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Melissa Lipscomb, CFO & EVP, Business Affairs. Melissa Lipscomb is a founder of the Company and was its Chief Operating Officer from 2005 to 2007. Ms. Lipscomb also managed the Company’s UK operations from 2002 to 2004. Ms. Lipscomb has dual degrees in English and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to collaborating on the foundation of iParadigms in 1994, Ms. Lipscomb worked in the nonprofit and not-for-profit sectors, most notably as the sole operations and finance staff member for the current Attorney General (and former Mayor of Oakland and 2-time Governor of CA), Jerry Brown, then, the head of an Oakland-based non-profit organization, We The People, and was responsible for organizational development, large-scale volunteer coordination and supervision, and fund contribution management. Ms. Lipscomb moved to France for a year and returned to begin work with iParadigms’ founding team, concurrently working in UC Berkeley’s Finance administration until 2000. Ms. Lipscomb was responsible for the initial research leading to the inception of iParadigms, Inc., as a formal entity.Ms. Lipscomb manages the Company’s Accounting, Administration, Human Resources and Business Affairs units. She is also the Company’s LLC Secretary, responsible for corporate affairs and investor relations. | 