Richard J. Gelinas

Chief Financial Officer

Rich is the Company’s CFO and has over 45 years of professional accounting, tax and management consulting experience in both industry and public accounting firms. His accounting experience includes Big 8 audits as well as proprietary startup business reporting, budgeting and forecasting. His tax experience encompasses both domestic and international businesses as well as corporate and pass-through entities. Finally his consulting experience includes organizational effectiveness, systems development, and mergers. He started his career as an auditor and tax professional for Deloitte & Touche after which he entered private industry with Aventis where he gained the bulk of his consulting experience. Rich formed his own accounting and consulting firm in 1991 and counted Fi-Tek, LLC, as one of his clients before joining the company in 2003. Rich is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, with an MBA in Finance and a BS in Accounting, he is also a CPA licensed in NJ and PA. Rich also serves on the Board of Fi-Tek and on the Board and Audit Committee of First State Trust Company (an affiliate of the Company).