Management Team

Management Team. Leadership in Action.

Mark Atkinson, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Atkinson is the CEO of Teachscape.  Prior to founding Teachscape in 2000, Mr. Atkinson was a network news producer with extensive experience in reporting, producing, and directing network news documentaries. He was Senior Producer and Manager of New Markets for CBS News Productions, where he developed new business opportunities, focusing on multimedia production and the education market.  He has directed and produced works with broadcast luminaries such as Mike Wallace and Peter Jennings, and has received many awards, including the Gold Baton, the highest honor of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, for work associated with reporting the war in Bosnia, the Overseas Press Club Award, and an Emmy Award for reporting on the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.  Mark is a graduate of Yale University, and he presently serves as a trustee of the Oracle Education Foundation.

Linda Bellamy, Regional Vice President of Sales, Eastern US
Linda Bellamy joined Teachscape as Associate Vice President of Sales in December 2006. Linda brings to Teachscape more than 20 years of experience in educational sales. Prior to joining Teachscape, she served as Associate Vice President for national sales at The Princeton Review, a leading test preparation, intervention, and assessment company. Linda was also Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic at Compass Learning, Inc., an instructional software company, where she was consistently honored as a top revenue producer. Linda began her career in the education industry as a middle school language arts teacher and then moved into sales of educational products for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and for Computer Curriculum Corporation. Linda is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

Rem Fairlamb, Vice President, Sales
Rem Fairlamb joined Teachscape as Vice President, Sales in March 2009. In this role he leads Teachscape™'s Account Executive team building partnerships with state educators, school districts and forecasting/achieving Teachscape™'s top-line growth objectives for the K12 division. Rem has 20+ years of sales leadership and GM experience. Prior to Teachscape, Rem served as Vice President, Sales for Kaplan K12 Learning Services, where he built a sales organization that grew from $8M in 2002 sales to $56M in 2007 sales. Prior to Kaplan, Rem served as Western Region Sales Vice President for Waste Management. He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and his BA from DePauw University.

Melissa Jaivin, Vice President, Higher Education
Melissa Jaivin is responsible for developing a new area of business at Teachscape: graduate courses and master's degrees, offered in partnership with accredited universities nationwide. These offerings enable districts to create customized programs of study linking district goals to teachers' professional development. Formerly, Ms. Jaivin worked for Online Higher Education, one of the fastest-growing divisions of Laureate Education, Inc. (formerly Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc.), which consists of Canter & Associates, OnlineLearning.net, WebEd, and Walden University. During her 13-year tenure at Laureate, Ms. Jaivin was responsible for marketing, recruitment, and operations of the Graduate Programs Division, which included seven master's degrees offered via distance learning (online and face-to-face models), and enrollments of more than 20,000 K–12 educators. Earlier in her career, she was an executive at Bank of Boston (Society for Savings), Pacific Southwest Savings Bank, and Prentice-Hall Publishers. Ms. Jaivin is a graduate of Brown University.

Maryann Marrapodi, Chief Learning Officer
Maryann Marrapodi is responsible for ensuring the development and alignment of Teachscape's strategic initiatives. Most recently, Ms. Marrapodi was a senior partner in Collaborative Ventures, where she worked with government organizations to develop and evaluate human services policies and programs. Prior to that, she served as Director of the New York Mayor's Office of Early Childhood Services, where she was responsible for coordinating the efforts of all city agencies providing education and comprehensive services to preschool children and their families. As part of her work in education, Ms. Marrapodi developed programs and policies to promote teaching and learning of mathematics, science, and technology for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering and for the New York City Department of Education, where she served as a teacher, director of a magnet junior high school, Director of Curriculum, and Special Assistant to the Schools Chancellor. She holds master's degrees from the City College of New York, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Scott Noon, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development
Scott Noon provides leadership to our strategic accounts program, business partnerships, and the marketing efforts here at Teachscape. Having helped build Classroom Connect, Scott has developed a variety of professional development initiatives including online training portals and courseware, professional conferences, and on-site inservice programs. Just prior to coming to Teachscape, Scott spent three years as an assessment specialist and regional sales manager for Riverside Publishing Company. Enabling teachers and districts to use student performance data to accelerate student achievement is a key interest of Scott's as he seeks to help large districts to implement systemic professional development solutions. Holding a Master of Divinity degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Scott has also done doctoral studies in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in instructional technology and is the author of four books.

Mary Ramsden, Vice President, Human Resources & Administration
Mary Ramsden joined Teachscape in November 2005, bringing more than 14 years' experience in the Human Resources and Administration fields. Most recently, Ms. Ramsden was Director, Human Resources & Administration, at Vialta, Inc., an international consumer electronics company. Prior to Vialta, she was Senior Manager of Human Resources, Administration, and Facilities at iLux Corporation, producers of work flow software applications. Prior to relocating to the United States from England, she accumulated more than 10 years' experience in personnel and administrative roles at various organizations, including Lloyds Bank in Cambridge. Ms. Ramsden attended secretarial college at Cambridge College of Arts & Technology.