Brian K. Barker has served as an Acme United director since 2019 and serves on the Audit Committee. He was a founder of AntelopeAI, LLC, an artificial intelligence and machine learning start-up, and served as its CEO from December 2018 until his retirement in 2022. He was a founder, director and CEO of NorthBay Solutions, LLC, a big data and analytics company, from 2010 to 2018 and continues to serve as a director. Since January 2024 he has served on the Board of Directors of Zeptive, a provider of vape detection and air quality monitoring technology. He was General Manager of the xDoc business unit at Document Sciences Corporation (2007-2010, through its 2008 acquisition by EMC Corporation), CEO of Cambridge Technology Vision, LLC (1997-2001) and President of ClearSpring Technologies, Inc. (1989-1992). He is co-inventor of Acquisition Trustee, which Intralinks Holdings, Inc. acquired for its secure document-sharing platform.