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James B. DeBello, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. DeBello was named President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2003. He has served as a director of Mitek since 1994. Since joining Mitek Systems as CEO, Mr. DeBello has transformed the Company into a leading developer of smartphone applications that leverage the capabilities of the cell phone camera and address high growth markets. Prior to being named Chief Executive Officer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of AsiaCorp Communications from 2001 to May 2003. Prior to that, he served as Venture CEO of IdeaEdge Ventures from 2000 to 2001. Prior to that, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of CollegeClub.com from 1999 to 2000, Chief Operating Officer of Wireless Knowledge in 1998, a joint venture between Qualcomm and Microsoft, and Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm's Eudora Internet Division from 1996 to 1998.

Prior to beginning his career managing technology companies, Mr. DeBello was the youngest executive hired by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Olympics, which remain the most financially successful games staged. Mr. DeBello has been a featured keynote speaker at the Shanghai Government International Business Forum, China Telecommunications Development Forum, and the Greek National Economic Development Forum. He holds a B.A., magna cum laude, and M.B.A. from Harvard University, and was a Rotary Scholar at the University of Singapore where he studied economics and Chinese.

Dr. Grigori Nepomniachtchi, Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Nepomniachtchi serves as Chief Technology Officer and leads Mitek's scientific research staff in the United States and Russia. He is an accomplished international expert in image preprocessing, and has played a principle role developing Mitek's industry leading IMagePROVE recognition technologies for cell phone camera applications.

Prior to becoming CTO in September 2003, Dr. Neponmniachtchi served as Mitek's Chief Scientist between 1999 and 2003. He joined Mitek in 1996 as Staff Scientist.

Before joining Mitek, Dr. Dr. Nepomniachtchi worked as Senior Analyst at AUDRE Inc., where he designed and implemented Optical Character Recognition and Geometrical Recognition engines for converting engineering drawings, maps and electronic schematics into machine-readable format.

While at Mitek, Dr. Nepomniachtchi created Mitek's advanced algorithms for finding dynamic data in unstrucutured forms. These algorithms enable Mitek's award winning DynaFind toolkit for EOB, HCFA and invoice processing. His work in image enhancement and form identification has contributed to Mitek's leadership in the intelligent character recognition industry. Most recently, he has invented various fraud detection techniques including signature and check stock validation which are the foundation of Mitek's Check Image Analytics.

Dr. Nepomniachtchi holds 4 patents in image analysis and intelligent character recognition. He has published more than 40 technical papers and has spoken at numerous international conferences on Document / Image Analysis and Understanding, Pattern Recognition and Biometrics.

Dr. Nepomniachtchi has a M.S. in Math and a Ph.D. in Topology/Geometry from the Lomonosow University in Moscow, Russia. Dr. Nepomniachtchi was recognized as Outstanding Researcher/Professor by the United States INS in 1995.

Josh Roach, Vice President of Engineering

Mr. Roach is responsible for all product design, engineering, product management and testing and joined Mitek as Vice President of Engineering in November, 2008. He is the principle architect of Mitek's Oomph mobile applications. He is an experienced software technology executive and chief architect with an extensive history of large-scale software development in a variety of companies. Prior to joining Mitek, Mr. Roach was Chief Technology Officer at Printable Technologies, a leader in SaaS Online Marketing Software, from 2006 to 2008, and CTO and co-Founder of ConVisia, an Hosted Image Collaboration System from 2004 to 2006. In addition, Mr. Roach held Vice President of Engineering positions at Intuit, Accelrys and was also an engineering executive with HNC software between 1993 and 1998.

Mr. Roach specializes in web-based SaaS, enterprise and B2B/B2C eCommerce systems. He brings a strong process orientation (Six Sigma, Agile) focused on execution and product delivery, including modern object-oriented software development (including ASP.NET, Java/J2EE and LAMP multi-tiered architectures). He has led engineering as well as product management teams, providing mentoring and leadership development among all levels of software organizations. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from SDSU.

Board of Directors

  • James B. DeBello, CEO, CFO & President, Mitek Systems
  • John M. Thornton, Chairman of the Board
  • Michael W. Bealmear, Chief Executive Officer, HyperRoll, Inc.
  • Vinton Cunningham, Director (retired CFO, EdVision and Rawlings)
  • William P. Tudor, CEO, Parent Tutor Corporation
  • Dr. Gerald I. Farmer, Executive Vice President, Mitek Systems (retired)
  • Sally B. Thornton, Investor
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IMagePROVE™ Technology

IMagePROVE technology turns your smartphone's camera into a "virtual" document scanner. It converts any document you photograph with your phone into a digital image that is equivalent in size, resolution and quality to documents you used to scan at your office.

Unlike their scanned counterparts, mobile images captured by camera phones are exposed to variable lighting conditions, various angles, and focal distance. Ouch. Ever take a bad photo at a birthday party? Well, you can do the same with a document. Let's face it, even with steady hands and good conditions, "raw" photos of documents taken by your phone are drastically different: they may have extra objects in the frame like keys or a coffee cup that can throw the processing off, or they may be an unknown size and resolution from the original document. Even worse, in most cases the document in the photo is often geometrically distorted, skewed or warped. As a result, the quality of the "raw" mobile document image is virtually useless. That's where OOMPH ! has a big advantage.

IMagePROVE uses advanced algorithms to identify and fix all these problems. Picture crooked? We'll straighten it. Warped? We'll un-warp it. Light shadows? We'll remove them. IMagePROVE automatically makes each mobile document picture perfect and equivalent to a scanned image.


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Mobile Receipt Customer Testimonial

"Just a short note to say that I've just downloaded Mobile Receipt for the iPhone and wanted to write and tell you and your team what a fantastic job you've done on that app. Without a doubt, it's the best iPhone app that I've yet seen.

I run a campaign in Australia called The Paper-Less Alliance (www.PaperLessAlliance.com) and I'm really impressed with how easy you make it for people to create expenses reports without using paper (you also make it a lot easier full stop).

As someone who is hopeless when it comes to putting together receipt reports (and I mean truly hopeless to the point of incompetence) I did all my receipts this morning using Mobile Receipt. I'm sure my PA fell off her chair when that expenses report came through!

With best regards and thanks for a very useful app."

JON DEE
FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN
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