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Charles (Chuck) Ferry

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Ferry has over 35 years of military and private-sector leadership experience. Prior to joining Duos Technologies, He was the CEO for APR Energy from 2018 to 2020 and COO/President from 2016 to 2018 leading a global fast-track power company with P&L responsibility for $325 million in annual revenue, 800 employees and 17 globally dispersed power plants. Mr. Ferry was General Manager/VP at ARMA Global Corporation from 2010 to 2016, which he helped grow from 80 employees and $20 million in annual revenues to 1,200 employees and $200 million in annual revenues. Previously he was a Business Developer and Operations Manager with Lockheed-Martin. He served 26 years on active duty in the U.S. Army leading Infantry, Ranger, and Special Operations Units to include 48 months of combat in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In 1993, while second-in-command of a Rifle Company in the battle of Blackhawk Down in Somalia, he earned a Bronze Star Medal for Valor. In 2007, while commanding a Rifle Battalion, he earned a Silver Star Medal for valorous actions in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Ferry has an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in Political Science and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

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Doug Recker

President

Doug Recker is a renowned telecommunications industry veteran with over 30 years of experience successfully delivering multi-access Edge Data Center (“EDC”) and colocation services now leads the Duos Edge AI subsidiary’s initiatives to provide EDCs to remote districts, including schools and health facilities. Mr. Recker is responsible for managing, designing, implementing, and deploying EDC Infrastructure across the US for our client sites. He founded Edge Presence in 2017, which was sold to Ubiquity in 2023, and before that, he founded Colo5 Data Centers LLC, which was later acquired by Cologix, Inc. in 2014.

Throughout his career, he has achieved several accolades, including Northeast Florida’s Ultimate CEO Award by the Jacksonville Business Journal, and the owner of one of Florida’s fastest-growing companies and one of Inc. Magazine 500 fastest-growing companies nationwide, he was awarded the Best CEO award in 2013 by BizTech Innovations, and he was also listed in Jacksonville’s Business Journal Top 40 under 40 in 2010. Mr. Recker is also a widely recognized thought leader, speaking at key industry events where he shares his vision, industry knowledge, and overall market strategy. Before his success in the Data Center industry, Mr. Recker was a telecommunications expert at the beginning of the fiber/telecom industry, leading and supporting sales teams.

Mr. Recker served in the United States Marine Corps, where he learned the value of developing a strong team and leading those teams throughout his entire career.

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Adrian Goldfarb

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Goldfarb has more than 40 years of business experience in technology companies including over 15 years as a CFO for public companies. He served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company from April 2015 until November 15, 2022 following which he served as Strategic Advisor to the CEO before being re-appointed as CFO in May 2024 following the departure of his successor. Mr. Goldfarb has a long tenure with Duos. In 2012, he was appointed as President and CFO of Information Systems Associates, Inc., which merged with Duos Technologies, Inc in 2015 upon which he agreed to continue serving the merged company as CFO and Director. Mr. Goldfarb managed the company’s listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market in 2020. Prior to joining Duos, Mr. Goldfarb served as CFO for Ecosphere Technologies, overseeing revenue growth from $0 to $24 million and profitability. Mr. Goldfarb was also Managing Director of WSI Europe, a division of the Weather Channel from 1998 until 2002. From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Goldfarb served as interim-CFO for MOWIS GmbH, a Weather Technology Media start-up company which was successfully sold to a large European media group. Mr. Goldfarb also serves as a Director of GelStat Corp since 2008 before being appointed non-Executive Chairman in 2014. Mr. Goldfarb’s extensive business and financial experience includes 10-years at a subsidiary of Fujitsu where he served Director of Operations for a new software venture. Mr. Goldfarb started his formal career at IBM and was given responsibility for an account team focused on Latin America and Southeast Asia. He was awarded three “100% Clubs” for his contributions.

Mr. Goldfarb did his initial accounting training in London and graduated “cum laude” with a business degree specializing in Finance from Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Mr. Goldfarb also has more than 25 years’ experience in financial derivatives including model development for valuation of complex financial instruments and has served as a Consultant for small companies dealing with restructuring issues.

Mr. Goldfarb advises the Board and Senior Management on business development, public company financial matters and investor and public relations.

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Jeff Necciai

Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Necciai brings almost 30 years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering value-driven technology solutions across a wide range of industries. In addition to managing the company's product and solutions roadmap, he oversees multiple collaborative technology teams that develop the company's unique and value-focused solutions. Prior joining Duos, Jeff served as the Chief Technology Officer of NASCENT Technology, where he cultivated and led high-performing cross-functional product teams to develop and deliver comprehensive gate automation solutions to rail and maritime terminal customers. Jeff was responsible for the solution design and software architecture for many of the company's innovations, including an advanced OCR and imaging solution, proprietary point-to-point VoIP technology, an automated work queue management system, a line of integrated "smart" outdoor IP-based callboxes, and a comprehensive human-assisted security and surveillance platform. In 2001, Jeff co-founded and served as Lead Systems Architect for Solution Dynamics, which developed remote digital video surveillance products for institutional customers. Jeff is listed on several technology-based patents and has contributed articles for publications such as American Shipper, World Cargo News, and the Journal of Commerce. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.