Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.

C. David Bowers is Executive Vice President of Nu Horizons Electronics and President of Nu Horizons Distribution Division. A 25-year industry veteran, Mr. Bowers joined Nu Horizons in 1998 as Vice President of Marketing, and was later promoted to Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Bowers studied marketing at Indiana University/Purdue University. Mr. Bowers has also held management positions with Pioneer Standard Electronics, Inmos Semiconductor, Avnet Electronics, and National Semiconductor. For the biographies of our other executive officers, please see Proposal 1 Election of Directors.

David Siegel (81 years old) has been a director since June 2000. For more than the past five years Mr. Siegel has been a Vice President and director of Great American Electronics, a distribution company, which he founded. Mr. Siegel is also a director of Micronetics Inc., a company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets wireless components and test equipment and Surge Components Inc., a supplier of electronic products and components. Mr. Siegel previously served on our Board of Directors from September 1991 to October 1996.

Herbert M. Gardner , 69, Vice President of the Company since 2001, was a director of Chase Packaging from 1996 to 1997 and rejoined the Board of Directors in 2001. Mr. Gardner is Executive Vice President of Barrett-Gardner Associates, Inc., a private merchant banking firm; Director of MKTG, Inc., a marketing and sales promotion company; Director of Nu Horizons Electronics Corp., an electronic component distributor; Chairman of the Board of Supreme Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of specialized truck bodies and shuttle buses; Director of TGC Industries, Inc., a geophysical services company; and Director of Rumson-Fair Haven Bank and Trust Company, a New Jersey state independent, commercial bank and trust company.

Martin Novick (71 years old) has been a director since September 24, 2003. Presently he is group Vice President of Sales at Audiovox Electronics Corporation, where he has served as Vice President for the past 35 years. He has been in the consumer electronics business for 45 years with expertise in both purchasing and marketing. He is President of Ren-Mar Enterprises Ltd., a private investment company located in Toronto, Canada. He is also a partner in Great American Realty, a private investment company.

"Steven J. Bilodeau served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SMSC from 1999 until October 2008. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board. Prior to SMSC, Mr. Bilodeau spent thirteen years with RVSI where he was, most recently, President of the Semiconductor Equipment Group. Mr. Bilodeau holds BS & MS engineering degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. "