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James Grau - President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Grau joins Cross Match with more than 30 years experience in sales and marketing, manufacturing and operational planning, including 13 years in a chief executive management capacity. Previously, Mr. Grau was Group President, Microwave Components and Subsystems for Smiths Group PLC, a leader in the practical application of advanced technologies for the threat and contraband detection, medical devices, energy and communications markets worldwide. While at Smiths, he established and managed the Microwave Components and Subsystems Group, consisting of four separate business operations, leading it to generate some of the highest net profit margins within Smiths. Mr. Grau also has served as CEO for LEA International, Veridien Corporation and Nationwide Industries. Prior to this, he held various management and sales and marketing positions in Kaepa, Inc., Marketing Corporate of America, Borden Company and the Drackett Company (a division of Bristol Myers). Mr. Grau earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.
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Denis Aull - Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Aull is responsible for Cross Match’s operations, including Product Development, Sales, Manufacturing, and Customer Support. He joined the Company in April 2007, and is a 25 year veteran of the high tech industry with extensive experience in marketing, research and development, and corporate management.
Previously, he was Vice President and General Manager of 3Com’s Convergence Business, Intel’s Network Building-Block Division and the Internet Communication Business Unit at Lucent Technologies. Mr. Aull was also Chief Technology Officer at Telebit Corporation, and spent his early career conducting research at Bell Laboratories.
He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) respectively.
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Marty Weinbaum - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Weinbaum joined Cross Match in 2006 as Vice President and Corporate Controller. In 2008, he assumed his current role of Chief Financial Officeroverseeing the company’s global finance organization.
Mr. Weinbaum has 25 years’ experience managing the global financial operations of organizations of all sizes, from small privately-held companies to large multi-million dollar public companies.
Previously, Mr. Weinbaum served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Ecometry Corporation, a publicly traded e-commerce software company. During his tenure, he was instrumental in leading a successful initial public offering and managing accounting, human resources, information technology, legal and purchasing functions.
Mr. Weinbaum also held various auditing, accounting, tax and financial reporting positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Aspen Marine Group and Stenton Leigh Capital Corporation.
A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Weinbaum graduated from Adelphi University in New York, with a BBA in Accounting.
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Uwe Richter - Managing Director, Cross Match Technologies GmbH
Mr. Richter was promoted to Managing Director of Cross Match Technologies GmbH in May 2008 from Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning. He joined Cross Match in August 2005 upon Cross Match’s acquisition of Smiths Heimann Biometrics, an acknowledged industry leader, where he was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. From December 2005 to February 2008, Mr. Richter served as Senior Vice President of Product Management.
Prior to Smiths Heimann, Mr. Richter held project and product management positions in predecessor companies. During his 20 years in biometrics, he has gained a wealth of experience in high-performance optics, high-resolution digital imaging, and applications in forensic-quality fingerprint and palm print acquisition for criminal and civil identification.
He was the project leader for the development of the first commercially available and fully certified worldwide palm print scanner, which was used by the National Police Agency of Japan for their nationwide livescan network. Mr. Richter also guided the definition, development and market introduction of the first fully certified 1000 ppi fingerprint and palm print scanner and the first super compact 500 ppi dual use ID-flats and ten-print scanner.
Mr. Richter is a member of TeleTrust e.V., a non-profit organization for the promotion of trustworthiness of information and communication technology in Germany, with a working group in the field of biometrics.
He graduated from the Technical University of Dresden in Germany with a degree in electrical engineering.
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Thomas Buss - Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
Mr. Buss leads Cross Match’s efforts to identify and capture new and emerging business opportunities.
He has extensive experience in technical management, manufacturing, field deployment, and customer service.
He joined Cross Match in September 2000, and directed all product development and product management operations, as well as factory and customer service activities. Previously, he worked at Motorola Inc. for 26 years in management positions for several business units, including Motorola’s first R&D operation in Singapore.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and his MBA from Nova University.
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Greg Cannon - Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Biometric Solutions and Standards
Greg Cannon has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Biometric Solutions and Standards since June 2006. He joined Cross Match in May 2001 as Director of Biometric Technology.
He is responsible for the company’s global technical direction, software architecture, continued innovative commitment to biometric solutions and standards, and leads the company’s interoperability efforts for biometrics, security, and privacy.
Mr. Cannon’s technical expertise includes electrical engineering, signal and image processing, pattern recognition, neural networks, biometrics, embedded computer architecture, software architecture, operating system design, virtual machines, communication systems, and security protocols and architectures.
Since December 2006, he has been chairman for U.S. biometric interchange format standards, directing government and commercial standards efforts in the ANSI-INCITS M1 standards body. Mr. Cannon has also been the liaison officer between the international standards organizations for biometrics (JTC1-SC37) and security (JTC1-SC27) since April 2005. During his career, Mr. Cannon has been instrumental in the product development and standardization of paging protocols, PCMCIA and Compact Flash cards, WAP Internet browsers, and Java (J2ME) application platforms for mobile platforms. He has over 40 patents and several papers to his credit.
Mr. Cannon is a graduate of the University of Texas, and earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering at Austin, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Arlington.
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Jack Carver - Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Instrument Development
Jack Carver has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Instrument Development since 2005. From 1998 to 2000, he was President of Cross Match.
Mr. Carver is responsible for identifying emerging technologies and overseeing technology development and engineering programs specifically focused on new instrument development.
His technical expertise spans the areas of electronics, optics, electro-optics, manufacturing and business management. He holds many patents in a wide variety of scientific areas including analytical chemistry, optics, electronics and mechanical engineering.
He has more than 50 years of experience in engineering and high-level management positions with advanced technology corporations such as Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, United Technologies and Jupiter Instrument Company, where he was President of this designer and manufacturer of laboratory analytical instruments and ophthalmic surgical instruments.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Miami, and has numerous engineering certifications.
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William Dumont - Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Mr. Dumont joined Cross Match in November, 2007 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Salesassuming global responsibility for an international team of sales professionals. He draws upon experience from leading technology companies to define and achieve the company’s sales objectives.
Most recently, Mr. Dumont was president of Chant, Inc., a communications consulting firm. Prior to that, he was the vice president of sales at mobile applications developer Orative, and also served as senior vice president of international sales and operations at Concerto Softwareleading an international organization with offices throughout EMEA, the Asia Pacific rim and Latin America.
Bringing more than three decades of sales and operations experience to Cross Match, Mr. Dumont also held a variety of leadership positions at major technology companies, including Octel Communications, VMX and AT&T. He led multi-million dollar sales organizations at Octel and VMX, which introduced early voicemail and messaging solutions to customers. While at AT&T, he held a variety of senior posts while establishing new sales distribution channels and a consumer sales organization for a first-generation online service called Videotex.
Mr. Dumont received Bachelor of Arts degrees in political science and history from Florida State University.
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Richard Iderosa - Senior Vice President, Global Operations
Mr. Iderosa is responsible for the worldwide development and manufacture of all Cross Match products. He joined Cross Match in February 2000, was named Director of Operations in 2004, and assumed his current position in 2006.
He possesses more than 25 years of experience in the field of optical instrument design and manufacture for commercial and space applications with companies such as EDO Barnes, Perkin Elmer Space Systems, and Lenzar Electro-Optics. Throughout his career he has been responsible for the management of development engineering, manufacturing, operations, and service functions.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of Glades Area Pantries (GAP), a non-profit organization providing food and counseling services to low income families in Western Palm Beach County.
Mr. Iderosa received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, magna cum laude with distinction, from the University of Connecticut.
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