Español

About Us - Management Team

Management Team

Board of Directors and Advisors

"Many thanks for your great program! I am a homeschooling mother of a 9 year old with autism and thanks to ClickN READ Phonics she is finally learning how to read! It's very exciting to watch." Helen Baxter, Homeschool Parent, Canberra, Australia

ClickN KIDS Was Created To Marry Education, Technology And Business
ClickN KIDS mission is to become the foremost provider of engaging and highly interactive software and scientific research based curriculums, for use in an online deliverable format. ClickN KIDS is utilizing the power of the Internet to deliver interactive and individualized programs that couple sound instructional design with state-of-the-art technology to deliver instruction unrestricted by geography or time. Our beginning reading program ClickN READ Phonics is regarded by the academic community as cutting edge and the first of its kind. ClickN READ Phonics is a proven concept for teaching children to read and retain with measurable results.

Armie Carabet, Founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Carabet brings a tremendously successful business history to ClickN KIDS. In the last fifteen years Mr. 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.

Alan Ray Scalone, Founder, Director and SVP Business Development

Mr. Scalone brings to the Company 20 years of Fortune 100 corporate tenure as well as 5 years startup venture consulting. Mr. Scalone began his professional career in 1979 as a software programmer for Honeywell Corporation's Process Control computer division in Phoenix, Arizona 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 market penetration of Hypercom's Point of Sale credit card transaction processing product line. After Hypercom, Mr. 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.

James Highfill, Chief Operations Officer

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 focusing on the integration of retail bail bond operations into the corporate structure and governance of Amwest (NYSE: AMW). Thereafter James applied his skills at Countrywide Home Loans as a Vice President of Finance and Technology. Specifically, he is tasked with alignment of the company's core competencies to the mission and vision of Countrywide, and was key to the post merger integration of KB Homes, CCM Futures, Treasury Bank, HomeBanc and others. Mr. Highfill looks at the use of technology in supporting sales, operations and brings his skills in strategy, finance, governance and operations to ClickN KIDS. Mr. Highfill holds both Bachelors of Science in Finance, Banking and Management and Masters of Business Administration degrees.

David Koenig, Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Koenig joins ClickN KIDS with over 22 years of technology and business expertise across a wide range of applications and disciplines. In addition to David's expert technology skills, the business acumen he brings to ClickN KIDS includes leading the company that deployed the first-of-its-kind IPTV solution to deliver custom content on demand to consumers and Founder, CEO and CTO of BrokersHelper.com a complete real estate marketing system that provides integrating web and the digital press to allow the agents to automate their entire marketing deployment with ease.

J. Ron Nelson, Ph.D., Author ClickN READ Phonics, ClickN SPELL and ClickN MATH

J. Ron Nelson, Ph.D., consulted with the company during the design and development of ClickN READ Phonics. 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).

Tim Sullivan, Vice President of Business Development

Tim Sullivan joins ClickN KIDS, Inc. with over 25 years of Sales Management experience in telecommunications, prepaid phone cards, dot.com funding, venture capital raises, Internet Marketing and business development consulting. Mr. Sullivan has managed direct sales, national sales and customer service groups in Virginia, Florida, New York and Texas before relocating to California. In Los Angeles Mr. Sullivan oversaw the development of VOIP Services, Content Delivery Networks, Entertainment Media Bulletin Boards, Internet Solutions and Lead Generation Systems. Tim Sullivan attended Virginia Tech and received a BS in Finance/Business Administration.

Mr. Sullivan is a highly accomplished and visionary executive with success at building and leading high-performance organizations. Experience with both start-up and growth organizations. Mr. Sullivan combines strategic and tactical financial expertise with strong qualifications in business development, sales, operations, and leadership. As a results-oriented and decisive leader with proven success in new market and product identification. With a proven track record of increasing sales, market share, and profitability, Mr. Sullivan has a tendency to thrive in dynamic and emerging markets such as ClickN KIDS product and distribution opportunity.

Frederick Arnold, Vice President of Business Development United Kingdom

Mr. Arnold brings a wealth of experience in sales management, team building and relationship building with companies such as, HP, AAA, CSAA, American National, and ABC Telecommunications.

Frederick has executed successful plans in several different areas of business. He has executed business and marketing plans for advertising agencies, internet advertising agencies, insurance companies, telecommunications and restaurants. His background is in sales, management, computer networking, team building as well as business expansion.

Frederick studied International Business at Boise State University, where he excelled as a member of the debate team, advancing to the finals in NCAA Lincoln/Douglas debates on 2 occasions.

He brings the knowledge of speaking several different languages with him. He speaks Spanish, Japanese, German, and English (Queen’s and American). He is currently gaining proficiency in Italian, French, and Mandarin. Mr. Arnold’s work ethic, entrepreneurial skills and creativity have allowed him to succeed in tapping new revenue and ancillary streams. His analytical skills and cultural anthropological knowledge have allowed him to gain success on an international level.

Donald Plehn Jr., Marketing Manager

Donald Plehn Jr's futuristic and conceptual thinking is followed by 10 years of national sales and marketing experience. Donald started his career with BMC management where he was awarded 5 consecutive years with the 5 STAR presidential award of excellence, his efforts resulted in more than 10 fortune 500 relationships such as IBM, Wal-Mart, Sears & Sprint.

Mr. Plehn Co-Founded Chapter Group, Inc. a nationwide online legal filing service. Donald's strategic sales & marketing efforts resulted in year over year growth of more than 1,000% and help Ed form more than 5,000 new business entities in the United States.

Donald has also held successful positions working with My Instant Guru, Inc. as the Managed Technology Marketing Director & the National Aeronautics and Space Administration where Donald managed & co-developed the Go-To Market strategy for NASA's Nsight international marketing program "Innovation".