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Arjan, co-founder and former CEO of IntelliTools, has long been active in instructional and assistive technology and a reliable voice for the field through national trade associations and in legislative efforts on Capitol Hill. His background is in education, spanning work as an elementary teacher to training teachers at San Francisco State University in a course called "Computers Without Fear." He served on faculty at U.C. Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science as a technology specialist and author of FOSS, the Full Option Science System. At IntelliTools, he was the lead inventor of IntelliKeys and a principle investigator on federal grants through the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Arjan helped found the Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) and he is a co-founder and past president of the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA). He is a board member of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and contributor to the CoSN Accessible Technologies for All Students Initiative. | 