Cray Inc.

Mamoru Nakano joined Cray in January of 2005 as President of Cray Japan. Previously, he held the position of general manager for HPC and Linux in the Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, for Hewlett Packard. Mr. Nakano started out 23 years ago in a research position with Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, and has held a series of increasingly responsible management positions in Japan with Digital Equipment Corporation and that firm's new parent, Compaq, before the latter company was acquired by Hewlett Packard. He has demonstrated notable leadership in growing market share for DEC, Compaq and Hewlett Packard and introducing the companies' products to new customers and new market segments. His management experience includes sales, marketing and service, all in the technical computing market in which Cray also competes.

Brian Henry joined Cray in May 2005 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He has 20 years of experience as a technology company chief financial officer. Henry joined Cray after having served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Onyx Software Corporation, a full suite customer relationship management company, which he joined in 2001. Mr. Henry previously served from 1999 to 2001 as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Lante Corporation, a public internet consulting company focused on e-markets and collaborative business models. From 1998 to 1999 he was chief operating officer, information management group, of Convergys Corporation, which he helped spin-off from Cincinnati Bell Inc., a diversified service company where he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer from 1993 to 1998. From 1983 to 1993 he was with Mentor Graphics Corporation in key financial management roles, serving as chief financial officer from 1986 to 1993. Mr. Henry received his B.S. degree from Portland State University and an M.B.A. at Harvard University where he was a Baker Scholar.

Steve Scott serves as Chief Technology Officer responsible for designing the integrated infrastructure that will drive Cray's next generation of supercomputer. Dr. Scott, who joined Cray in 1992, was formerly the chief architect of the Cray X1 scalable vector supercomputer and was instrumental in the design of the Cray/Sandia Red Storm supercomputer system. Dr. Scott holds fourteen US patents in the areas of interconnection networks, cache coherence, synchronization mechanisms, and scalable parallel architectures. He received his Ph.D. in computer architecture from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1992, where he was a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Hertz Foundation Fellow. Dr. Scott has served on numerous program committees and as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is a noted expert in high performance computer architecture and interconnection networks, and was the recipient of the 2005 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award.

Peg Williams serves as Senior Vice President, Research and Development responsible for the company's software and hardware engineering efforts for the current Cray X1E, Cray XT3 and Cray XD1 Supercomputers, as well as Cray's future research and development projects known as Cascade and Rainier. Dr. Williams, who has more than 20 years of experience in the HPC industry, joined Cray in May 2005 from IBM, where she was the Vice President of Database Technology. Prior to that, she managed IBM's HPC Software and AIX Development. Her extensive HPC experience also includes leading the user support team at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). Dr. Williams holds a B.S. in math and physics from Ursinus College, a Masters in math and a Ph.D. in applied math from Lehigh University.

Peg Williams serves as Senior Vice President, Research and Development responsible for the company's software and hardware engineering efforts for the current Cray X1E, Cray XT3 and Cray XD1 Supercomputers, as well as Cray's future research and development projects known as Cascade and Rainier. Dr. Williams, who has more than 20 years of experience in the HPC industry, joined Cray in May 2005 from IBM, where she was the Vice President of Database Technology. Prior to that, she managed IBM's HPC Software and AIX Development. Her extensive HPC experience also includes leading the user support team at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). Dr. Williams holds a B.S. in math and physics from Ursinus College, a Masters in math and a Ph.D. in applied math from Lehigh University.

Wayne Kugel serves as Vice President of Operations, responsible for manufacturing, supply chain, information technology and facilities. Mr. Kugel joined Cray in November 2001 and served as Program Director for the "Red Storm" program, a joint effort between Cray and Sandia National Laboratories, and its commercial successor, the Cray XT3 supercomputer. Prior to joining Cray, he led the worldwide Enterprise Customer Analytics group for IBM Business Intelligence, working with over 30 Fortune 500 companies to implement prediction algorithms and decision support tools to improve the economics between supply and demand. Prior to that, he worked for Carlson Marketing Group in a variety of Information Technology roles, implementing marketing automation and analysis applications. Mr. Kugel received a B.A. in Management Information Systems from University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

Andrew Wyatt joined Cray in September 2007 as Vice President for Asia-Pacific (not including Japan). His 30-year career in High Performance Computing (HPC) has included roles with Cray Research subsidiaries in Australia as Director, with SGI as Asia-Pacific Director for HPC Strategic Relationships, and with GEIS/Honeywell in Sales and Marketing. Mr. Wyatt has had extended residential postings across Asia-Pacific including India, China, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan during his HPC career. He has also had postings with the SAS Institute as the Australian Academic Program Director and with Ringier Trade Publishing (RTP) in Shanghai, China as Director of Conference and Events. He graduated from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in Civil Engineering.

Barry Bolding serves as Vice President of Scalable Systems, responsible for the product development, management, benchmarking and applications for Cray's supercomputer systems. Dr. Bolding originally joined Cray in 1992 and has since served key roles within Cray as well as with other HPC companies including SGI, Network Computing Services and IBM. Prior to his appointment as VP of Scalable Systems, Dr. Bolding served as Cray's Director of Product Marketing where he was instrumental in analyzing future products and developing long-term strategies. Over the years, Dr. Bolding has worked as a scientist, applications specialist, systems architect, pre-sales and product and market manger as well as with key customers in government, education, pharmaceutical and commercial markets. Bolding holds a B.S. in chemistry from University of California at Davis and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Stanford University.

Chuck Morreale serves as the Vice President of Customer Support and has worldwide responsibility for benchmarking, application and presales activities as well as field service and support. Prior to joining Cray in 2004, Morreale was a Sales Executive at IBM, responsible for worldwide HPC sales activities in the Life Sciences. Previously, Morreale spent over ten years with Cray Research, Inc. starting as a Programmer Analyst and eventually as an Account Manager. Chuck graduated from Trenton State College with a B.A. in Business Administration.

Jill Hopper joined Cray in January 2008 as Vice President of Government Programs and is responsible for managing the strategic relationship between Cray and the U.S. Federal Government. With more than 24 years of government affairs experience at the federal level, Ms. Hopper most recently served as the Vice President of Government Relations at SRA International. Prior to that, she served as Director of Government Relations at Battelle, and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs (1999-2001) for Secretary William S. Cohen. She also worked for the U.S. House of Representatives from 1982-1992 where she staffed several appropriations subcommittees, including the subcommittee on defense, during tenures with Congressman Bernard J. Dwyer and Joseph D. Early. Ms. Hopper has an MBA from the George Washington University where she received the Bryce Harlow Scholarship two years consecutively. She has a BA in economics and psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Larry Hoelzeman was appointed the position of Vice President of Sales, North America in 2006. He is a 21 year HPC industry veteran and has served in a variety of sales and presales roles at Cray Research, SGI, and Cray Inc. Mr. Hoelzeman holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Arkansas.

Linda Howitson serves as Vice President of Human Resources, responsible for worldwide human resources and organizational development. Howitson joined Cray in February 2006, bringing with her more than 20 years of experience in high technology environments for both corporate and field locations. Prior to joining Cray, she served as Vice President of Human Resources at Crane Electronics, a division of Crane Company, and Director of International Human Resources for Intermec Corporation. Howitson has done extensive work in Performance Management, Organizational Development and Cultural Change/Integration after mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Howitson holds a B.A. in Education and an M.A. in Human Resource Development from Western Michigan University.

Paul Ciernia serves as Vice President of Sales Operations and is responsible for the company's worldwide sales efforts. He has held various positions in Sales Administration and Sales Operations and was appointed Vice President in 2005. Mr. Ciernia began working for Cray Research in 1986 and has been continuously involved in Cray's high performance computing sales and marketing efforts. Prior to joining Cray Research, he was the Database Product Manager at Sperry and also held software support and development positions at Burroughs focused on database technology. Mr. Ciernia received a BA degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota and a Masters degree in management from the University of Southern California.

Ulla Thiel serves as Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Before joining Cray in February 2004, she was the director of HPC Sales EMEA in IBM. Prior to that assignment she held increasingly responsible management positions at IBM since joining that company in 1989, including roles in HPC marketing, sales, and sales support. Dr. Thiel received her doctorate in mathematics from Saarbruecken University (Germany), she also studied at the University of Edinburgh (UK), and has held various research positions at Universities in Heidelberg, Germany and Madrid, Spain.

Mr. Levine leads the global sales and professional services engineering organizations. He brings to Insignia over 25 years of executive experience in sales, marketing, strategic planning, and global business development from leading technology companies including Openwave, Isocore/Critical Path, and Brainware Partners, his consulting firm representing Cray, Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, Circata Corporation and Vuico.

Dan put his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington to use for Standard Oil in the mid 60's and earned an MBA from the University of Oregon before settling in and taking over for his father-in-law, Jack Kelly, in 1973. Dan's vision and guts transformed this local residential plumbing contractor to its current position as one of the largest specialty contractors in the country. In his role as chairman, Dan is committed to success through excellence and oversees JH Kelly's strategic direction. Dan's other passion is fish. He daydreams of fishing in Mexico and keeps busy watching over a commercial seiner and a custom seafood market and smoked salmon business located in Ridgefield, WA.

Mr. Jones joined the Cray Board in December 2004. He was a leading high technology equity research analyst for nearly twenty years. Until his retirement in 2004, he was a Senior Managing Director at Schwab SoundView Capital Markets. He joined SoundView in 2002 as a Senior Equity Research Analyst. From 1992 to 2002, Mr. Jones was a Managing Director and Senior Analyst at Salomon Brothers, Salomon Smith Barney and Citibank, where he covered the Server and Enterprise Hardware, Printer and Test and Measurement industries. From 1985 to 1992, he was a partner and senior analyst at Montgomery Securities. Prior to his career as an equity research analyst, Mr. Jones held various positions in the computer industry at Stratus Computer, Wang Laboratories and IBM. He is a director of Stratus Technologies Inc., a provider of fault tolerant computer servers, technologies and services. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Oregon.

Bob Pencek, with more than 20 years experience in the HPC industry, joined Cray in 2006 as Director of the Cray Intelligence business. Previously, he worked at SGI Federal as the Director of Strategic Relationships where he was responsible for the executive relationship with a major U.S. systems integrator. Prior to that, Mr. Pencek managed a team of more than 100 pres-sales technical engineers as the Director of North America Systems Engineering. He also served in a number of sales, technical and engineering roles at Silicon Graphics and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering and a M.S. in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Blake joined the Cray Board in June 2006. Mr. Blake is a 25-year veteran of the High Performance Computing industry. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Supercomputing, Inc., a software company that develops and sells an interactive parallel computing platform that extends existing desktop simulation tools for parallel computing on a spectrum of computing architectures. Before assuming this position in January 2007, he served as Senior Vice President, Product Development of Netezza Corporation, which develops, markets and sells data warehouse appliances. Prior to joining Netezza in 2002, he was with Compaq Computer Corporation for nine years, managing both Compaq's worldwide High Performance Technical Computing business and its software development group from 1996 to 2002, which included being responsible for compiler development for the Alpha processor; from 1993 to 1996 he was Compaq's director of software products development and long-range operating system strategy. Mr. Blake previously held various key engineering management positions with Digital Equipment Corporation from 1981 to 1993. Mr. Blake is a member of the Board of Directors of Etnus, Inc., a provider of debugging and analysis solutions for complex computer codes, and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery. He received his B.S. degree from Lowell Technological Institute.