JOHN WATKINS, JR. (Chairman of the Board of Directors) has more than 30 years of combined experience in Information Technology management and operations in both government and industry.
Since joining Fairchild as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mr. Watkins has presided over the successful implementation of PeopleSoft ERP systems for financials, distribution and manufacturing, i2 planning systems for manufacturing, and PeopleSoft customer relationship management systems. He was also responsible for Fairchild’s E-Business practice, where he successfully implemented E-sales, Order Management, web-based design tools, a customer sample application, and a corporate pricing engine.
Mr. Watkins received the 2004 and 2005 Top 50 Engineering Award, 2005 Who's Who Top Executives Award and the CTO of the Year award from CTO Magazine in 2004.
A retired General Officer of the U.S. Army, his last assignment at the Department of Defense was to form and lead the Defense System Organization, responsible for managing the world-wide DOD data and communications systems. Mr. Watkins entered the private sector in 1995, becoming Chief Information Officer of the $12 billion Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corporation. Under John globalization of the IT department significantly improved support on a world-wide basis while simultaneously reducing cost each year.
Mr. Watkins holds a B.S. in Engineering Technology from Tuskegee University, and an M.B.A. from New York Institute of Technology. John was selected to attend the Senior Management Program in Government at Harvard University, and the Senior Engineering Management Program at Stanford University.
Mr. Watkins is Chairman of the Board of Akoura Biometrics, Founding Partner of Rofren Manufacturing Company, and is a Founder and Board Member of Connecticut Bank & Trust.

Billa Bhandari (Founder, Chief Architect) has fifteen years experience building business oriented, secure, scaleable and mission-critical trading systems in the banking industry, including Chase, Credit Lyonnais, Putnam Investment and State Street Bank. Before Akoura, Billa founded Parallax Corporation to provide technology-consulting services to clients including GTE, Sun and HP. Billa’s background in Finance and Technology exploited the need for user oriented yet highly secure information solutions. Billa has strong recognition in the International Biometrics community and serves on the Technology Board of ID World, and Advisory Board of My Data Vault. Billa has appeared on many industry panels focused on deployment of Biometrics in the Enterprise and brings vision and business development skills to Akoura

Antoine LeBoyer (Outside Director) Antoine has more than 20 years of experience in IT organizations in various international positions.
Antoine started his professional career in IBM where he stayed over 12 years. At IBM France, Antoine held various positions in sales and marketing. At IBM Europe, he was running the distribution strategy for all of IBM businesses except PCs. Antoine was instrumental in initiatives to leverage the use of European's IT distributors to achieve various growth targets. He left IBM to join Candle Corporation where he started and ran the European indirect business. Antoine was then General Manager for Hyperchannel France, a B2B marketplace for the European IT distribution funded by General Electric Capital and Goldman Sachs. Subsequently, he worked as Senior Vice-President for Upaid Systems Limited, a provider of software for real-time billing and payment mobile services. Currently he is a Senior Vice-President for Baracoda, the leading producer of Bluetooth industrial devices which he has helped achieve record growth.
Antoine holds a diploma of engineer from Ecole Superieure d'Electricité in France as well as an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. Antoine has been involved in various advisory roles for small IT companies with leading solutions in emerging markets and is a frequent public speaker on this subject. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Akoura Biometrics, an emerging company in Information Security.

Reginald K. Brack is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Inc. having served as Chairman until June, 1997. With revenues of almost $7.0 billion, Time Inc. is the largest magazine publisher in the world and one of the largest book publishers. From 1962 until appointed CEO of magazines in 1985, Mr. Brack held a wide variety of executive positions including President of Time-Life and the international division. In 2001 he was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame and was selected as one of the nine most outstanding corporate directors in 2002 by Director’s Alert.
He is a trustee of the Center for International Understanding (CSIS) and EarthJustice. He is a director of the Business Council for International Understanding and The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (IPG) and Quebecor World Inc. (IQW). Mr. Brack is an advisory director of Abercrombie & Kent Destination Clubs and Conduit It.
Raised in Dallas, Texas, Mr. Brack received a B.S. degree from Washington and Lee University and a Doctor of Letters degree in 2002. Mr. Brack and his wife, Barbara, have three grown children, Elizabeth Flock, Reginald and Peter, and reside in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Northeast Harbor, Maine.