CRi

George A. Abe has been President and CEO of CRi since 2003, and served as Vice President of Marketing and Development in 2002. 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, spanning a twelve-year period, 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 is also a member of the Board of Directors of Candela Laser (NASDAQ: CLZR), a provider of medical aesthetic laser solutions. He holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Engineering from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), a Masters 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).

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.

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 principle 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 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.

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).

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.

Richard Levenson MD, FCAP joined CRi in 1999. He received his undergraduate degree in History and Literature at Harvard College, his medical degree at the University of Michigan and his pathology training at Washington University, St. Louis. Following a research fellowship at the University of Rochester, he accepted a faculty position in the pathology department at Duke University. He then moved to Carnegie Mellon University where he began to develop applications in biology and medicine for multispectral imaging. He serves on a number of NIH study sections, and is currently Principal Investigator on NIH-funded grants for the development of automated, multiplexed pathology instrumentation, 3-dimensional multispectral small-animal imaging systems, and high-speed birefringence optical microscopy for real-time, intrinsic-contrast cellular imaging. He also holds a number of patents in these areas.