CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING INSTITUTE.

Dr. Chao has been on the NCI Board since 1997 and Chairman and CEO since 1999. Dr. Chao is responsible for guiding the National Captioning Institute’s management team and providing strategic direction for the company. His business acumen and technological expertise have played key roles in the evolution of NCI’s captioning technology, allowing NCI to support its founding mission amidst an ever-changing world.

Dr. Chao received a BSEE degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a MSEE degree from San Jose State College, and a PhD degree from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering.

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Dr. Achintya K. (Achin) Bhowmik is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering at Starkey, a privately-held medical devices company with over 5,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s research and development, engineering and program management organizations, and leading the drive to transform hearing aids into multifunctional health and communication devices.

Previously, Dr. Bhowmik was vice president and general manager of Perceptual Computing at Intel, where he was responsible for the R&D, operations, and businesses in the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing, computer vision and artificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtual and mixed reality devices.

Dr. Bhowmik is on the faculty of Stanford University as an adjunct professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, where he advises research and lectures in the areas of sensory augmentation, computational perception, and intelligent systems. He has also held adjunct and guest professor positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Liquid Crystal Institute of the Kent State University, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He has authored over 200 publications, including two books and over 80 granted patents.

Dr. Bhowmik is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, board of trustees for the National Captioning Institute, board of directors for OpenCV, board of advisors for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley, industry advisory board for the Institute for Engineering in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is also on the board of directors and advisors for several technology companies.

His awards and honors include Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), President and Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Artificial Intelligence Excellence award by the Business Intelligence Group, Top 25 Healthcare Technology CTOs by the Healthcare Technology Report, Notable Leaders in Healthcare by Twin Cities Business, Healthcare Heroes award by the Business Journals, Industrial Distinguished Leader award from the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, TIME’s Best Inventions, and the Red Dot Design award.

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From 1996 to 2015, Susan Hayes served as President & CEO of ReSurge International (formerly Interplast, Inc.). As president, she ushered ReSurge through a strategic evolution from a direct service organization to one that also educates overseas medical professionals and builds permanent surgical capacity in developing countries. That evolution was documented in a Stanford Business School case study, which is marketed nationally.

Ms. Hayes came to ReSurge with 16 years of management, fundraising and media experience in public broadcasting, including as VP for development and publicity for the five TV/radio stations of Western New/Southern Ontario. Throughout her career, Hayes has served on nonprofit boards, including six years serving for Reading Partners, the fastest-growing literacy organization in the U.S., where she served as board chair in 2015-2016.

Ms. Hayes holds BA and MA degrees from the University of South Carolina in government & international studies, an MA in political science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and completed PhD coursework in political science at the Maxwell School. She is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders.

Hayes was actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa from 1973 to 1990. Raised in a segregated South, Hayes has actively pursued a lifelong commitment to eliminating racism and promoting women’s rights, and for 40 years has devoted personal time to the causes of Vietnam veterans.

Kathleen Joaquin served as Vice President, Compliance Officer, and Director of Regulatory Services for T. Rowe Price retail investor affiliates that included T. Rowe Price Associates, T. Rowe Price Investment Services, T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, and T. Rowe Price Brokerage Services.

She was appointed as a Senior Fellow in the Office of Regulatory Policy at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management from October 2015 to May 2018.

Prior to joining the SEC, Ms. Joaquin was Chief Industry Operations Officer of the Investment Company Institute. She joined ICI in 1989 as Director of Transfer Agency and International Operations and served as Director of Operations and Distribution. She was an officer with ICI Mutual Insurance Brokers, a wholly owned subsidiary of ICI Mutual Insurance Company from 1993 through February 1997.

Prior to ICI, Ms. Joaquin worked in corporate finance for Templeton Investments (now Franklin Templeton) and prior to that was an auditor with Ernst & Young. She received a B.S. degree in accounting from Florida Southern College and an MBA in international business from George Washington University.

She was a licensed CPA, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and holds a Series 7 General Securities Representative and a Series 24 General Principal license with FINRA.

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Mr. Morea is a Client Services Executive for Cisco Systems Inc., a worldwide technical leader that designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP) based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industries.

Currently at Cisco, Mr. Morea leads a team that focuses on Services Sales in the Cable/Multiple System Operator (“MSO”) segment. From 2005 until recently, Mr. Morea was a Sales Director at Nokia, Murray Hill, New Jersey, a company that provides networking and communications technology, products, and services to service providers, enterprises, and governments worldwide.

At Nokia, Mr. Morea successfully led the company into MSOs with Services Sales supporting projects such as Cell Site Backhaul, Wi-Fi Planning, Multi-Vendor Support, Design and Deployment Services, as well as Network Operations outsourcing.

Previously, Mr. Morea was Vice President of the Northeast for Tech Mahindra, a global system integrator and business transformation consulting organization focused on the communications industry.

Mr. Morea has also held executive positions at Ericsson, (Former Telcordia Technologies), a leading global provider of telecommunications network software, and services for IP, wireline, wireless and cable; and Verizon, New York, New York, a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services.

Additionally, Mr. Morea was previously on the Board of Directors for Alteva, a Unified Communications Provider and Independent Local Exchange Company.

Mr. Morea holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York Maritime College and a Masters in Business Administration degree in Finance from Fordham University.

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Drake Smith was a former Chief Technology Officer for the National Captioning Institute and oversaw all key service improvements including the development of speech recognition-based captioning, a web-based scheduling and resource allocation system, and the delivery of services by data networks rather than phone lines to improve reliability.

Mr. Smith’s relationship with NCI spans more than 30 years, beginning with his development of the world’s first single-chip closed caption decoder while at ITT Semiconductors.

Before joining NCI, he helped promote the use of closed captioning technology overseas, and he represented NCI on the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) working group that created the captioning standard for digital TV. Mr. Smith continues to serve NCI as a member of its Board of Trustees.

Prior to NCI, Mr. Smith founded ULTECH LLC that manufactured broadcast video equipment including closed caption data encoders. He oversaw the bidding and management for custom projects including the design and installation of video data systems for NASA that remotely controlled video cameras for the Space Shuttle program.

Mr. Smith received a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Technology from the University of Lowell and a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Brandeis University.