Arts Way Manufacturing Co. Inc.

Carrie Majeski, age 33, is currently serving as our President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), and performs the duties of principal financial officer. Ms. Majeski was appointed President and CEO of the Company on October 18, 2007 following the retirement of our former President and CEO, E.W. Muelhausen. From July 2004 through October 18, 2007, Ms. Majeski served as our Chief Financial Officer. From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Majeski was responsible for all of the functions of a controller at Tyco Plastics of Fairmont, Minnesota.

J. WARD McCONNELL, JR., Executive Chairman of the Board, Director, Age 77. Mr. McConnell has been a private investor for more than nine years. Mr. McConnell was a director from 1996 to 2001 and returned and has served since February 2002. Our Executive Vice Chairman and director, Marc H. McConnell, is the son of Mr. McConnell. Mr. McConnell has been the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2001 and currently resides in Fort Myers, Florida.

DAVID R. CASTLE, Director, Age 58 . Mr. Castle is the retired Director of Operations Worldwide for Avery Weigh-Tronix. Mr. Castle serves as the Chairman of our Compensation and Stock Option Committee and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Castle has been a director since 2000 and currently resides in Ontario, Canada.

DOUGLAS McCLELLAN, Director, Age 58. Mr. McClellan currently serves as President of Filtration Unlimited of Akron, New York, where he has held various positions for over six years. He is a member of our Compensation and Stock Option Committee and Audit Committee. Mr. McClellan has been a director since 1987 and currently resides in Clarence, New York.

FRED W. KRAHMER, Director, Age 39. Mr. Krahmer has been a practicing attorney with Krahmer & Nielsen, PA, since 1997, specializing in agricultural, real estate and estate planning law. He is also active in managing his family's farming operations based in Martin County, Minnesota. Mr. Krahmer is a director of Profinium Financial, a banking institution based in southern Minnesota. He is also a member of our Compensation and Stock Option Committee and Audit Committee. Mr. Krahmer has been a director since 2006 and currently resides in Fairmont, Minnesota.

JAMES LYNCH, Director, Age 63. Mr. Lynch served as the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Rydell Chevrolet from 1989 through 1998. He was named President of Rydell Enterprises in 1999 and became Secretary-Treasurer of Rydell Development in 2001. He is an owner of automobile dealerships in the Midwest and West Coast. Mr. Lynch has been a director since 2006 and currently resides in Chatsworth, California.

MARC H. McCONNELL, Executive Vice Chairman of the Board, Director, Age 30. Mr. McConnell has served as President of Babcock Co., Inc., of Bath, New York since July 2001. He has also served as President of Bauer Corporation of Wooster, Ohio since 2004 and as a director of Mountain Aircraft Services of Kinston, North Carolina since 2003. He has served as a director of the American Ladder Institute since 2004 and was named president of the American Ladder Institute in 2006. Mr. McConnell is also vice president of Adamson Global Technology Corporation, of Chester, Virginia, a manufacturer of steel tanks, heat exchangers, and pressure vessels, a position he has held since 2005. Mr. McConnell was also named a director of the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association in October 2007. Mr. McConnell was appointed to the Board of Directors in July 2001 and has served as Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors since January of 2008. He is the son of our Executive Chairman and director, J. Ward McConnell, Jr., and currently resides in Greenville, North Carolina.

THOMAS E. BUFFAMANTE, Director, Age 56. Mr. Buffamante is a Certified Public Accountant and Director of Buffamante Whipple Buttafaro, P.C., where he has been a director and shareholder of the firm since 1981. Mr. Buffamante has been a director since 2003 and currently resides in Great Valley, New York.