, Business Development and Marketing units of iParadigms.

Melissa Lipscomb, CFO & EVP of Business Affairs

Melissa Lipscomb, CFO & EVP, Business Affairs. Melissa Lipscomb is a founder of the Company and was its Chief Operating Officer from 2005 to 2007. Ms. Lipscomb also managed the Company's UK operations from 2002 to 2004. Ms. Lipscomb has dual degrees in English and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to collaborating on the foundation of iParadigms in 1994, Ms. Lipscomb worked in the nonprofit and not-for-profit sectors, most notably as the sole operations and finance staff member for the current Attorney General (and former Mayor of Oakland and 2-time Governor of CA), Jerry Brown, then, the head of an Oakland-based non-profit organization, We The People, and was responsible for organizational development, large-scale volunteer coordination and supervision, and fund contribution management. Ms. Lipscomb moved to France for a year and returned to begin work with iParadigms' founding team, concurrently working in UC Berkeley's Finance administration until 2000. Ms. Lipscomb was responsible for the initial research leading to the inception of iParadigms, Inc., as a formal entity.

Ms. Lipscomb manages the Company's Accounting, Administration, Human Resources and Business Affairs units. She is also the Company's LLC Secretary, responsible for corporate affairs and investor relations.

Christian Storm, Ph.D. CTO

Dr. Christian Storm is one of the founding members of iParadigms and has served as iParadigms Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since the inception of the company in 1994. Dr. Storm came to iParadigms as a graduate student in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has focused on the creation of novel similarity search algorithms, architecting internet crawler technology, and search systems which span heterogeneous databases.

Dr. Storm received his doctorate in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. His work at Berkeley began with analyzing the stability of biologically inspired pattern recognition systems, which utilize nonlinear dynamics as their information-processing medium. From this research he developed a nonlinear systems identification methodology that can track nonlinear switching events in near real time. He authored a paper ("Detection and Classification of Nonlinear Switching Events," Phys Rev E Vol. 66, 2002) on the application of this methodology to breaking hyperchaotic key shifting codes used in secure communications. Using this methodology he also demonstrated that epileptic seizures can be anticipated in advance of seizure onset by 15 or more minutes in a large fraction of seizures. Prior to his doctoral work at Berkeley he was a member of the weather-sensing group at MIT Lincoln Labs.

Max-Emmanuel Briand, CIO

Max-Emmanuel Briand is one of the founding members of iParadigms and has been the company's Chief Information Officer (CIO) since its inception. Mr. Briand created and built the company's network topology and operating system configuration. He currently manages the company's Information Technology Department and its co-location facility staff. Mr. Briand is also the company's media spokesperson for the French and French-speaking nations' press, having been interviewed extensively by publications such as France's Figaro and Le Monde, and Quebec, Canada's public radio programs.

Mr. Briand received a degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in a variety of industries, from the travel-writing business to systems administration management at Silicon Valley startups. He brings solid IT experience to the team's technology management team, and has been instrumental in brokering the company's partnerships with key IT companies throughout the Bay Area.