CRi

• George A. Abe, President and Chief Executive Officer

  George A. Abe has been President and CEO of CRi since 2003, previously serving as Vice President of Marketing and Development. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Abe held Vice President positions in Strategy, Development, and Marketing with Genuity (formerly GTE), an internet infrastructure service provider. Prior to that, from 1985 to 1997, Mr. Abe held several technical and senior management positions with Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN Corporation), a Cambridge, MA-based high technology and services company. Mr. Abe has also served on the board of several private and public high technology and medical device firms. He holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Engineering from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), a Master of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and is a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program (MIT, Sloan School of Management).

• Clifford Hoyt, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

  Clifford C. Hoyt, a founder of CRi, joined the company full-time in 1987 as Staff Scientist. Prior to joining CRi, from 1983 to 1985 he was employed at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. as a Staff Scientist. He has played a central role in the development of many of CRi core technologies, including the liquid crystal tunable filter for multispectral and polarized light imaging, and then the integration of these core technologies into analytical instruments for applications such as in vitro fertilization, high-throughput drug screening, stem cell research, in vivo small animal imaging, live-cell biology, and tissue-based immunohistochemical analysis. He holds 12 patents, numerous patents pending, and is the author or co-author of 20 publications in technical journals. He has served on NIH study sections, and has been the Principal Investigator on 10 SBIR and STTR NIH grants, including an STTR that was used by the US Senate as an example of SSTR program goals. Mr. Hoyt has also served as an invited speaker and has given numerous technical papers and posters at scientific meetings worldwide. He holds a BA in Physics from Williams College and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

• Darren Lee, Vice President, Marketing

  Darren Lee comes to CRi with more than 20 years of experience in marketing management, business development and engineering in the life sciences and clinical diagnostics industries. He has held senior-level management positions at Primera Biosystems, a molecular diagnostics company, and Decision Biomarkers, a life-science systems developer. He has also served in senior management positions at PerkinElmer and Packard Bioscience. He has a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering Technology from Temple University and an M.S. in Technology Management from Pepperdine University.

• Theodore Les, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

  Theodore I. Les joined CRi in November 2000. Mr. Les brings 30 years of financial and business expertise in finance, mergers and acquisitions and strategic alliances in fast-growth technology companies. From 1999 to 2000, he served as Vice President of Finance for GTE Technology Corporation. From 1981 to 1998 he was Vice President of Finance with Internet pioneer Bolt Beranek and Newman (renamed BBN Corporation). Mr. Les is a Certified Public Accountant, and served in the high technology sector with assignments in IPO and Debt security financing at Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. Les holds a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Babson College with High Distinction. He has completed MBA coursework at Babson and is a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program (MIT, Sloan School of Management).

• Peter J. Miller, Vice President, Chief Science Officer

  Peter J. Miller, a founder of CRi in 1985, was a Staff Scientist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. in Cambridge from 1980 to 1983. In 1979 he held a visiting fellowship at the Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, CO. He received the Photonics Circle of Excellence, R&D 100, and CTA awards in 1992—1993 for the VariSpec tunable liquid crystal filter. He also received the Circle of Excellence and R&D 100 awards in 1989 for a liquid crystal-based laser power controller. He holds 16 patents and has authored or co-authored 14 papers in technical journals. Mr. Miller has been awarded numerous SBIR grants from NASA, NIST, and the Department of Energy. He holds a BA in Astronomy from Williams College and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Dartmouth College.

• Lou Spiridigliozzi, Vice President, Manufacturing Operations

  Lou Spiridigliozzi joined CRi in February of 2001. He is a former Development Manager at Panasonic (MKPA) where he was part of the four-member Optical Business Team focusing on developing an optical networking components manufacturing business. While at Panasonic, Lou was responsible for HGA’s precision-vision guided assembly, design and modeling of air-bearing geometries, process development and interfacing with manufacturing. Mr. Spiridigliozzi held the position of Development Manager at MKQC and Quantum. He has also worked for Digital as the Advanced Technology Manager. Lou holds an MS in Business, Material Science/ Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Board of Directors

• George A. Abe, President and Chief Executive Officer

  Mr. Abe has been President and CEO of CRi since 2003, previously serving as Vice President of Marketing and Development. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Abe held Vice President positions in Strategy, Development, and Marketing with Genuity (formerly GTE), an internet infrastructure service provider. Prior to that, from 1985 to 1997, Mr. Abe held several technical and senior management positions with Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN Corporation), a Cambridge, MA-based high technology and services company. Mr. Abe has also served on the board of several private and public high technology and medical device firms. He holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Engineering from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), a Master of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and is a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program (MIT, Sloan School of Management).

• Christopher Bottega, Director

  Mr. Bottega has served as a Director of the Company since April of 2006. Mr. Bottega is Chief Financial Officer of iXCore S.A.S., a French diversified international holding and investment company, located in Marly-le-Roi, France.

• Richard K. Brown, Director

  Dr. Brown has served as a Director of the Company since August 2009. He is President & CEO of AVIA Biosystems. Prior to founding AVIA, from 2006 to 2009, he was President & CEO of MicroCal (now part of GE Healthcare.) Prior to that, he held various executive positions at Isis Pharmaceuticals from 2001 to 2006, including Vice President of Business Development and President of GeneTrove, the functional genomics division of Isis. Additionally, he held various executive positions at Discovery Partners International from 1995 to 2001, including President of IRORI. Prior to DPI, from 1983 to 1995, Dr. Brown held various leadership positions with Zymark Corporation (now Caliper Life Sciences).

• F. Sherman Hoyt, Director

  Mr. Hoyt has served as a Director of the Company since 1992. Mr. Hoyt is a private investor. In 1989 he was a founder of Optical Corporation of America (OCA) and served as a director until its acquisition by Corning in 1997. He was a founder and director of dbi Corporation; principal, former CFO and director of Whistler Corporation, which was acquired by Dynatech. He founded and is President of Duxbury Bay Maritime School; Trustee of Green Mountain Valley School and the Nashua Symphony.

• John P. McDonough, Director

  Mr. McDonough has served as a Director of the Company since August 2009. He is President, CEO, and Board Director of T2 Biosystems, a medical diagnostics company developing point-of-care platforms. Prior to T2, he held numerous executive positions in corporate development and operations at Cytyc Corporation (now Hologic Corporation) from 2003 to 2006, including President of Cytyc Development Corporation. Prior to that, from 2000 to 2003, he founded and served as CEO and Chairman of the Board for Soundbite Communications. Mr. McDonough was also COO of Direct Hit Technologies from 1999 to 2000 until its sale to Ask Jeeves, President & CEO of Workgroup Technology Corporation from 1997 to 1999, and held numerous executive positions including President & CEO at Easel Corporation (now VMARK Software) from 1985-1995.

• Kenneth D. Roberts, Chairman of the Board of Directors

  Mr. Roberts has served as a Director of the Company since May 1999 and Chairman of the Board of Directors since January 2008. Mr. Roberts is a financial and strategic planning consultant for small and medium sized companies, mostly in the high technology area. He is Chairman of the Board of Candela Corporation, a medical laser systems company, and a Director of Apollo Solar, Inc, a manufacturer of electronics systems for solar power generation. He is also a Trustee of the Wentworth Institute of Technology.