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Changes to Board of Directors
Changes to Board of Directors.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 6111X Seeing Machines Limited 15 January 2014 \n \n\n \nSeeing Machines Limited\n(\"Seeing Machines\" or the \"Company\")\n \nChanges to Board of Directors\n \nSeeing Machines Limited (AIM: SEE), the AIM-listed technology company with a focus on computer vision based operator monitoring and intervention technology and services, announces the following changes to its Board of Directors, all to take effect on 15 January 2014. \n \nAfter serving on the Board of Seeing Machines Limited for over 13 years, Dr Alex Zelinsky will retire from his position as a Non-executive Director. Dr Zelinsky is the current Chief Defence Scientist of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the Chief Executive of Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation. Due to the increasingly high demands of these roles, Alex has advised the Company that he has decided it is appropriate to focus his energies on his current full-time roles. Dr Zelinsky was one of the founders of Seeing Machines and is recognised widely for his leading expertise in computer vision technologies. \n \nThe Company is pleased to announce that Dr Rudolph Edward (Rudy) Burger, 55, will join the Board as a Non-executive Director. Over the past twenty-five years, he has founded five digital media technology companies in the US, run a European public company, and served as a senior executive for two global 500 companies. He is widely recognised as an effective, dynamic leader with a proven track record in management, strategic planning, business development, and M&A. Dr Burger is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Woodside Capital Partners, an investment bank headquartered in Palo Alto, California. He also serves as a Board Member of Bango PLC (AIM: BGO) and served as a Board Member of ServicePower Technologies Plc (AIM: SVR) until 2012. Rudy has a BSc and MSc from Yale University and a PhD from Cambridge University. \n \nThe Company is also pleased to announce the appointment of James David Walker, 44, to the Board as CFO. James joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer in June 2013. His contributions since then have been substantial, not the least of which is his leading role, with the CEO, in successfully driving and concluding the Company's recent Placing. James is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Ac...