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Officers

Anna M. Chagnon
President and
Chief Executive Officer

Anna Chagnon has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company since October 2003 and as President since August 2000. She has previously served in various positions at the company including Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and General Counsel.

Prior to joining the company, she served as Counsel to Progress Software Corporation, a developer and worldwide supplier of solutions to build, deploy, and manage applications across Internet, client/server, and host/terminal computing environments. She has also practiced law at the Boston firms of Peabody & Arnold and Warner & Stackpole, where she specialized in fields of corporate, securities, finance, and intellectual property law.

Ms. Chagnon holds an MBA, summa cum laude, from Babson College. She also holds a BS, summa cum laude, from Northeastern University, and a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.


John Collins
Vice President and
Chief Technology Officer

John Collins has been with Bitstream since 1986. He currently holds the position of Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.

Since joining the company, he has been active in the development of several key pieces of font technology which have established Bitstream as a leader in its field. These technologies include Fontware, Speedo, 4-in-1, TrueDoc and, most recently, the world's smallest stroke-based fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. These developments have resulted in five U.S. patents being awarded.

Prior to joining Bitstream, he held positions with Linotype Canada where he developed a line of low-cost interactive composition systems and SYS Computer Corporation, where he developed advanced (for that time) microprogrammed video display controllers.

Mr. Collins holds both B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of London, England.


James P. Dore
Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer

Jim Dore was named a Vice President and the Company's Chief Financial Officer in March 2003 and has been the Company's Corporate Controller since June 1999.

Mr. Dore has over twenty years of service in various senior financial positions. From January 1997 to June 1999, Mr. Dore served as Corporate Controller at Celerity Solutions Inc. (bulletin board- CLTY), a developer and marketer of supply chain and warehouse management business software, he also served as Celerity's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from April 1999 to June of 1999.

Mr. Dore holds a C.P.A. certificate and a B.S. degree, with distinction, from Clarkson University.


Sampo Kaasila
Vice President of Research and Development

Sampo Kaasila joined Bitstream in November 1998 upon the acquisition of his company, Type Solutions, Inc.

From August, 1989 to November 1998, he was a founder and President of Type Solutions, Inc., a leading developer of font technologies including T2K, a font renderer which provides an object oriented design, advanced architecture and algorithms, and a clean API resulting in maximum reliability, performance, and easy integration.

From August, 1987 to August, 1989, Mr. Kaasila worked at Apple Computer, Inc. and was the Lead Engineer and Inventor of the TrueType technology now part of every Macintosh and Windows system.

Mr. Kaasila's font technology and mobile browsing inventions have resulted in the awarding of ten U.S. patents.

Mr. Kaasila holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden where he graduated first in his class in January 1983.


Costas Kitsos
Vice President of Engineering

Costas Kitsos has headed up Pageflex's Research & Development arm since its inception. He also serves as VP of Engineering for Bitstream.

Mr. Kitsos is a veteran software developer with over fifteen years' experience in type and publishing application development.

Before joining Bitstream in 1996, Mr. Kitsos headed IconWorks, where he developed award-winning type applications and offered consulting services on end-user programs and graphical user interfaces.

He holds a Masters degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.


Board of Directors

George B. Beitzel
Director

Retired Senior Vice President and Director of International Business Machines Corporation. Currently serving on the Board of Directors of Bankers Trust Company, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, Computer Task Group, Inc., Actuate Inc. and Staff Leasing, Inc.


Anna M. Chagnon
President and
Chief Executive Officer

Anna Chagnon has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company since October 2003 and as President since August 2000. She has previously served in various positions at the company including Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and General Counsel.

Prior to joining the company, she served as Counsel to Progress Software Corporation, a developer and worldwide supplier of solutions to build, deploy, and manage applications across Internet, client/server, and host/terminal computing environments. She has also practiced law at the Boston firms of Peabody & Arnold and Warner & Stackpole, where she specialized in fields of corporate, securities, finance, and intellectual property law.

Ms. Chagnon holds an MBA, summa cum laude, from Babson College. She also holds a BS, summa cum laude, from Northeastern University, and a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.


Amos Kaminski
Director

Founder, President and Director of Interfid Ltd., a private investment advisory firm. Founder, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of AFA Asset Services, Inc., a private real estate asset management company.


David G. Lubrano
Director

Co-founder and retired Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Apollo Computer, Inc., a corporation engaged in the manufacturing of computer workstations.


Charles Ying
Chairman of the Board of Directors

Charles Ying has served as Chairman of the Board for Bitstream since 1997.

From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Ying served as CEO of Information International, Inc., a corporation engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing, and marketing computer-based systems that automate document production and publishing.

Mr. Ying also serves on the Board of NodeWarrior Networks Inc., an Internet service provider located in Los Angeles, California.

Mr. Ying holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT.

 


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