Katia Shabanova is director of public relations at Paragon Software Group. Ms. Shabanova studied linguistics at Moscow State Linguistic University and University of Texas at Austin; English and German philology at Santa Clara University, California; and earned Master of Arts degrees in English and German Philology at Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany. Prior to joining Paragon Software Group in 2007, she worked for three high-tech public relations agencies in Silicon Valley, California.