Executives

GRAHAM SAMPSON: CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Mr. Sampson is a life long entrepreneur who has successfully built, sold and merged a number of businesses across a wide array of industries. Given his passion for using leading-edge technologies to create or improve processes and outcomes, Mr. Sampson has developed and patented more than a dozen methods and systems for achieving unit-level serialization of prescription and OTC drugs to prevent counterfeit medications and to protect the pharma industry alike. Before launching Secure Symbology, Mr. Sampson was the founder, Chairman and CEO of ECI Conference Call Services, a company with more than 300 employees and $40 million in annual revenue. Mr. Sampson was instrumental in structuring the sale of ECI to Teligent in September 2000, its repurchase from Teligent in January 2002, and its merger with West/Intercall in December 2004. As a result of Mr. Sampson's business acumen and overall business success, he has garnered many prestigious rewards, including: Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500 Company, from 1996 to 1999; NJ Business News' New Jersey's Finest Company Award, 1996 to 1999; Ernst & Young Business Services Entrepreneur of the Year 1997; the Massachusetts Mutual United States Commerce & Industry Award, 1998; and induction into the New Jersey Business Hall of Fame in 1999. Most recently, Mr. Sampson received the NJBiz Magazine sponsored, New Jersey's 2007 Emerging Business of the Year Award. Mr. Sampson's industry affiliations include the Healthcare Distribution Management Association, (HDMA), Electronic product Code (EPC) Global Association, EPCIS Association, and the New Jersey Technology Council, to mention a few. Mr. Sampson holds various board seats on for-profit companies, in addition to extensive charitable organization involvement. Additionally, Mr. Sampson is a lifetime member of the Chief Executive Officers Club, a professional group that he has been affiliated with for over 15 years.

KAMAL MUSTAFA: PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Mr. Mustafa joined the company in 2003. First as a corporate director on the board, and then six months later as the President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Mustafa was aggressively courted by the company's chairman, because of his very unique qualifications that include a great depth of experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, finance, software design and engineering.

Over the last four years, Mr. Mustafa has immersed himself in the pharmaceutical industry. This has culminated with him leading the business and product development teams which are comprised of systems designers and engineers, systems manufactures, software developers, software systems integrators, data warehouse developers and engineers. During this period, in meeting with manufacturers, packaging suppliers, law enforcement officials, standards committees, solutions providers and integrators, Mr. Mustafa has been classified as being the expert in the industry. Mr. Mustafa has also been pivotal in the creation of strategic partnerships and alliances, including the long term relationship with Catalent Pharma Solutions, which resulted in the co-development of SSI's systems in a real-world environment. His experience with e-pedigree, unit-level serialization, track and trace technologies and processes, as well as his knowledge of secure data vault design and capabilities, that extend far beyond the companies anti-counterfeiting solutions, make him highly sought after. Mr. Mustafa has been a requested speaker at a number of industry and regulatory conferences, inclusive of being invited as a technology solution presenter at the Nevada Board of Pharmacy, among others state boards.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Mustafa had over 30 years of experience in the investment banking industry.  During this period, he served as head of corporate finance/credit at Connecticut Bank and Trust; head of planning and forecasting for mid-cap companies (Forplan) at Citibank Investment Bank; head of corporate finance origination at Citibank Investment Bank; head of global mergers & acquisitions at Citibank Investment Bank; managing director of mergers & acquisitions and merchant banking at PaineWebber; member of the Commitment Committee and managing director of PaineWebber's joint venture with Young & Rubicam; managing director and executive vice president of KSP, a $1 billion private leveraged-buyout Kluge fund; founder and chairman of Bluestone Capital Partners and Trade.com; and chairman of Wildwood Capital LLC.

Mr. Mustafa possesses a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a master's degree in finance from University of Connecticut.

WILLIAM JEFFRIES: DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 

Mr. Jeffries is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, and has successfully served in key executive roles in a number of specialized technology companies over the past decade.  Most recently, he was the founder and chief executive officer of AcWire Technologies – a firm that designs and implements a suite of PDA survey products.  AcWire Technologies was a natural transition for Mr. Jeffries who previously served as the co-founder and president of technology for SmartRevenue, the leading provider of consumer insights and solutions for manufacturers and retailers.  He designed, architected and developed SmartRevenue.com's survey and reporting application, using ASP.NET, IIS, COM+, XML, and SQL Server 2000.  He converted the company's online survey engine into wireless (PocketPC) and voice recognition (VoiceXML) applications.

RICHARD SMITH: DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING 

Mr. Smith has focused his entire 26-year career in packaging line automation on creative, effective solutions to difficult packaging problems. In 1990 he co-founded Luciano Packaging Technologies where he held the position as Vice President of Controls and Operations. He has successfully managed the development of equipment from the prototype phase to the production phase for major pharmaceutical companies. He provides insight to the regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical industry and has expertise in the implementation of solid dose and liquid packaging line systems.  He was instrumental in the integration of Tamper Evident Packaging into J&J and other pharmaceutical companies. His team developed state of the art prototype and production equipment for the Disposable Contact Lens business that transformed the industry.  His most recent accomplishment was the successful development and integration of a revolutionary high-speed laser drilling technology for time-release tablets for Pfizer, which resulted in 100% increase in production; quality improvement and 50% labor reduction.

ADAM MUSTAFA: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Mr. Mustafa has been employed by SSI as its Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since October 2007.  Prior to that, Mr. Mustafa provided corporate and financial planning and analysis services to the Company from October 2004 to January 2006.  Previously, he performed business valuation and other financial advisory services for clients at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP in the Washington DC metro corridor.  Prior to that, Mr. Mustafa was the Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis for ECI Conference Call Services, LLC, a telecommunications services company with over $40 million of annual revenues, owned by Graham Sampson , the Company's Chairman.  Mr. Mustafa has an MBA from Georgetown University and a BA from Syracuse University.

BRIAN HASTINGS: CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

Mr. Hastings is a graduate of the University of Maryland's School of Engineering, and has extensive experience in software design, development and management.  As the Chief Technology officer of AcWire Technologies, he helped design and implement an advanced suite of data collection products ranging from wireless devices to desktop tools to an Internet portal.  Previously Mr.Hastings served as Chief Technology Officer of SmartRevenue, the leading provider of consumer insights and solutions. He has extensive software experience, having created mission critical software applications for the U.S. Navy, Thomson Financial, and SmartRevenue.

RON BARENBURG:  PATENT AND BARCODE TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT

Mr. Barenburg co-founded International Barcode Corporation (IBC) in 2000.  He has over six years experience working specifically with bar code technology, software, and its applications and is credited with introducing and selling the first RSS software to most of the major U.S. and EU pharmaceutical companies.  His influence in the pharmaceutical sector is the reason major Fortune 100 companies have bought and adopted Mr. Barenburg's bar code solutions and have brought products to market marked with Reduced Space Symbology bar codes.  He has been on two Reduced Space Symbology bar code committees with the Uniform Code Council.  Prior to co-founding IBC, he was the Director of Sales for SNX, a bar code software development company.  He has over 20 years of sales, technology and management experience.