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| Armyn E. Carabet, CEO and Founder |
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Carabet brings a tremendously successful business history to ClickN KIDS. In the last fifteen years Carabet has owned and operated many successful companies. His experience as an owner, franchisor, franchisee, marketing director and general manager have provided him with the insight, understanding, work ethics and capabilities to successfully lead ClickN KIDS, Inc. His business highlights include: Co-Founder of TyRyMow Affiliated Holdings, a California company with many successful business enterprises, such as Money Mailer Gold Coast, a nationally recognized marketing and direct mail franchise and a former partner and Marketing Director of Norman International Inc., an international import, export and manufacturing company. |
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| Alan Scalone, President, Chief Technology Officer and Founder |
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Scalone brings to the Company 24 years of Fortune 100 Corporate tenure. Mr. Scalone began his professional career in 1979 with Honeywell Corporation's Process Control computer division in Phoenix, AZ developing software systems that control paper mills, oil refineries and electric utility plants. Mr. Scalone completed his tenure with Honeywell 10 years later as a Senior Systems Engineer for the division's elite global post sales technical support group. He then took on the task of establishing and managing the hardware and software manufacturing quality assurance departments for Hypercom, Inc. which led to the successful launch and dominate market penetration of their Point of Sale credit card transaction processing product line. After Hypercom, Scalone accepted a Senior Engineering position in Motorola's Corporate Applications Engineering department where he designed and developed Motorola's worldwide Intranet communications software systems. In 1993, Mr. Scalone formed his own consulting company and for the last 10 years has provided business development services to startup corporations. |
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| J. Ron Nelson, Ph.D., Author ClickN READ Phonics |
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J. Ron Nelson, Ph.D., consulted with the company during the design and development of ClickN READ Phonics and continues to advise the company on all current and future curriculum. Dr. Nelson not only authored the reading curriculum, but designed the digital program, ClickN READ Phonics, as well as was given creative control over all aspects of the final delivered product.
Dr. Nelson has a prolific research career that spans 17 years working with our nation's top universities and educators. Dr. Nelson has a national reputation as an effective researcher and received the 2000 Distinguished Initial Career Research Award by the Council for Exceptional Children. He has secured over 14 million dollars of external funding and published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and books that focus on serving children at risk of school failure and research issues. Dr. Nelson has also presented at more than 150 conferences.
Dr. Nelson has extensive training and experience in explicit instructional design principles, applied research methodologies, and risk factor developmental pathways for behavior and learning problems. He has studied the language and reading skills of children with mental health problems (Benner, Nelson, & Epstein, 2002; Nelson, Benner, Lane, & Smith, 2004; Nelson & Roberts, 2000) and identified key learner characteristics that negatively influence the outcomes of literacy interventions (Nelson, Benner, & Gonzalez, 2003). |
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| James Highfill, Chief Operations Officer |
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Mr. Highfill was a co-founder and partner of Gold Coast Partners, a nationwide direct marketing/advertising agency. During his tenure with Gold Coast Partners, Mr. Highfill's contribution was for the expansion of business. Particular focus was with emphasis toward building client relationships with organizations that could benefit from nationwide marketing campaigns. Thereafter, Mr. Highfill worked at Amwest Surety Insurance Company as Lead Analyst and Countrywide Home Loans as a Vice President of Technology. Specifically, he is tasked with alignment of the company's core competencies to the mission and vision of Countrywide. Mr. Highfill looks at the use of technology in supporting sales, banking operations, treasury and A/P functions and, finally, for loan pricing. Mr. Highfill holds both Bachelors of Science and Masters degrees in Finance, Banking and Management. |
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| Scott Blackwell, National Sales Manager |
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As the founder and President of two successful recording companies Scott Blackwell has over 15 years experience in marketing and promoting media and has been awarded 3 Gold and Platinum records for album recordings of Madonna, Taylor Dayne and Debbie Gibson. His internationally distributed labels successfully pioneered un-chartered waters for boutique recording companies. As a member of the ClickN KIDS team Blackwell brings to his position the ability to think outside of the box and create new opportunities in the emerging Affiliate landscape. |
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| Steve Deutsch, Vice President of Client Relations |
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Former President of technology firm Zen Media Agency, Deutsch has proven over his last 15 years to be a skilled business
developer and customer relationship manager with a distinct and loyal client base. He has been selected for several top producer performance awards over this period of time and sits on the Board of MICROMLS.com. Deutsch attended UCLA and USC as a Theatre Arts major. From 1996 to 1999, with a Black belt in Tae Kwon Do and guidance from Page Military Academy, he was selected as head of security/bodyguard for Walter H. Annenberg (former Ambassador to England under Nixon and sold TV Guide media group to Rupert Murdoch for $3 billion) and traveled with him around the world. Further, Deutsch has extensive experience in procuring and negotiating high dollar volume investment and real estate transactions. |
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| Felicia Scalone, Affiliate Manager |
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Ms. Scalone brings to ClickN KIDS years of professional experience handling marketing for both large and small companies. Felicia was the Marketing Manager of the highly successful online auction company, BIDZ.com. Felicia's tenure at BIDZ as well as Affiliate Manager of Almond Networks, both being online companies, further qualifies her to serve ClickN KIDS. |
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