Our Team
Kevin Gormley is our Co-Founder and CEO.
Kevin brings much experience developing, marketing and managing the sales of innovative K-12 programs to large and small school systems across the US.
For the last 10 years he has consulted with several innovative educational start-up companies helping to develop and bring to the marketplace cutting-edge programs.
Previously he was for 15 years a national science consultant, marketing manager and sales consultant for several major educational publishers including MacMillan and McGraw-Hill.
Kevin also taught for several years and then had his own business for 10 years designing and performing science magic shows for elementary school audiences. His interest in the performing arts, creativity, and the excitement that is generated when kids learn something new has lead to forming New Paradigm Education LLC to make the Reading Revolution method available to more teachers and students.
His guiding light has been to help create and bring to market programs that truly differentiate instruction and bring creativity into the classroom so fewer kids fall through the cracks.
Kevin is a graduate of: Marist College (BA, Biology); Yale Graduate Program, (Physical Anthropology) and SUNY (MA, Biology).
Paul Foldes, is our Co-Founder and COO.
Paul has 25+ years experience as a successful entrepreneur. He has catalyzed many mutually beneficial business relationships and transactions in the commercial and non-commercial sectors. Prior to entry in the private sector, he served as a Consumer Protection Attorney with the US Federal Trade Commission. Paul learned English in night school after emigrating to the US. He remains forever grateful for the numerous efforts of his public school teachers who helped him gain a first rate education.
Paul is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center (JD), New York University’s School of Engineering and Science (BE, EE), and Stuyvesant HS in New York City.
Marsha Weiner, Senior Consultant
Marsha brings over 20 years varied professional experience to New Paradigm Reading, including experience as a classroom teacher, creator and producer of award-winning educational products and media for children in grades K-12.
Marsha is a graduate of University of Maryland (BA), and New York University (MA).