Linda Chaput has more than 20 years of experience at top executive levels in development and dissemination of educational products and materials. She is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Agile Mind, Inc. Before founding Agile Mind, she was President of Scientific American's education, general, professional and reference publishing, and founder and CEO of Cogito Learning Media, Inc. For 12 years at Scientific American, Linda was the President and Editorial Director of W.H. Freeman and Company (a wholly owned subsidiary of SA) and later also the President of Scientific American Medicine. During her tenure, Linda created an acquisitions and development group whose success rate for developing and publishing textbooks and reference books ranked among the highest in the industry. She oversaw the publication of books in biology, psychology, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and statistics characterized by innovation, rigor, and commercial success. Linda also directed the development and launch of the Scientific American Library, a landmark deluxe trade continuity series of illustrated books written by leading scientists for interested lay readers. As President of Scientific American Medicine, she oversaw the launch of its multimedia and online professional services, now a part of WebMD.

In 1995 Linda founded Cogito, a pioneering provider of top-quality multimedia and Internet-ready learning tools authored by authorities who were leaders in their fields. The audience was students in higher education, adults, and participants in high school gifted-and-talented programs. The company created, with authors and leading instructional designers and animators, authoritative content in science, mathematics, business, economics, and other critical competency, large-market subjects deliverable on a variety of platforms, including the Internet, CD-ROM, video, and print. Cogito became the value leader in a market previously dominated by free textbook supplements.

Gregg McFarland, Chief Operating Officer of Agile Mind, has more than 20 years of experience in private sector education technology. A CPA, Gregg began his career in the in the audit and consulting practice of KPMG and was a founding executive of Jostens Learning, an educational software publisher and services provider for pre-K to adult learners. During his tenure at Jostens, he held a number of executive positions including Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, Vice President and General Manager of Package Software, and Senior Vice President responsible for national sales, marketing, government relations, and customer service. In 1997, Gregg founded Whole Village Technology, a pioneer Educational Application Service Provider. In partnership with the state of Florida, Whole Village created ActionProfiler, a tool for enhancing parental involvement in student learning. After completing a merger of Whole Village, Gregg joined the Agile Mind founding team.

Clarence (Andy) Felong brings more than 25 years experience in software development, IT, quality assurance, operations and management to his role as Vice President of Engineering. Before joining Agile Mind, he was CTO and Vice President of Advanced Technology at Walmart.com where he and his team were responsible for the end-to-end eCommerce platform architecture and particularly for ensuring that it was scalable, available and secure. Andy was CTO and Vice President of Engineering at internet start-up more.com, where he was responsible for integrating business systems, including supply chain management, customer relationship management, and data warehouses with more.com's web portal. At Oracle Corporation, Andy was Vice President of the Internet Applications Division, with responsibility for technology management of eCommerce, Collaboration, Web Portals and Document Management. He also spent eight years at Apple Computer in a variety of capacities ranging from managing software development for the original PowerBooks to being Senior Director of Communications and Collaboration Technologies, which included responsibility for Apple's collaborative learning products. Andy began his career writing real-time imaging software for Voyager Spacecraft at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is an active contributor to the Open Source community and maintains an online resource of wearable computer technologies.

Toby Levenson, Senior Director of Program Development, is responsible for the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of all Agile Mind online services. She has over 15 years experience working as an educational designer, curriculum developer, and researcher. Prior to joining Agile Mind, Toby was Senior Research Associate for WestEd, where for five years she conducted scientific research studies on the effectiveness of mathematics and reading instructional technology materials; studied technology education curricula as it pertained to technology standards; and researched and provided recommendations to the Title I office of the US Department of Education for better supporting states' department of education in implementing NCLB. Before that, as Project Manager for WestEd's online efforts, she designed and developed two online professional development portals, one for online California School Leadership Academy courses for administrators and education leaders and the other providing educational technology resources for the western Regional Technology Education Center (RTEC).

Before WestEd, Toby was the Manager of the Educational Design group at The Learning Company. She is also the co-author of Bringing Technology Education into K-8 Classrooms (2005), published by NSTA, Corwin Press, and ITEA. She holds a MEd in interactive technology in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

David Savage comes Agile Mind with over 20 years of varied experience in K-12 education and brings a broad range of perspectives to his role as Vice President and National Director of Professional Services.

He started his career as a teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools, in suburban Washington, DC. During his ten years in Maryland, he was a math and science teacher at the Center for the Highly Gifted and later directed the Thematic Learning Center at a magnet school for math, science and technology. He also served as a professional developer, school improvement specialist and assistant principal. Through his work with the Maryland Governor's Academy for Science Math and Technology and the Smithsonian institution's National Science Resource Center he helped develop inquiry-centered science curricula for middle schools.

In 1996, David joined Edison Schools to lead the development and implementation of literacy programs. As Deputy Director of the Curriculum Division, he took over the Professional Development Department and launched an online professional learning system in partnership with Apex Learning. He opened the Wyatt-Edison Charter School in Denver Colorado, and later, as Senior Vice President, he led a team to develop the framework and protocol for supporting, monitoring, and evaluating program implementation and student achievement in its a national network of schools.

David left Edison to join Learn Now as Senior Vice President of Education. In 2002, he joined the Council for Basic Education as Vice President and led the development of the Principals' Leadership Academy.

Before coming to Agile Mind, he was Director of Professional Services for Teachscape, where he led the team responsible for the recruitment, training, support, and supervision of the company's consultants and developed and coordinated face-to-face and online professional learning programs for consultants and service personnel.

David received his undergraduate degree from Valparaiso University and his Masters from the Johns Hopkins University, where he also taught courses in special education and pedagogy in its graduate program.

Deborah Zimmerman has more than 15 years of experience producing educational technology. As Agile Mind's Executive Producer, she directs the design and production of our online content. Debbie began her career at Stanford University, as part of a pioneering group working on early multimedia educational technologies in collaboration with Apple Computer, IBM and NeXT. She worked with Stanford educators to produce and deliver innovative uses of these technologies into high school and university classrooms. She moved from there to work at Silicon Valley companies Pensare, Inc. and Aplia, Inc. where she built and directed production teams to create web-based educational services used at hundreds of colleges and universities across the US. In these efforts, Debbie and her colleagues collaborated with educators at Harvard University, Duke University, the Wharton School of Business and the Annenberg Foundation at USC. Before joining Agile Mind, Debbie worked as an independent consultant, providing strategic advice, user-interface design, proposal writing, and her favorite work--design of online learning interactions--for a variety of clients. Debbie holds an Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

An Important Part of Company History

Adele Goldberg, a computer scientist with more than 25 years of experience in technology invention and development, was a founder of the company and its chief technologist for four years. Although she is no longer a part of the company's technical leadership, Adele led the technical development of Internet-based authoring, content presentation, behavior tracking, and learning management technologies for Agile Mind. Before that, Adele was founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board at ParcPlace Systems, a successful spin-off from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where she had been a principal scientist and manager of the learning research laboratory. During her career at Xerox PARC, Adele directed the team credited with creating the first purely object-oriented programming language, Smalltalk-80. Adele is former President of the Association for Computing Machinery. She served as the National Secretary and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computing Surveys. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Exploratorium, where she chairs the Advisory Council; on the Visiting Committee of the Physical Sciences Division of the University of Chicago; and is a trustee of the International Computer Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA.