Francois-Paul Briand is a cofounder and president of Briand and Wirsching, Inc., which develops commercial software products for the training and biometrics security markets. Among the company's clients are Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Press, Simon & Shuster (Prentice-Hall), Socha Computing Inc., Sagem & Sagem-Morpho, John Wiley and Sons, and AT&T Wireless.