Executive Biographies

J. Larry Smart - Chairman and CEO

Mr. Smart has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Visioneer from April 1997 until May 1999 and remains with the company as Chairman. From July 1995 to February 1997, Mr. Smart was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Micropolis Corporation, a storage products company. From March 1994 to February 1995, Mr. Smart was President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxtor Corporation, a storage products company. From March 1991 to March 1994, Mr. Smart was President and Chief Executive Officer of Southwall Technologies, a thin films products company. In the past 5 years, Mr. Smart has served as Chairman of Solectus, Inc., Wirestone,Inc., Southwall Technolgies, Inc., EchoBahn.com Inc., Savoir Technologies, Inc., Soque Holdings Bermuda Ltd., Polaris Electronics Inc., and Soque Capital, LLP. Also, within the past 5 years Mr. Smart has served as a Director of ScanSoft Inc., Quicknet Technologies, and International Manufacturing Services, Inc.

Greg Elder - Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Greg is responsible for finance and administration. Elder has over 14 years of collective accounting, finance and administrative experience in start up and turn around corporate environments. Elder has a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Accounting from California State University, Hayward and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree with an emphasis in Finance and International Business from Saint Mary's College.

Walter Thinfen - Chief Information Officer

Walt Thinfen is responsible for directing all aspects of technology, ERP implementation, business process improvement and systems development. He brings to the Visioneer team extensive systems development and information management experience, along with a wealth of knowledge and leadership skills from more than 15 years experience in systems implementation, business operations and project management, with particular expertise in ERP systems including SAP, Oracle and CRM softwares. Thinfen graduated from California State University school of Business Administration with emphasis on Information Systems.

Bill Kouzi - Senior Vice President of Sales and Customer Service

Bill Kouzi oversees Visioneer's corporate sales and customer service organizations for North America and Latin America.  An industry veteran, Kouzi has over 18 years of sales experience and provides valuable leadership and management to the Visioneer sales team, while he continues to focus on expanding vertical market solutions for the VAR channel.  Kouzi was previously vice president of sales for Laserfiche and has a solid executive sales management background in Information Technology and document management.

Bob Scaglia - Senior Vice President of of Retail and E-tail Sales

Bob Scaglia is responsible for the company's North America Retail Sales strategy. Scaglia has 12 years experience in the scanner industry. Scaglia joined Visioneer in 1998 and previously held positions in Sales and Customer Service at Mustek Corporation. Scaglia attended Cal-State University Fullerton and holds an Associates Degree in Electronics.

Jon Harju - Senior Vice President of Engineering

Known as one of the industry’s foremost TWAIN driver developers, Harju oversees all hardware and software development for Visioneer and Xerox DocuMate scanners ensuring a leadership position in driver development and integration with document management software from ISVs and proprietary applications from major corporations. As President of JFL Peripheral Solutions Inc., an active member of the TWAIN Working Group, Harju serves on the board of directors in the position of Co-Chair and has a solid reputation for helping other developers. Harju also participates in the combined efforts of the most influential document imaging companies to overhaul TWAIN, take it out of the consumer space and make it more appropriate for business and industrial oriented applications.

John Capurso - Vice President of Enterprise Marketing

John Capurso is responsible for product and corporate marketing at Visioneer. He brings over 20 years of experience in digital imaging, document management and printing. Previously John served as Vice President of Sales for ScanSoft, a paper to digital software provider. He also held a variety of strategic sales positions within the imaging and publishing divisions at Adobe Systems for nine years where desktop publishing and PDF technology were born. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and an M.B.A. (Marketing) from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

John Dexter - Vice President of Business Development

John Dexter is responsible for consulting and implementing enterprise-wide document management capture systems and managing ISV relationships. He also provides input on future product development based on extensive time spent in the field. Before his appointment to director of business development, John supported the Visioneer sales team as a senior sales engineer. John holds numerous certifications including Microsoft MCP, CompTIA A+ and CDIA+, as well as Cisco CCNA. John was previously a sales engineer and network analyst at Fujitsu Computer Products of America.