Management Team

Brian Taylor - President/Chief Executive Officer
Brian honed his leadership skills over 15 years with Thomson Learning, one of the nation's largest publishers, where he held a number of executive and general management positions. His successes at Thomson Learning include the launch of one of the nation's first digital courses - ComputerVisions for junior high computer literacy, which captured a 60% market share. Another product, PAWS in Typing Town, which garnered numerous awards from national publications, is still a standard for elementary keyboarding. More recently, COO at Thinkronize, Brian led the sales, marketing, and business development efforts netting several six-figure multi-year revenue deals. Over the years, he's formed revenue-generating strategic partners with industry giants such as McGraw-Hill, Apple, Pioneer, the Follett Corporation, and Houghton Mifflin.

Experience: COO, Thinkronize; VP, New Media; VP of Marketing, South-Western/Thomson Learning (acquired by Tribune Education); General Manager, Thomson Learning TOOLS (acquired by McGraw-Hill).

Education: MBA, Xavier University; BA, Judson College; Additional Studies through Executive Ed., Columbia University, and Thomson Leadership Development Institute.

John Laws - Chief Development Officer
John is renowned for the development of pioneering education applications. His products have garnered awards and recognition from a long list of publications including USA Today, WSJ, Christian Science Monitor, and Media & Methods. His product applications have spanned curriculum, instruction, guidance, research, and administration. His most recent products at Thinkronize have garnered millions in revenues and awards from Media & Methods and Curriculum Administrator magazines.

Experience: CTO, Thinkronize; Global VP of Technology, Hobson's (acquired by Daily Mail & General Trust of London); VP Product Manager, CARS Information Systems (acquired by Jenzabar); National Account Manager, Unisys Education Solution Center.

Education: M. Ed., Ohio University; BS, Ohio University; Executive Education at Valparaiso University and Unisys Education Center.

Greg Estep - Vice President - Technology
Greg is the architect and engineer that masterminds the deployment of Scenario Learning training modules across a variety of media environments. His broad IT skills range from database architecture to programming to internetworking. Greg has successfully led the IT development efforts for a number of education-oriented business including Thinkronize, CollegeView, and CARS Information Systems.

Experience: Director of Technology, Thinkronize; Director of Engineering, Hobson's (Daily Mail and General Trust); System's Engineer, Campus Administrative Resource Systems (acquired by Jenzabar).

Education: BS, Information Systems, University of Kentucky.

Greg Witmer - Vice President - Sales and Marketing
Greg joins Scenario Learning from McGraw-Hill School Publishing, with a background that began in 1980 as a sales representative for Macmillan publishing. He has acquired experience in selling in a variety of markets including basal text, supplemental publishing, Catholic publications and technology curriculum sales. He also held marketing managerial positions focusing on the marketing of full curriculum technology programs that were pioneers in the publishing arena, as well as managing market research for Glencoe Publishing. Most recently he was V.P. and Director of New Media for McGraw-Hill School Education where he innovated new approaches for marketing technology programs that accompany the print programs for all of McGraw-Hill divisions including Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, SRA/McGraw-Hill, McGraw-Hill Childrens Publishing, Wright Group/McGraw-Hill and Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. For the past eight years he has managed a staff of 200+ employees focusing on innovation in technology. Greg has been responsible for the creation and development of several important projects including The McGraw-Hill Learning Network, an award winning e-learning environment that garnered two Codie awards from the SIIA in 2002.