Executives

Jeffrey Zimman
Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Zimman, our co-founder, President and CEO, leads our global team in the design, development, validation and distribution of computerized brain health programs. For the past two decades, Jeff Zimman has been involved with healthcare, information technology, and consumer products companies in implementing strategies leading to successful funding, high growth, and liquidity. Jeff Zimman is a former Venture Partner of VSP Capital, a former Managing Director of Lazard, where he founded and ran the investment bank's early stage advisory business, and a former partner of Cooley Godward, where he headed the corporate and securities practice in the law firm's San Francisco office. In addition to running these high-growth service businesses, Jeff Zimman has served on the boards of several start-up companies. Earlier in his career, Jeff Zimman was an award-winning newspaper reporter, covering business and technology. He earned his AB degree at Bowdoin College and his JD and MBA degrees at Stanford University.

Michael M. Merzenich, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Merzenich leads the company's scientific team. For more than three decades, Dr. Merzenich has been a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. He is the Francis A. Sooy Professor at the Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences at UCSF. Dr. Merzenich is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Ipsen Prize, Zülch Prize of the Max Planck Institute, Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award and Purkinje Medal. Dr. Merzenich has published more than 200 articles, including many in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Science and Nature. His work is also often covered in the popular press, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek. He has appeared on Sixty Minutes II, CBS Evening News and Good Morning America. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invented the cochlear implant, now distributed by market leader Advanced Bionics. In 1996, Dr. Merzenich was the founding CEO of Scientific Learning Corporation (Nasdaq: SCIL), which markets and distributes software that applies principles of brain plasticity to assist children with language learning and reading. He is an inventor on more than 50 patents. Dr. Merzenich earned his BS degree at the University of Portland and his PhD at Johns Hopkins. You can view Dr. Merzenich's blog here.

Mark Patton
Vice President, Sales
Mark Patton leads the sales team. Over the past 25 years Mark Patton has built worldwide sales organizations addressing the business and consumer markets, enterprise software, and channel partnerships. He joined Posit Science from SealedMedia where he was the VP of Marketing and Business Development. Prior to SealedMedia he was the CEO of Harmonic Communications. At NetObjects he served as the Senior VP of Worldwide Sales & Marketing, the EVP/GM for Products and Services, as well as COO where he was instrumental in helping NetObjects Fusion win over 75 industry awards. He was the VP/GM of worldwide sales and marketing at Kodak. Prior to that, he served as VP/GM of Logitech's American region. Mr. Patton began his career at Procter & Gamble then spent the following decade at Apple inc. where he had direct revenue responsibility in excess of $2 billion. He holds a BA in speech communication from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Eric Mann
Vice President, Marketing
Eric joined Posit Science with 20 years of experience in marketing, sales and business development in the software, Internet and high tech industries. Prior to joining Posit Science, Eric held senior marketing, business development and product positions at companies including: Netscape/AOL, Lotus Development Corporation Broadband Office, Talkway Communications and Pramati Technologies. He specializes in finding market opportunities through partnerships and by developing innovative marketing programs. Eric launched his career at Inc. Magazine where he was responsible for identifying new markets for technology programs. He has a BA in English from Brandeis University.

Henry Mahncke, PhD
Vice President, Research & Outcomes
Dr. Mahncke leads the Research & Outcomes team, designing scientific research and implementing outcomes trials to advance the company's product development. Dr. Mahncke did his graduate work and earned his doctorate in neuroscience in Dr. Merzenich's lab at UCSF. He then worked as an Engagement Manager for McKinsey & Company. While at McKinsey, Dr. Mahncke worked with leading global healthcare and consumer products companies in devising market strategies. Dr. Mahncke has also served in the consulate of the British government as a Science and Technology consultant. He holds a BA from Rice University and a PhD from UCSF.

Jon Zimman
Vice President, Business Affairs
Jon Zimman has over 25 years of experience in finance, operations and product management in the high-tech, publishing and communications industries. In recent years, Jon has been a consultant for a number of start-up and high-growth companies and served as the CFO (either full-time or on an interim basis) for several of them. Among these companies are: SiteRock, a managed-services provider which is now part of NaviSite; MandrakeSoft (now Mandriva), a leading Linux software developer based in France; Vivid Studios, a pioneering web architecture and design firm; and Total Entertainment Network (TEN), a game community site subsequently renamed Pogo and sold to Electronic Arts. Earlier in his career, Jon served in a variety of financial and product management positions with ABC, Warner Communications and Western Union. He earned his BA degree at the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA at Harvard University.

David Hoffman
Vice President, Product Development
David Hoffman has over 25 years of experience in creating and managing successful software businesses. Most recently, David served as VP Engineering of Pivia, a web acceleration company that was acquired by F5 Networks in 2005. David's significant entrepreneurial experience comes from building companies that were acquired by Fortune 500 companies such as Tektronix, Computer Associates and Cendent. Prior to focusing on start-ups, David held engineering and management positions at Disney and Hewlett-Packard. David holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Colorado.

Marsha Raulston
Vice President of People
Marsha Raulston heads up the People team at Posit Science, including Human Resources and Customer Delight. Ms. Raulston first came to Posit Science from Westgate Consulting, a full-service human resources and customer service consulting firm that she founded in 2000. Prior to that, Ms. Raulston served as Vice President of Human Resources and Customer Satisfaction at OneWorld Systems, worked as Vice President of Customer Service at Intuit, and spent over 20 years in customer service management and human resources at American Airlines and Citicorp. Ms. Raulston holds a BS in psychology from Stephen's College and a MA in sociology from the University of Nottingham, England.