Board of Directors

John M. Barrie, PhD

Co-Founder

Dr. John Barrie is co-founder of iParadigms. In 1996 iParadigms set out to create a new model for ascertaining the originality of written work. Dr. Barrie is the original architect of the technology behind Turnitin, the leading plagiarism prevention service used by millions of students and faculty in more than 100 countries (including every university in the U.K.), and iThenticate — a commercial version of Turnitin designed for publishers and in-use at all of the major scholarly publishers in the English-speaking world.

Dr. Barrie's vision is to use technology to drive the production of original work such that other, efficiency-creating technologies can then be employed in the modern classroom to increase feedback to students. Dr. Barrie's ultimate goal is to exponentially increase classroom feedback to students (regarding their course work) in order to create engagement between the students and their peers, their instructors, and the core course material that they are in school to learn — to use technology to reform education and significantly increase learning. To that end, Dr. Barrie and his colleagues have made Turnitin into the most highly used teaching technology in the world.

As a leading expert in his field, Dr. Barrie has been featured on CNN, ABC (Good Morning America and World News Tonight), CBS (48 Hours with Dan Rather/60 Minutes with Morley Safer), BBC, the New York Times and USA Today.

Dr. Barrie completed his undergraduate studies in Rhetoric and Neurobiology and his PhD in Biophysics/Neurobiology — both at the University of California, Berkeley.

Chris Caren

Chairman & CEO

Chris Caren joined iParadigms in 2009 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. His career has focused on software businesses and he comes from a family of scientists and educators — a background which helped draw him to iParadigms. Chris previously worked for Microsoft Corporation as General Manager of Microsoft Business Solutions and Office Business Applications. His previous experience includes vice president of products and marketing at Business Objects (now part of SAP), product marketing at Manugistics Group Inc., head of sales and marketing at an Oracle financial applications company, and a leadership position at Accenture. He holds an MBA with distinction from Kellogg Business School and a bachelor of science in engineering from Stanford University.

Mark Colodny

Managing Director, Warburg Pincus

Mark Colodny joined Warburg Pincus in 2001. He is head of the West Coast office and focuses on media, Internet and information investments. Previously, he worked as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Primedia, where he led the mergers and acquisition group. Before joining Primedia, he was a writer at Fortune magazine. Mr. Colodny received an AB from Harvard University, an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Harvard Law School. In addition to iParadigms, he serves as a director at GlobalSpec, CAMP Systems International, MLM Information Services, MultiView and OnTargetJobs.

Mason Slaine

Chairman & CEO, Interactive Data Corporation

Mason Slaine is currently Chairman and CEO of Interactive Data Corporation. Headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, Interactive Data Corporation delivers financial market data, analytics and additional related services. Mr. Slaine has successfully grown several businesses into market leaders, including Thomson Financial and most recently Information Holdings, Inc. (a former Warburg Pincus portfolio company), which was sold to the Thomson Corporation in 2004.

Patrick Severson

Managing Director, Warburg Pincus

Patrick Severson joined Warburg Pincus in 2001 and focuses on the firm's investments in software and software enabled businesses. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Severson was a consultant with Booz-Allen & Hamilton and Price Waterhouse, focused on media and technology industries. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Mr. Severson's current portfolio includes iParadigms, Nuance, Spigit and Telcordia. He has been a director or involved with the firm's investments in Secure Computing (acquired by McAfee), LSSi (acquired by Volt), Systinet (acquired by Mercury/HP), Pi (acquired by EMC) and Tradecard. Mr. Severson serves as an advisor to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Vishnu Menon

Managing Director, Warburg Pincus

Vishnu Menon joined Warburg Pincus in 2005 and has been a media and technology investor since 1999. Mr. Menon is based in San Francisco and focuses on investments in the media, data/information, and software sectors. Previously, Mr. Menon worked as a business services and technology investor at New York-based hedge fund Perry Capital and Texas Pacific Group in San Francisco. Prior to that, he was with Symphony Technology Group and JP Morgan Capital. Mr. Menon holds a BA in international relations from Stanford University and has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the boards of iParadigms and Spigit, and works closely with Yodlee and Workscape.