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Gerrard Schmid currently serves as president and chief executive officer. In this role, he is responsible for driving the organization's global strategies and performance to enable secure, software-defined connected commerce and related services across the financial and retail industries. Schmid has more than 20 years of leadership experience in banking, payments, and financial technology. Most recently, he was a senior advisor with The Boston Consulting Group. From 2012 to 2017 he served as chief executive officer of D+H Corporation, a $1.7 billion global fintech company that was publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:DH) prior to being merged with Misys. Under his leadership, the company evolved from a Canadian leader in payments to a global leader in real-time payments and lending software. He joined D+H in 2007 as president and CEO of the company’s Filogix business unit. Prior to D+H, he managed a $3 billion retail banking business at Lloyds TSB in the United Kingdom. From 2001 to 2005, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer for retail banking at CIBC, one of the “Big Five” Canadian banks. In 1997 he joined McKinsey and Company, Inc., where he advanced through positions of increasing responsibility, working across financial services, e-commerce and technology before joining CIBC. He began his career in finance at Citibank in 1995 as a developer in derivatives supporting trade reconciliations. Originally from South Africa, Schmid earned a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and started his career as an aerospace engineer. He also holds a Master of Applied Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Alex Bouzari brings more than twenty years of experience in the storage industry and a wealth of knowledge in running profitable, fast growth technology companies. Prior to co-founding DataDirect Networks, Mr. Bouzari served as CEO of Personal Writer, Inc., and co-founder of MegaDrive Systems, Inc. Mr. Bouzari holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Engineering and Economics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), with graduate studies in Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University.

Timothy Dreisbach has been with the company since May 1998. Prior to joining Metricom, Dreisbach served as president and CEO of Premenos Technology Corp., a supplier of software and services for business-to-business electronic commerce. There he successfully returned Premenos to profitability, and assisted in the company's recent merger with Harbinger Corp., one of the nation's leading providers of single source electronic commerce and EDI solutions. He previously served five years as senior vice president for North American Sales and Service at Boole & Babbage, a provider of enterprise systems management software, and was a founding officer of Legent Corporation. Dreisbach has over 25 years of management and high-tech experience, an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, and a graduate degree from UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Tiana Glinton works at SILICON GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CORP and a CEO at SILICON GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CORP and is based in Pompano Beach, Florida.