Commercialization of technology arising from BBN technology is nothing new for Marie. Marie has successfully developed and deployed products based on BBN’s speech recognition and natural language technologies, with a focus on improving customer experience and reducing operating cost in the rapidly growing call center markets. Before moving into the commercial market, Marie managed more than 50 researchers in algorithm and system development of speech recognition, topic identification, telephone dialog systems, and information extraction from text. She has also been principal investigator of a number government sponsored speech and natural language projects. As a researcher, Marie worked on innovative approaches to language modeling for speech recognition and natural language processing. Marie received her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Massachusetts in 1990. Her thesis work was on text generation. She has been at EveryZing as Vice President of Speech since 2007.