Charles L. Abraham
Chief Executive Officer

Charles Abraham is a medical technology veteran with more than 23 years of experience in medical imaging and medical devices. Mr. Abraham began his career at General Electric Medical Systems where he spent 17 years in sales, product management and general management roles. His last assignment was as Global Business Manager of the Vascular X-ray Imaging Business. Mr. Abraham left GE to join Nellcor Puritan Bennett as Vice President and General Manager of their Global Sleep Solutions Business.

Before coming to OraMetrix, Mr. Abraham had been Chief Executive Officer of eMerge Interactive, Inc., a company delivering technology-based food safety and livestock management solutions to the U.S. beef production industry. In 1999, he led the company to a $105 million initial public offering on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange.

Mr. Abraham received a bachelor of science degree in biological engineering at Mississippi State University at Starkville.

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Jay Widdig
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Before joining OraMetrix, Mr. Widdig served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary of Intrusion Inc., a publicly traded network security company, from 1999 to 2002. From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Widdig held various managerial positions, including Senior Director of Finance and Administration, at Cyrix Corporation, a semiconductor company. From 1985 to 1992, Mr. Widdig served Texas Instruments and Halliburton Company in various financial roles.

Mr. Widdig holds a masters of business administration degree from Oklahoma City University and a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Cameron University.

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Dr. Rohit Sachdeva, BDS, M.dentSc.
Chief Clinical Officer

Previously, Dr. Sachdeva was a Professor of Orthodontics at Baylor College of Dentistry Texas A&M University System in Dallas. He has also served on the faculties of the Universities of Connecticut and Manitoba, and has held numerous visiting faculty positions at internationally recognized universities. He is internationally recognized for his contributions in the field of orthodontics, especially in the areas of bioengineering and material sciences. He is the developer of copper nickel titanium and titanium niobium orthodontic alloys and titanium brackets, and holds more than a dozen patents in the medical and dental fields.

Dr. Sachdeva received his dental degree from the University of Nairobi (Kenya) in 1978. He earned his Certificate in Orthodontics and Masters in Dental Science at the University of Connecticut in 1983. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics, and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Japanese Society of Promotion of Science Fellowship Award.

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Phillip Getto
Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Getto has spent more than 17 years in the industry developing commercial and technical software systems. He was recently senior vice president of MCAD product development and delivery at Parametric Technology Corp, where he was responsible for all aspects and phases of software development and delivery effort for Pro/ENGINEER^®, Pro/Intralink^®, CADDS 5^® Optegra^®, Pro/Desktop^® and Medusa^®, including product definition, program management, software development, testing, documentation, internationalization, integration and release management. While at PTC, he led the successful efforts to improve Pro/ENGINEER quality and usability. Mr. Getto had been manager of geometric modeling R&D for Rasna Corp., when it was acquired by Parametric.

Mr. Getto received a bachelor of science and master of engineering degrees in computer and systems engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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Jerry D. Metz
Vice President, Operations

Mr. Metz previously was Vice President, Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing for Trulite, Inc., which was an integrated hydrogen fuel source and fuel cell product company. From 1995 to 2003, he worked for Teccor Electronics, starting as a Product and Development Engineer and shortly there after becoming Vice President of Manufacturing, where he directed all manufacturing operations for this international semiconductor company. Mr. Metz was certified as a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt in 1996.

Mr. Metz received his bachelor of science in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his master of business administration at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

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Friedrich (Fritz) Riemeier
General Manager - Europe

Mr. Riemeier is one of the founders of OraMetrix, Inc. and GmbH and serves today as Geschäftsführer (general manager) of the the company's German subsidiary, OraMetrix GmbH, and as Vice President of European Operations. He is a co-inventor of the company's key technologies and leads OraMetrix GmbH's operations. Before OraMetrix, he was co-founder and general manager of a tool engineering and robotic company.

Mr. Riemeier spent the first five years of his career as Geschäftsführer (CEO) of Komet GmbH, a tool and mould engineering company that he founded in 1979. He received a degree in toolmaking and injection moulding from the Handwerkskammer Berlin.

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Andrea Wiseman
Vice President of Sales, North America

Ms. Wiseman began her career in diagnostic medical imaging at General Electric from 1982 to 1997 as a technical trainer and manager of X-ray and CT applications. She entered the sales arena at GE as a Cardiac and Vascular Sales Specialist. This led to her taking a position in 1997 at Toshiba America Medical Systems and earning the number one Business Development Manager award in 1998. Ms. Wiseman was promoted and became first female regional sales manager at TAMS in 1999.

Her next positions included sales management at two start-up ventures, PatientKeeper, a wireless handheld integration service company, and ONI Medical, an orthopedic magnetic resonance company.

Ms. Wiseman received a bachelor's degree in radiologic technology from St. Joseph’s College in Maine concurrently with an radiologic technologist certification from Monmouth Medical Center in New Jersey.

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Danesh (Dan) de Silva
Vice President of Marketing, North America

Before joining OraMetrix, Mr. de Silva was Director of Marketing at eMerge Interactive from 1999 to 2001 where he was responsible for marketing and product management of the company's software and hardware solutions. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. de Silva held various managerial positions, including Manager of Healthcare Marketing and Manager of Service Marketing at GE Information Services, a software and services division of the General Electric Company.

Mr. de Silva holds a bachelor of science degree in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University.

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