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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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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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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. In February 2009, Mr. Richter took over the responsibility of leading Cross Match's Product Management activities worldwide. 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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Henry Steger - Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations
Mr. Steger joined Cross Match in 2005 as Senior Vice President of International Sales and Marketing. He assumed staff responsibility for international marketing activities, sales channels and order processing. During his tenure, he expanded the EMEA and Asia Pacific sales teams, and managed key accounts for AFIS customers and their global subsidiaries.
In his current role, Mr. Steger manages the worldwide activities of the supply chain organizations at Cross Match's Jena, Palm Beach Gardens and Quebec City offices. These teams manage inventory levels, vendor quality and pricing, making them essential to Cross Match's ability to continue to lead in the global marketplace. With Mr. Steger's guidance, the organizations design, plan and monitor supply chain operations. In addition, the teams synchronize supply chains with customer demand, and oversee global product forecasts and supply management processes.
Bringing more than ten years of biometrics marketing and sales experience to Cross Match, Mr. Steger previously served as director of marketing at Smiths Heimann Biometrics GmbH (SHB). During this time, Mr. Steger defined pricing strategy, implemented strategic marketing and sales initiatives, and established a U.S. subsidiary for SHB.
Mr. Steger graduated from the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany, with an engineering degree in Information Technology.
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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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