The Docufide Management Team:
Accomplishment and Experience

John Reese
CEO and Chairman of the Board

John Reese has an extensive background as an entrepreneur, CEO and corporate executive. Harnessing his visionary ability to identify and develop new business services he created pioneering firms in two industries; Internet-based outsourced recruiting services and personal financial management software/home banking. Most recently, Mr. Reese was CEO of iSearch, which he started in 1994. It was the first firm to make private resume databases and recruiting tools available on the Internet to authorized corporate employees. Under his leadership, iSearch secured the funds required for its rapid growth – named in 2000 by Deloitte & Touche as 3rd fastest growing firm in Los Angeles five-county area. iSearch provided recruiting systems for over 170 corporate clients and 20 public “Internet job sites”. Its databases contained over 4 million resumes. Clients included BellSouth, eBay, Honeywell, Merck, Nordstrom, Sears, Siemens, Target, and United Airlines and most major U.S. newspaper Publishers, via CareerPath.com.

Prior to this, Mr. Reese was President of TRW Financial Systems, Inc. This commercial system integration subsidiary provided the back offices of paper-intensive firms like American Express, Citibank, Pacific Bell, and the U.S. Postal Service with customized high-speed image processing solutions. In 1982, Mr. Reese launched Monogram, developer of “Dollars & Sense”, the nation’s best selling home and small business financial software. It also provided the first software allowing Bank of America and Citibank customers to pay bills from, and download statements to, their personal computer.

Earlier at Citicorp, he conceived, designed, and developed their ground-breaking ATMs. His responsibilities grew to include the development of numerous self-service banking capabilities including at-the-pump payment systems for self-service gasoline stations and early homebanking services. Mr. Reese has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from City College of New York and an MBA from California State University at Long Beach.

Mark N. Cohen
Vice President, Product Development

As Vice President of Docufide, Mark N. Cohen oversees the strategic direction of the company with a specific focus in product development. Prior to co-founding Docufide, Mr. Cohen was Senior Director of Consumer Products at Homestore.com, where his responsibilities included the areas of product development, product design, production and the implementation of strategic relationships. Mark helped lead the team that built the Homestore.com web site to its position as the number one home and real estate destination on the Internet and among the top 25 most visited web sites.

Before joining Homestore, Mr. Cohen spent ten years in the entertainment industry where he founded and ran a nationally distributed record company, produced seven films (and several award winning short films), developed numerous television and film properties and consulted to film studios and production companies. Mr. Cohen attended Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts and holds a Bachelors degree in business administration from Charter Oak State College.

Jeff Harris
Vice President, Secure Transcript Services

Mr. Harris oversees the building of relationships within Secondary and Postsecondary education at Docufide. Prior to Docufide, he was responsible for managing a team of more than 400 individual recruiters across the country while at VROOM, Inc. a technology staffing company which he co-founded. There, Mr. Harris drove an extensive recruiting, retention and cultivation effort while taking a critical role in the cultural and professional growth by spearheading innovative programs including AXCESS, the first international recruitment network. His ability to source and build strong relationships with strategic partners helped to guide VROOM to profitability by its fifth month of operation.

In January 2001, Mr. Harris was elected as a Chairman of the Southern California Software Council, a position he holds today. He is also currently serving a 4 year term on the Pepperdine University Alumni Board.

John O’Connell
Senior Vice President, Business Development

Mr. O’Connell leads Docufide’s business development and state initiative projects. He joined Docufide in 2004 with a successful twelve year track record in launching pioneering technology and services companies in the private and educational industry sectors. In that time, Mr. O’Connell co-founded, grew and sold a K-12 student information system sales and support company (now part of Infinite Campus), completed the turnaround of a K-12 web portal service provider, and created and sold a company providing online recruiting software to media companies nation-wide. His areas of practical expertise include business development, corporate partnering, and state government relations. Mr. O’Connell attended University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and holds a Bachelor Degree in Management Studies from Excelsior College.

Scott Hillman
Vice President, Operations and Customer Service

As Vice President of Operations, Scott Hillman is responsible for managing the deployment and ongoing customer service and technical support of Secure Transcript in secondary school districts nationwide. Prior to joining Docufide, Hillman served as a senior management consultant with Andersen, where he acted as a trusted ebusiness strategy advisor to Fortune 500 companies. He joined Andersen after founding and managing Interactive Marketing Technologies, a successful Silicon Valley ecommerce company. IMT was an early pioneer in the development of both CD and Internet based electronic catalogs and related intellectual property security technologies. Hillman's earlier experience includes senior operating management roles with Softbank, Strategic Mapping, Ingram, and Merisel. Hillman holds a BA in mathematics and computer science and an MBA in finance and operations research from UCLA.

Rachel Stamm
Vice President, Programs

Rachel Stamm has been with Docufide since 2008 and as Vice President of Programs, she is responsible for the successful deployment of services across state initiatives, strategic partnerships and direct sales.

Rachel has spent her career in the K-20 education space and has experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Rachel was charged with merging the distance learning and classroom-based divisions of a Bay Area Technical College to create unified student experience independent of the learning modality. Her group streamlined the communication workflow between admissions, financial aid, student support and instruction to simplify the student experience which directly resulted in a retention rate increase of 10%. In the non-profit sector, her curriculum design in adult and family literacy has garnered national recognition and as one of the first management team members of a California-based Supplemental Education Services provider she toggled both direct program support and increasing organizational capacity to manage the period of explosive growth. By 2008 her cross-functional teams expanded the service territory into Southern California and launched hundreds of programs providing services to well over 10,000 K-12 students and the annual revenue had increased tenfold. Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts in African American Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Lee Purvis
Acting Vice President Engineering/CTO

As acting Chief Technical Officer, Lee oversees the technical direction and development of the Docufide technology. Lee has over twenty years experience in high-tech companies with a special emphasis on the education and K-12 markets. Lee has significant achievements in all areas of company operations including executive management, information and system architecture, project management, process improvement, quality systems, IT infrastructure, and software development.

Prior to joining Docufide, Lee acted as an independent consultant on projects for companies such as eduVoice, BC Hydro, Chancery Software, Microsoft and others. Before this stint as a consultant, Lee spent two years as CEO of Discovery Software - a software outsourcing and consulting firm focused on the K-12 market. At Discovery, Lee doubled revenue during his tenure as CEO and grew consulting staff from 19 to over 80. Lee oversaw the company's successful delivery of multiple concurrent and complex software projects for many customers. In 2000/2001 Discovery received recognition as the 76th largest high tech company and 12th fastest growing company in B.C. In addition, Lee was recognized for outstanding achievement as one of Vancouver's "top 40 under 40".

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