People
Much of Lexia's work is done by volunteers from the community such its founders John Anton, Jerome Elkind, and Carol Murray and more recently Will McKinney and Nick Anton.
John Anton, Ph.D., President 
Dr. Anton received his B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame, a Fulbright Fellowship to Karlsruhe Universität, and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. He has held technical and executive positions at several high technology companies from 1970 until his retirement in 2013. In 1988, he co-founded the Lexia Institute with Dr. Elkind and has served since as its president while also leading the development of Lexia's LessonPlanner and WordSpring software products designed for literacy teachers.
Jerome Elkind, Sc.D., Chairman
Jerome Elkind is chairman
of The Lexia Institute. He received his S.B. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from MIT. He has done research on and development of interactive
computer systems and has held management positions at several companies
in the computer industry.
In 1988 he co-founded The Lexia Institute where he has worked on computer
reader and speech recognition technology for people with learning disabilities
and on Lexia's WordSpring software for teachers.
William McKinney, B.S., Director
Will McKinney received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. Will brings to Lexia over 30 years of leadership and of marketing and technology management experience in organizations spanning early stage start-ups to large enterprises. His experience includes the definition and delivery of multiple successful software products within a variety of markets, including health/wellness, cost accounting, internet tools, and chip design/validation. A goal throughout his career has been to deliver easy to understand solutions using technology to help better the lives of individuals.
Nicholas Anton, M.Ed., Director
Nick Anton received his B.A. degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a concentration in cello performance. He received his M.A. in Special Education from New York University. Nick has twenty years of experience supporting students with learning disabilities in classrooms and one-to-one settings, and over ten years in leadership roles for LD program design, implementation and maintenance. Nick joined the Lexia Institute in 2023 to help support the Institute's continuing efforts in outreach and instructional impact.
Carol Murray, M.Ed., Curriculum Advisor 1990-2010
Carol Murray, M.Ed., devoted 35 years to the education of children, adolescents, and adults with specific language disabilities as a classroom teacher, a school administrator, and instructor of teacher education courses. She wrote numerous educational materials including diagnostic tests for older students and Scope & Sequence for Literacy Instruction. At Lexia, she worked on the development of LessonPlanner and WordSpring, computer software tools to aid teachers plan phonics-based literacy lessons, and on computer readers to accommodate and improve the skills of poor readers. Carol passed away in August 2010. Her last contribution to Lexia was to specify the content of WordSpring 3.0, the new version of Lexia's word list software.