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Mr. Ufford is the co-founder of RF Code Inc., a market leader in active tag technology. He was instrumental in the development of the Spider RFID system, awarded Best of Show across all categories by PC Week Magazine at COMDEX, Las Vegas, Nevada in the fall of 1999.

Prior to founding RF Code, Mr. Ufford directed the nationwide Mobile Computing practice for KPMG. Mr. Ufford's 20 years of experience in technology development and management consulting include technology reengineering positions with Apple Computer, Inc., Telepad Corporation, and Arthur D. Little. During his tenure at Apple, Mr. Ufford was a pioneer in the application of personal digital technologies (PDA) founding Project ProMED, an internationally acclaimed project implementing the first application of PDA technologies in health care. Mr. Ufford founded the systems integration division for TelePad, growing the practice from one individual to a highly successful enterprise including a venerable national sales support project with the Principal Financial Group.

A graduate of West Point, Mr. Ufford holds advanced degrees in Computer Science and Systems Management.

About RF Code Inc.

RF Code, Inc., founded in 1997, designs, develops and manufactures high-performance, low cost RTLS (Real-Time Locating Systems) for long-range local wireless data communications that accurately manage and track physical assets, information and personnel. RF Code offers complete systems comprised of RF (Radio Frequency) tags, readers, antennas and software. Its Spider active RFID system was awarded Best of Show across all categories by PC Week Magazine at COMDEX, Las Vegas, Nevada in the fall of 1999. RF Code offers two active tag systems: Spider and Mantis.

The MANTIS real time locating system is the next generation of RF based tags, readers, handheld devices and software developed by RF Code. Designed for asset and personnel location and tracking, this family of products combines all of the low cost, high tag density benefits of a passive RFID system with positioning capabilities of a sophisticated RTLS system in a unique offering that installs easily in either a wired or wireless LAN configuration. It is ideal for application in the security, healthcare, containerized cargo, supply chain logistics, manufacturing execution and warehouse management industries. Of particular note is the current participation in two Operation Safe Commerce pilots which demonstrate RF Code's capability for container tracking, container tamper monitoring, sensor monitoring including radiation sensors, and wide area satellite/cellular uplink from integration of local and wide-area monitoring systems.

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