Alien Technology

George W. Everhart joined Alien in January 2007. Mr. Everhart has over 25 years of executive leadership experience with specific expertise in leading high growth phases of industry leading technology companies. Everhart has held CEO and sales and marketing executive positions with both small startup companies in emerging markets, and large multinational companies, experiencing a rapid pace of growth. He has extensive experience in global markets as well as the domestic U.S. market. Everhart recently held CEO positions with early stage startup companies, SealedMedia and Onesecure, where he led successful company funding and expansion and established both companies as recognized leaders in their markets. Previously, Everhart was Sr.VP, Worldwide Sales & Service for 3COM Corporation, managing the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) business activities as well as the 1,000 person global service organization. Prior, Everhart was President & CEO, Fujitsu PC Corporation, where he led the company’s market entry and rapid growth in the notebook PC business. Everhart also held a series of executive leadership positions with Apple Computer during the company’s fast growth years, 1987-1996, including VP US Sales, VP & GM PC Business Division, and VP Business & Government Sales. Everhart’s early career included marketing, sales, and business management positions with The Braegen Corporation and Memorex Corporation. Mr. Everhart has been active in industry, government, and education associations as well holding both board and advisory positions. He was a member of the “Highway One Committee” to assist in the automation of Congress. He currently is a member of the Board of Fellows at Santa Clara University. Mr. Everhart holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology, and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University.

Charles G. Alvarez has served as our vice president of finance and chief financial officer since June 2008. Prior to joining us, Mr. Alvarez was executive vice president, finance, and chief financial officer for 2Wire, a provider of broadband solutions for the residential market, from April 2007 to December 2007. From June 1998 to July 2005, Mr. Alvarez was senior vice president, finance and administration, and chief financial officer for Verisity, Ltd., a provider of verification process automation solutions. From March 1997 to May 1998, Mr. Alvarez was vice president, finance and administration, and chief financial officer for Alliance Semiconductor, a semiconductor company. He also held a series of executive leadership positions with LSI Logic and General Electric Company. Mr. Alvarez holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in business and economics from San Francisco State University , and graduated from the Executive Financial Management Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Executive Management Program at the UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Stephen Smith founded Alien Technology in December 1994 and served as the company's CEO until early 1997. He served as a director and consultant to the company through 2004 and recently returned to his position as chief technology officer. As CTO, Dr. Smith leads Alien's advanced engineering and R&D efforts. Dr. Smith is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, currently on leave. He is the author of more than 85 refereed technical papers, and holds 15 issued patents. A recognized pioneer in RFID technologies, Dr. Smith is the inventor of the patented Fluidic Self Assembly process that is the basis of Alien's high volume tag manufacturing process. He also invented the Q protocol and was the primary driver of many other technical innovations that rest at the core of EPC Global's Generation 2 UHF specification. Dr. Smith was a Hertz fellow, and recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator award. He received his PhD, MS and BS degrees all in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology.

David Aaron joined Alien Technology in 2003 as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. He is responsible for all legal aspects of the company. Prior to joining Alien Technology, Mr. Aaron was Senior Counsel for Sun Microsystems, providing legal support for several product groups including the Networking and Security, Telecommunications Software and Server Appliance (formerly Cobalt Networks) business units. Before its being successfully acquired by Sun Microsystems for $2 billion stock-for-stock transaction, Mr. Aaron was the sole in-house counsel for Cobalt Networks, a Nasdaq traded manufacturer of Linux based server appliances and data storage devices. Mr. Aaron was also Associate Corporate Counsel at transportation provider Emery Worldwide, a subsidiary of CNF Inc., and spent several years in private practice. Mr. Aaron received his Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce, with an emphasis in Finance, from Santa Clara University.

Dr. Natalino Camilleri is responsible for overseeing integrated circuit development programs at Alien Technology. He joined Alien in October 2005 and brings over 20 years of experience in the development and creation of RF systems and RF/mixed-mode integrated circuits. Prior to Alien, Dr. Camilleri held several executive and engineering management positions in the wireless semiconductor sector. He was a Director of Engineering at MicroLinear, VP of RF Engineering at Pacific Consultants, President of the RF subsidiary for DSPG, Radio Product Line Manager at Advanced Micro Devices, and the Silicon RF Technology Manager at Motorola. During his career he was able to take early product ideas and develop award-winning products, such as a chip set for Spread Spectrum Cordless Phones, Wireless LANs and GSM phones. In the technology sector he developed leading edge circuits for new technologies such as SiGe, BiCMOS, LDMOS, and CMOS. He was instrumental in developing the LDMOS discrete and IC technology for Motorola. Earlier in his career, Dr. Camilleri excelled as an individual contributor at Motorola, HP-Avantek and Texas Instruments and published more than 50 papers on RF design and technology. Dr. Camilleri is active within IEEE and is one of the key organizers for the RFIC Symposium. Dr. Camilleri received his BSEE from the University of Malta and his MSEE and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Patrick Ervin leads the Alien Technology sales team for North and South America, and Europe, including all direct and channel related sales efforts. He joined Alien in 2005 as VP of Business Development for the Retail and CPG industries, and assumed responsibility for Sales in 2006. Mr. Ervin is a Retail industry expert, with 25+ years experience in sales, marketing, and product management roles focused on delivering technology solutions to large retail chains, including senior leadership roles at Retalix, IBM, and Lyceum Interactive. At Retalix, as Executive VP of Sales and Marketing, He was instrumental in driving year to year revenue growth of more than 30% between 2003 and 2005. At IBM, he excelled in various leadership positions in sales, channels, and product management between 1986 and 2001.

Prior to his retirement, Duane Zitzner was Executive Vice President of the Personal Systems Group, HP, leading the organization responsible for the development and manufacturing of HP's business and consumer clients which include desktop and notebook PCs, handheld products, personal storage appliances, as well as workstations. In addition, he drove the company's combined commercial and enterprise channel partners' team, managing HP's close relationships with its distributors and resellers. His organization had co-responsibility for the Digital Entertainment initiative within HP's consumer business. Previously, Zitzner served as president of HP's Computing Systems organization with the responsibility for computer products and enterprise systems. In that role, he helped elevate HP's enterprise solutions with the introduction of the Superdome high-end server. Zitzner was appointed an HP Vice President by the HP Board of Directors in 1996 and held that position until his retirement. He is a retired officer of Hewlett-Packard Company. Zitzner joined HP in 1989 as a manager in the Roseville Networks Division in California. Before joining HP, Zitzner held various management and technical jobs in software and architecture at IBM (International Business Machines). Previous to that he was a programmer at Univac. Zitzner was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and did graduate studies in computer science at the University of Minnesota. Zitzner serves on the boards of Entone and Firetide, is an advisor to Datacatch, and is a business advisor to the National ICT of Australia.

Advanced Equities Financial Corp. (AEI Chairman and Co-founder) Mr. Daubenspeck has had an eventful 22-year career in the securities industry. He was the architect behind three of the largest retail brokerage businesses in Chicago during his tenure at Lehman Bros., Oppenheimer and Bear Stearns. In the mid-1990's he co-founded Madison Securities, one of the first firms to specialize in technology private placements. In 1999 Mr. Daubenspeck founded Advanced Equities, Inc (AEI). He served as Chairman and CEO from 1999 until 2003, when he assumed the role of Executive Chairman. Among his numerous responsibilities for the overall operation and strategy of the firm, he serves as the head of investment banking and oversees the company's many important VC relationships. He also sits on the Board of Directors for several of AEI's portfolio companies, including Alien Technologies, Motricity, and Metric Stream. In addition, Mr. Daubenspeck is a partner or manager of numerous LLC's, managing over one billion dollars of investments in technology companies. In his spare time, Keith is an avid Chicago sports fan and golfing enthusiast, and is a member of the renowned Medinah Country Club. Among his many outside interests, he is a serious student of history with a special knowledge of and affinity for the Civil War Era.