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About Aware > Corporate Management
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Michael A. Tzannes
Chief Executive Officer
Michael A. Tzannes has been Aware's chief executive officer since April 1998 and has served as a director of Aware since March 1998. Mr. Tzannes also served as Aware's president from April 1998 to March 2001. From September 1997 to April 1998, he served as Aware's chief technology officer and general manager of telecommunications. Mr. Tzannes served as Aware's senior vice president, telecommunications from April 1996 to September 1997, as Aware's vice president, telecommunications from December 1992 to April 1996, as a senior member of Aware's technical staff from January 1991 to November 1992, and as a consultant to Aware from October 1990 to December 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was a staff engineer at Signatron, Inc., a telecommunications technology and systems developer. Mr. Tzannes received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tufts University, an M.S. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and a B.S. from the University of Patras, Greece.
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Edmund C. Reiter
President
Edmund C. Reiter has served as Aware's president since March 2001 and as a director of Aware since December 1999. Before his election as president, Mr. Reiter served as a senior vice president from May 1998 to March 2001, as Aware's vice president, advanced products from August 1995 to May 1998, as Aware's manager of product development for still image compression products from June 1994 to August 1995, as a senior member of Aware's technical staff from November 1993 to June 1994, and as a member of Aware's technical staff from December 1992 to November 1993. Mr. Reiter served as senior scientist at New England Research, Inc. from January 1991 to November 1992. Mr. Reiter received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. from Boston College.
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Richard P. Moberg
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer Rick Moberg has more than 30 years of financial experience, with 23 of those years as a senior financial executive in the technology industry. Mr. Moberg first joined Aware in 1996 and was responsible for completing the company’s IPO in addition to managing all administrative functions including investor relations, legal, tax and treasury, IS and HR. After seven years with the company, Mr. Moberg left Aware in 2003 and served as CFO for Crossbeam Systems for several years before rejoining Aware as CFO in early 2008. Prior to Aware in 1996, Mr. Moberg spent six years at Lotus Development Corporation where he started as director of financial services and departed as corporate controller. Before Lotus, he served as vice president of finance and administration at Crystal Products, Inc. and treasurer and CFO at Foster Medical Supply, Inc. Mr. Moberg holds a B.B.A. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.B.A. from Bentley College.
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Richard Gross
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Richard W. Gross was appointed to Senior Vice President in July 1999. Mr. Gross also served as Vice President, Strategic Development from July 1998 to July 1999. Prior to the VP position, he held various senior level engineering positions from the time he joined Aware in September 1993 until July 1998. Prior to joining Aware, Mr. Gross was a senior technical staff member at GTE Laboratories from 1987 to 1993; a technical staff member at the Heinrich Hertz Institute from 1984 to 1987; and a programmer for IBM, Federal Systems Division from 1980 to 1984. Mr. Gross received a Ph.D. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island and a B.A. in physics from Holy Cross College. |
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