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Geruson has led a storied career as a pioneer and top executive in the global technology sector over the past 25 years. His first post as CEO was at VoiceSignal, where he increased shareholder value over 10-fold in less than 4 years, and negotiated an exit valued above a third of a billion dollars. As CEO of Phoenix Technologies, Geruson achieved 20-25% year-over-year EBITDA growth for six consecutive years. As CEO and President of Lexmark, he led a Fortune 500 multibillion-dollar technology company with over 10,000 employees and customer accounts ranging over $100M across 170 countries in every industry sector from banking to retail to healthcare. Under his leadership, Lexmark saw device sales grow faster than during any stretch in the company's prior decade of operations, transforming the business from negative EBITDA and high debt to a positive EBITDA of hundreds of millions of dollars and healthy debt levels.

Geruson received his Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford University after serving as research faculty at Harvard Business School. He currently serves as Chair of NexOptic Technology Corp. and as General Partner and Managing Director of Fifth Floor Venture Partners.