Michael A Smith

Gerhard Cless is executive vice president, and has been in this position since 1998. Mr. Cless is a co-founder of Zebra and has served as a director since 1969. He served as secretary of Zebra from its formation until 2005, and as executive vice president for engineering and technology of Zebra from 1995 to 1998, after having served as senior vice president of engineering since 1969. Mr. Cless served as treasurer of Zebra until 1991. Since 1969, he has been active with Zebra where he has directed the development of numerous label printers and maintained worldwide technology/vendor relationships. Prior to founding Zebra, Mr. Cless was a research and development engineer at Teletype Corporation’s printer division. Mr. Cless received an MSME degree from Esslingen, Germany, and did graduate work at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The Cless Technology Center, Zebra’s 57,000 square foot product development and research facility, is named in honor of Mr. Cless.