Steve Shepard, CEO and the developer of Storyist, is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 20 years of experience in media technologies. A night and weekend writer for many years, he took a year off in 2002 to finish a novel. Not finding the writing tools he wanted, he decided to create them. And so Storyist Software was born.

Before founding the company, he served as Vice President of Applications Infrastructure at Liberate Technologies, where he managed the development and deployment of set-top box middleware and applications.

Before Liberate, Steve held various technical positions at Silicon Graphics and Apple Computer. He started his career as an engineer at New England Digital, a maker of high-end recording studio equipment.

Steve received a B.S. in Engineering and Music from the University of Hartford and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University. He holds two United States patents.

Christina Cary, Managing Editor, has over 20 years of experience as an editor, writer, and English teacher. She received her B.A. in English from Oberlin College and an M.A in Writing from Carnegie Mellon University.