As a member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Fuss is a great source of technical knowledge and international business experience for Geomagic. Prior to his retirement in 1993, Fuss was president of Tellabs International, Inc., which he founded in 1987 as a subsidiary of Tellabs, Inc. Tellabs International is responsible for all Tellabs operations outside of North America with sales, R&D, or manufacturing facilities in 24 cities throughout the world. Before joining Tellabs in 1979, Mr. Fuss was director of research and development for Teletype Corporation and was with Bell Laboratories for 19 years. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1956 from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in 1960 from New York University. He also served two years as an officer in the United States Air Force. Mr. Fuss currently is a management consultant and executive vice president-technology for Batterson Venture Partners, LLC. He is a member of the Board of Directors of six technology companies. He holds 10 patents, primarily in the area of digital signal processing. |