Electroglas Inc.

Thomas Rohrs was appointed as a Director of the Company in December 2004. He became Chairman of the Board and CEO in April 2006 and in February 2009 he became Executive Chairman of the Board. Mr. Rohrs presently serves on the board of Magna Design Automation, Inc., Ultraclean Technologies, and several private companies. In addition, he is an adviser and consultant to a number of companies both public and private. Mr. Rohrs spent five years with Applied Materials Inc., most recently as Senior Vice President, Global Operations, and was also a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Prior to that, he held executive positions with Silicon Graphics, MIPS Computer Systems and Hewlett-Packard Company’s Personal Computer Group. Mr. Rohrs holds a masters degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Notre Dame Unitversity.

Thomas E. Brunton was appointed Vice President–finance, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of Electroglas, Inc. in November 2000. In July 2008, he was named Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Sectretary of Electroglas. Prior to joining the Company, Brunton was chief financial officer of Centigram Communications from March 1998 to July 2000. He joined Centigram in March 1991 as controller and also served as Treasurer. Prior to his post at Centigram, he had financial management responsibilities at 3Com, Sun Microsystems and IBM/Rolm. Brunton holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of California at Los Angeles and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Loyola University.

Wes D. Highfill joined Electroglas as Director of North American Sales in September of 2003. In July of 2004, he was named Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Service. In March of 2005 he became an officer of the company. In October 2006, Mr. Highfill was named Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. Mr. Highfill served as Director of Asia Pacific Sales for Yield Dynamics, Inc from 2002 to 2003, and Sales Manager from 2001 to 2002. Prior to his service at Yield Dynamics, he was a Global account manager and sales manager for Tokyo Electron America from 1996 to 2001. From 1988 through 1996 Mr. Highfill held various positions in Engineering and Product Marketing for KLA Instruments. He comes to Electroglas with over 20 years experience in the wafer test industry.

John F. Osborne has been a director of the Company since May 2002 and became lead director in June 2005. Mr. Osborne is up for re-election as a Class III director this year.  Since January 1998 Mr. Osborne has been President of Competitive Customer Support, an advisor to companies that manufacture integrated circuits or supply materials, equipment and services to the microelectronics industry.  Prior to forming Competitive Customer Support, Mr. Osborne was a member of the executive staff of Lam Research (“Lam”), a semiconductor equipment company.  Mr. Osborne joined Lam in 1988 and held the positions of Vice President of Strategic Development, Vice President of Quality and Vice President of Customer Support. Prior to joining Lam, Mr. Osborne held management positions at both Motorola, Inc., an embedded communications computing company, and Royal Philips Electronics, a consumer electronics company, from 1967 to 1985.  Mr. Osborne is also a member of the Board of Directors of Amkor Technology, Inc., a supplier of semiconductor offshore assembly and test services.  Mr. Osborne earned his degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines.  

Mel Friedman has been a director of the Company since May 1999.  Mr. Friedman will continue to serve as a Class I director until the Annual Meeting in 2009.  In 2002, Friedman retired from Sun Microsystems, Inc. (“Sun”), a provider of network computing products and services, where his most recent position was that of Senior Vice President, Customer Advocacy.  Since 2002, Mr. Friedman has acted as a consultant for Sun and other high technology companies.  From March 1998 through July 2000, he was President, Microelectronics at Sun.  Previously, Mr. Friedman was Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Vice President of Supply Management and Vice President, West Coast Operations.  Mr. Friedman joined Sun in 1989.  From 1985 through 1989, he was Vice President, Worldwide Operations and Customer Service at Prime Computer, a mini-computer company.  Prior to that, Mr. Friedman held executive positions at Apollo Computer, a workstation manufacturer, and Polaroid Corporation, a photographic company.  Mr. Friedman also co-founded Tabor Corporation, a micro-floppy disc drive company.  Mr. Friedman holds a BSME with honors from the City College of New York and conducted graduate work in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management at MIT.  Mr. Friedman currently serves on the Board of Directors of Volterra Semiconductor Corporation, which produces power management semiconductors for high technology.