Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 18, 2009

Gino M. Pereira – Technest Holdings, Inc. (tcnh)

GINO M. PEREIRA, Chief Executive Officer of Technest Holdings, Inc., has over 25 years of executive operational and financial experience with technology companies in the United States, Europe and the Far East. He has also helped to develop several technology startups as well as served in an executive capacity in a large multinational public company. He was Chief Financial Officer of Technest from February 14, 2005, and was appointed CEO in January 2008. In November 2001, Mr. Pereira became a Founder and Principal at Interim Management Solutions in Oxford, Connecticut. There, he acted as a consultant for several small public and emerging companies. Prior to November 2001, Mr. Pereira was Chief Operating Officer for CDC Technologies, a medical device company, Divisional Vice President of Finance for Williams Holdings Plc, a multinational public company, Group Financial Controller of Smallbone Plc and Chief Accounting Officer of Norgine Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Mr. Pereira is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (UK) and has an MBA, with a specialty in Finance, from the Manchester Business School in England. Profile
TWST: Let's begin with a brief historical sketch of the company and a picture of

the things you are doing at the present time.

Mr. Pereira: Technest Holdings is an advanced imaging company