Melissa Mabon

Melissa Mabon, President and CEO, is the founder of Expedience Software. Trained as a philosopher, Ms. Mabon has been a highly successful entrepreneur and expert-systems designer.

In 1994 Melissa Mabon co-founded Pragmatech Software Inc. From 1994 through the end of 2003, Ms. Mabon served as CTO and principal designer of software and services for the company’s core expert systems technology. Pragmatech’s solutions automated the process of creating customer-facing selling materials, such as proposals, presentations, and RFP responses. The company delivered solutions to field sales, marketing, proposal, and bid teams in Fortune 1000 companies, including those in technology, telecommunications, healthcare, financial services/insurance, distribution, and manufacturing.

As CTO Ms. Mabon worked with early adopters and client advisors from firms such as, Fidelity Investments, CIGNA, Credit Suisse, Mass Mutual, and State Street.

By the end of Ms. Mabon’s tenure in 2003, Pragmatech Software had grown from a self-funded, bootstrap company to a $12 million business. Among other awards, the company received the Inc 500 award in 2001, when it ranked as the 14th fastest-growing software company; and as #112 fastest-growing company overall. Other notable awards include the New Hampshire Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 and New Hampshire Remarkable Woman in 2003.

Melissa Mabon graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, from The Ohio State University in 1979 and holds two masters’ degrees from Columbia University (MA, M. Philosophy). While at Columbia, Ms. Mabon taught philosophy classes and a section of Columbia’s acclaimed Humanities Core Curriculum. She has done extensive research and development in logic, epistemology, and expert systems.