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John E. Breyer

President and Chief Executive Officer

MI Technologies

(678) 475-8301

John E. Breyer is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of MI Technologies. He was named to the posts in 1997 after the Company was formed by acquiring the assets of Scientific-Atlanta Inc.’s microwave instrumentation business. John has been associated with this particular business for the past fourteen years.

John’s management career includes many years of service with The General Electric Company and Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. At the General Electric Company, he held a variety of technical and managerial positions ranging from systems engineering, program management and general management. He served as General Manager, Surface Ship Anti-Submarine Warfare programs from 1985 until 1987 when he was named General Manager of GE’s Undersea Systems Department operating at $700M per year. John joined the staff of Scientific-Atlanta in 1989 and served as Senior Vice President and President of the Company’s Instrumentation businesses.

John is active in a number of industry and community service organizations. He presently serves as a Trustee for Syracuse University and, additionally, serves on the University’s Executive Advisory Board for the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He is a member of the Business Owners Council with Grant Thornton LLP. In the past, John served on the National Board of Directors of the American Electronics Association (AeA) and in various positions in the Southeast Council of AeA. He also held national positions in the Electronic Industries Association, Government Division.

John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and has taken numerous graduate courses at Cornell University and Syracuse University. He is also a graduate of the General Electric Company’s Advanced Engineering and General Management Programs. He has published a number of articles and technical papers in the Acoustical Society Journal and other journals and magazines and has taught short courses on applications of signal and data processing when used with sensor technology and communications.