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Management

Mike DePasquale - President & CEO
Mr. DePasquale brings more than 20 years of successful executive and sales and marketing experience as Director and CEO of BIO-key International. Most recently, he was President and CEO of Prism eSolutions a company specializing in professional consulting services and online solutions for ISO-9001/14000 certification for customers in manufacturing, healthcare and government markets. Mr. DePasquale has also served as Group Vice President for WRC Media, Sr. Vice President of Jostens Learning, Vice President of Sales and Marketing with McGraw-Hill; and as Director of Marketing and Sales Group Manager with Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. DePasquale holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Management and Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and has attended both the Harvard University and Babson College Executive Development Programs. Mike is also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Biometrics and Identification Industry Association.

Mira K. LaCous - Vice President of Technology & Development, Biometrics
Mira LaCous has nearly 20 years of software development plus over 8 years of company leadership experience. Ms LaCous has lead and managed software development and product management teams most of her career. Mira's background includes successfully bringing technology to market including automated voice response systems, building control systems, software piracy protection, intranet training materials and testing, page layout and design software, scanning software and systems, biometric security, biometric algorithms and more. Ms LaCous is also the author of several patented and patent pending technologies and has been an officer or director of three companies; National Computer Systems (NCS), TEL-Line Systems and BIO-key International. Ms LaCous has Bachelors in Computer Science from the North Dakota State University as well as all but Dissertation towards a Masters Degree.

Cecilia Welch - Chief Financial Officer
Ceci Welch has more than 20 years of operational and financial management experience in a diverse selection of technology corporations. Prior to joining BIO-key, she was Controller for Savaje Technologies, Crystal Systems and ATN Microwave (acquired by Agilent Technologies). Mrs. Welch has a Bachelors degree in Accounting from Franklin Pierce University.

Scott Mahnken - Vice President of Marketing
Mr. Mahnken brings over 20 years of marketing experience and success through strategic marketing and building dynamic relationships with channel partners. Immediately prior to joining BIO-key, Mahnken served as President of Edge Marketing, a leading marketing consulting firm in the dental and medical devices industries. Mahnken also served as Director of Marketing at Milestone Scientific Inc, manufacturers of computer controlled anesthetic delivery medical devices and Director of Partnership Relations at ArcMesa Educators, an organization dedicated to providing accredited continuing education to medical and dental providers. For Mahnken his career in marketing began with Lanmark Group a leading healthcare advertising agency. Mahnken is a graduate of the University of New Orleans, where he earned a Bachelors of Art degree in Marketing. .

Board of Directors

Tom Colatosti - Chairman
Thomas J. Colatosti currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of American Security Ventures, a consulting firm he founded which specializes in providing strategic management consulting services to emerging and developing companies in the homeland security industry. Mr. Colatosti served as the Chief Executive Officer of Viisage Technology, Inc., a publicly traded biometric technology company focusing on biometric face recognition technology and highly secure identification documents and systems. Mr. Colatosti also served as CEO of CIS Corporation and was Vice President of Digital Equipment Corporation's $1.2 billion Federal Systems Division.

Jeff May - Director
Jeffery J. May has served as the President of Gideons Point Capital, a Tonka Bay Minnesota based financial consulting firm and angel investor focusing on assisting and investing in start-up technology companies. In 1983, Mr. May co-found Advantek, Inc., a manufacturer of equipment and materials which facilitate the automatic handling of semi-conductors and other electrical components which was sold in 1993. Mr. May continued to serve as a director and Vice-President of Operations of Advantek until 1997, at which time it had over 600 employees and sales in excess of $100 million. Mr. May earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1983.

Charlie Romeo - Director
Mr. Romeo founded FreedomBridge, a consulting and services company specializing in providing sales and marketing services to technology companies in the Homeland security industry. Through its network of relationships with large multi-national technology companies, FreedomBridge assists companies with their marketing and sales distribution channels by forming teaming agreements, strategic alliances and partnerships in the law enforcement market. Mr. Romeo's career includes senior executive level sales and marketing positions with Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. As Vice President at Compaq, his responsibilities included managing a $500 million sales division.

John Schoenherr - Director
John Schoenherr is the Vice President, Analytic Solutions for Oracle Corporation. John has been with Oracle since 1995 and is responsible for the development of Oracle's Corporate Performance Management (CPM) initiative, as well as Enterprise Planning and Budgeting, Public Sector Budgeting, Demand Planning, Activity Based Management, Performance Analyzer, Financial Analyzer, and Sales Analyzer. With over 25 years experience in the area of business intelligence, he is a regular speaker at Oracle conferences on the topic of CPM and analytic applications. Prior to Oracle, John was Senior Vice President of development of analytic applications at Information Resources, Inc.