Zee Hakimoglu, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Zee Hakimoglu joined us in December 2003 with more than 15 years of executive and senior-level, high-tech management experience. She served in a variety of executive business development, product marketing, and engineering roles including vice president of product line management for ClearOne from December 2003 to July 2004; vice president of product line management for Oplink Communications, a publicly traded developer of fiber optic subsystems and components from December 2001 to December 2002; president of OZ Optics USA, a manufacturer of fiber optic test equipment and components from August 2000 to November 2001; and various management positions including vice president of wireless engineering and wireless business unit vice president for Aydin Corp., a telecommunications equipment company, formerly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from May 1982 until it was acquired in September 1996. Her business unit at Aydin was the largest provider of digital microwave radios to the US Army, which used the radios in Desert Storm and a variety of NATO operations. She also was vice president of business development for Kaifa Technology from October 1998 to August 2000 and was instrumental in its acquisition by E-Tek Dynamics, then again acquired by JDS Uniphase. Through these acquisitions, she held the role of deputy general manager of the Kaifa business unit. Ms. Hakimoglu earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from California State College, Sonoma, and a master’s degree in physics from Drexel University.

Narsi Narayanan, Vice President of Finance
Narsi Narayanan joined us in May 2009 with over 15 years of professional experience in the areas of accounting, finance and taxes. Prior to joining ClearOne, he managed the SEC reporting, US GAAP accounting research, SOX compliance and other financial reporting functions from August 2007 through February 2009 at Solo Cup Company, a $1.8 billion publicly reporting international consumer products company. Prior to that, Mr. Narayanan managed the accounting and finance functions including SEC Reporting, SOX compliance and US GAAP accounting research from June 2004 through August 2007 at eCollege.com, a leading technology company serving private educational institutions which was also a $100 million publicly reporting company before being acquired by Pearson Education group. In addition to being a Chartered Accountant, Narayanan has extensive experience working in public accounting and in various senior finance positions in India with large public companies. He is a Certified Public Accountant with graduate degrees in accounting (M. Acc.) and business (MBA-Finance).

Tracy Bathurst, Chief Technology Officer
Tracy Bathurst joined us in September 1988 and held several positions with us until he was named Chief Technology Officer in August 2007. He was most recently ClearOne's Vice President of Product Line Management and has over 20 years experience in defining and developing communications-related products and technology. Mr. Bathurst has led the design and development of ClearOne's high performance audio and telecommunications equipment. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial technology from Southern Utah University.

Michael Braithwaite, Senior Vice President of Technology
Michael Braithwaite joined us in November 2009 through the acquisition of NetStreams, where he was the CTO and co-founder and has lead a distinguished twenty-year career as a visionary, disruptive innovator, and proven leader in the professional audio and consumer electronics industries. He has authored more than twenty U.S. and International patents. Before NetStreams, Michael was a product and market manager for Crestron Electronics where he worked on highly successful audio and video distribution products. He currently serves as one of the Chairman on the Consumer Electronics Association's R10 working group technical committees and is very active member in technology standard efforts.