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Syed B. Ali is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors since the inception of the company in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communication chip company of which he was a founding management team member. Malleable Technologies was acquired by PMC Sierra, a communication IC company in 2000. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the Flash memory and CPU businesses and put together the business plans that drove sales in each line to over a $100M in less than two years. Prior to that, he had various positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computer, and American Microsystems. He received a BSEE from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and an M.S.E from the University of Michigan.

Subodh Kulkarni, has been a director of CyberOptics since 2009. Subodh Kulkarni has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2014, was our Executive Chairman from September 2013 to February 2014 and was lead director from December 2012 until his election as Executive Chairman. Subodh Kulkarni was Chief Executive Officer from January 2013 to February 2014 of Prism Computational Sciences, a developer of software tools for scientific and commercial applications in simulation of hot gases and plasma used in many applications, including the semiconductor industry. Subodh Kulkarni was Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, OEM/Emerging Business, of Imation Corp from 2009 until 2012; Vice President, Global Commercial Business, R&D and Manufacturing of Imation from 2007 through 2009; Vice President, R&D and Manufacturing of Imation from 2006 through 2007; Vice President of R&D of Imation from March 2006 until October 2006; and Executive Director of R&D of Imation from 2004 until March 2006. Prior to 2004, Subodh Kulkarni held various research management positions with 3M Corporation, and prior to that, with IBM. Subodh Kulkarni received his B.S. in chemical engineering (first in his class) from IIT—Bombay, India, and went on to obtain a master’s degree and a PhD in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with thesis work on disilane surface decomposition—used in the manufacture of semiconductors. Subodh Kulkarni has won a number of awards for commercializing technologies he and others have developed in the electronics industry.

James Park (born 1976/1977) is an American technology entrepreneur. He co-founded Fitbit and has been its CEO and president since September 2007. He was named in 2015 among Fortune magazine's 40 Under 40, an annual ranking of the most influential young people in business. With a net worth of $660 million estimated by Forbes, he was ranked #29 in the magazine's America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 in 2015. James Park announced that Fitbit became part of Google on January 14, 2021.

Frank Hallowell is a Chief Financial Officer at IMAGE SENSING SYSTEMS INC and is based in Minnesota. He has experience at Harland Clarke and KPMG and has worked as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary, Office of the President, Controller at Expresspoint Technology Services; Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Legal Research Center Inc; and Regional Director of Finance - CellularOne at BELLSOUTH CORP. Frank studied at Carlson School of Management between 2004 and 2004 and University of North Dakota between 1975 and 1979.

Jorge Mascena is a President/CEO at Modular Mining Systems and Software Engineering Supervisor at Modular Mining Systems. He studied at UFPR.

Ethan Escowitz is a CEO at Arris Composites and is based in Berkeley, California. He has worked as Additive Manufacturing & R&D Services at FATHOM, Industrial & Manufacturing Digital Marketing Specialist at Thomas Publishing, and Industrial & Manufacturing SAAS Specialist at Thomas. Ethan attended University of Vermont between 1993 and 1997.