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GINO M. PEREIRA, FCCA - Chief Executive Officer

Over 25 years of executive operational and financial experience with technology companies in the United States, Europe and the Far East. He has also helped to develop several technology start-ups as well as served in an executive capacity in a large multinational public company. Chief Financial Officer of Technest since February 14, 2005. In November 2001, Mr. Pereira became a founder and principal at Interim Management Solutions in Oxford, Connecticut. During his tenure at Interim Management Solutions, Mr. Pereira has acted as an interim or part-time Chief Financial Officer or Chief Operations Officer for numerous small and emerging companies. In January 2003, Mr. Pereira also became a Managing Director of Kiwi Securities, Inc., an independently owned investment banking firm, a post he held until December 7, 2004. Prior to November 2001 Mr. Pereira was Chief Operating Officer for CDC Technologies, a medical device company, Divisional Vice President of Finance for Williams Holdings, a multinational public company and Chief Accounting Officer of Norgine Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Pereira is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (UK).

NITIN KOTAK, FCA - Chief Financial Officer
More than 25 years of experience in managing finance, accounting, reporting, investor relations, taxation and information technology functions in various industries and countries. Since November 2005, Mr. Kotak served as the Vice President, Finance & Operations for Technest. Prior to joining Technest, Mr. Kotak was the Vice President of Finance & Accounting for Able Laboratories, Inc., New Jersey, a publicly traded company with a market capitalization of about $ 500 million from October 2003. Prior to joining Able, from December 1999 to September 2003, Mr. Kotak was the Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary and the Finance Member of the Board of Directors of Mattel Toys (India), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel Inc. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Accountants (India) and holds a B.Comm. in Accounting from the University of Calcutta

STEVEN YI, PhD- Vice President R & D
Responsible for directing research and development efforts and transferring technologies into commercial products. He has over 15 years’ experience in image processing, computer vision, and optics. He has been a primary investigator for many DoD programs Prior to joining Genex, he was a program manager for Athena Technologies, Inc. and ENSCO, Inc., where he worked on vision augmented UAV navigation, collision avoidance, IR sensing, and landing systems. He also managed numerous machine vision-related system designs. Dr. Yi holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He received his Masters degrees in both Physics (Temple University) and Electrical Engineering (Tsinghua University, a.k.a. Chinese MIT) with honors and has a BSc from Peking University..

DAVID TUNNELL- Vice-President, Director 3D-ID
Over 17 years of experience in developing high-technology solutions for the US Government. 13 years were at the National Security Agency (NSA) serving in operations, support, and development. Formerly at L3 Communications where he served as Director of Engineering, overseeing the development of SIGINT solutions. and served as the primary interface with customers, bridging the gap between customer requirements and system design and engineering. He also managed technical personnel, budgets, schedules, and technical direction. Mr. Tunnell earned a Masters in Technical Management (MSTM) from Johns Hopkins University and a BSEE from the University of Tennessee .

MICHAEL LANCIA-Vice President, Director EARCAM
An experienced entrepreneurial audiologist who owns and operates Ocean State Hearing Aid Center with two locations in RI, he has working affiliations with 6 of the largest hearing aid manufactures in the world. Since 2004 he has been researching and developing the design and use of 3D scanners for the healthcare industry. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Bryant University