Management

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Carl Mergele
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Mergele brings more than 20 years of executive leadership experience to Brainware. He is responsible for setting the company’s strategic corporate direction, overseeing the introduction of Brainware's products, and achieving annual financial goals.

Prior to Brainware, Mr. Mergele served as Chief Executive Officer of SER Solutions, Inc. where he managed the successful integration of three companies that formed SER Solutions, and then lead the management buyout of SER Solutions from SER Systems AG. Mr. Mergele managed SER Solutions through significant growth and profitability, directed the divestiture of SER’s DMS business, and led the spin-off of Brainware, Inc. in February 2006.

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James Zubok
Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel
With a strong background in patent enforcement and protecting intellectual property, James Zubok has worked to secure worldwide patents for the core Brainware engine and the company's other technology, helping protect Brainware's product line. His litigation expertise and in-depth knowledge of related technology tools have helped guide the company's strategy in selling Globalbrain to the legal industry.

Before joining Brainware, Mr. Zubok served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at SER Solutions, Inc. where he assisted Mr. Mergele in effectuating the MBO from SER Systems AG, divesting SER’s DMS business, and spinning off Brainware, Inc. Prior to joining SER, Mr. Zubok served as outside counsel to SER Solutions and other companies as a lawyer in the New York offices of Fulbright and Jaworski, LLP, an international law firm with over 900 lawyers.

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Mark HELWEGE
Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Mark brings over 25 years of extensive domestic and international experience in building,
re-vitalizing and re-positioning sales organizations in multiple industries and technologies. He was most recently the Vice President, Western US and Canada with Appian Corporation, a leading provider of Business Process Management software.

Mark has also played a major role in building and leading sales and marketing organizations on a national and international basis, for a variety of hardware, enterprise software, and professional services organizations including: REL Consultancy Group; Western Computer Services/US Medtrans; Simauthor, Inc.; Newbridge Networks, Inc.; and ICG Fiber Optic Technologies, Inc.

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Gerard Lopez
Vice President of EMEA Operations
Mr. Lopez is based at the company’s office in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where he previously served as Director of the Canton for the Neuchâtel Economical Development Agency (DEN). As Cantonal Director, Mr. Lopez negotiated business contracts with numerous companies in the high-tech, medical, manufacturing, R&D, finance and other fields, significantly expanding economic activity, jobs, and commercial tax revenue in the Neuchâtel region.

Prior to his position with DEN, Mr. Lopez served as Corporate Business Development Director for Merisant, Inc., where he designed and implemented go-to-market strategies, oversaw growth of indirect/partner channels, and contributed to overall revenue growth. He also served as Merisant’s Director of International Operations, responsible for manufacturing, engineering, logistics, customer service, planning, quality, and purchasing.

Before joining Merisant, Mr. Lopez was Operations Director at Silicon Graphics, based in Switzerland and covering EMEA businesses. At Silicon, he directed business development units responsible for P&L of nearly $60 million. Before joining Silicon, Mr. Lopez worked for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Paris, where he directed operational activities in DEC’s emerging European markets.

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Dale L. Bargar
Vice President of Operations
Mr. Bargar oversees Brainware’s service delivery and quality, customer support, and customer satisfaction. He has held a variety of C-level and other senior roles in operations management and business development; IT infrastructure design and implementation; corporate management and business process improvement; and entrepreneurial and consulting leadership positions.

Before joining Brainware, Mr. Bargar was Corporate Director of IT for Lifoam Industries, a division of the equity and asset management firm, American Capital Strategies. He has also held senior positions at CAS Severn Inc., Distribution Plus, Inc., Bechtel Engineering, and the U.S. House of Representatives (House Information Systems).

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charles kaplan
Vice President of Marketing and Product Management
Mr. Kaplan oversees Brainware’s global marketing and product management activities. His experience includes 15 years in information technology and applied information analysis in such areas as product marketing, product management, revenue management, and financial analysis. He comes to Brainware from DecisionPath Consulting where he headed the marketing and business development functions for this business intelligence and data warehousing consulting firm.

His prior work experience also includes senior-level product management and marketing roles in the document capture market with SER Solutions, in the telecom industry with 2nd Century Communications, and in the travel industry with American Airlines and Marriott International. Throughout his career, he has excelled at launching innovative, technology-based solutions that address the needs of complex business challenges.

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Werner Voegeli
Director of Research and Development
An accomplished scientist and engineer, Mr. Voegeli and his team of PhD's from the University of Oldenburg in Germany have developed patented and patent-pending neural network technology that allows a user to "teach" Brainware's software how to read, analyze, and classify information. The Brainware development team is focused on ensuring that new releases of technology meet the latest needs of Brainware's customers.

A citizen of Switzerland, Mr. Voegeli was first hired by SER in 1997 as founder of ARCO Trading AG to develop new learning software based on neural-network and support vector machine technology. Mr. Voegeli has also created software that can analyze and classify an individual's unique speech pattern using sophisticated pattern- matching capabilities.