Hurco Companies Inc.

Michael Doar was elected Chairman of our Board of Directors and our Chief Executive Officer in fiscal 2001. Previously, Mr. Doar served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Ingersoll Contract Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of Ingersoll International, an international engineering and machine tool systems business. Mr. Doar had held various management positions with Ingersoll International since 1989. Mr. Doar also serves as a director of Twin Disc, Incorporated, a manufacturer of marine and heavy duty off-highway power transmission equipment.

Charlie Rentschler is Vice President of Wall Street Access, a registered broker dealer in New York. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Director, Industrial Research, of Foresight Research Solutions, an independent research firm. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Rentschler was an independent business consultant providing service to the foundry industry. From 1985 to 2001, Mr. Rentschler served as president and CEO of The Hamilton Foundry & Machine Co. in Harrison, Ohio. He is also a director of Accuride Corporation, a manufacturer of commercial vehicle components located in Evansville, Indiana.

Janaki Sivanesan has been a practicing attorney with Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP for two years and a member of the bars of the State of New York and Georgia since 2007 and 1996, respectively. Ms. Sivanesan's practice involves a wide range of corporate transactions, from mergers and acquisitions to corporate finance, including public offerings of securities as well as private equity and venture capital transactions. Ms. Sivanesan also has experience in cross border transactions related to manufacturing and outsourcing, and is particularly knowledgeable with respect to business operations in India.

Michael P. Mazza is an intellectual property attorney, and the principal of his law firm, Michael P. Mazza, LLC. Previously, he was associated with Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, a Chicago intellectual property law firm.

Philip James is President of James Consulting Associates LLC, a firm which provides strategic advice to senior management of global manufacturing companies with special emphasis on China. Mr. James has conducted business extensively in China for twenty-five years. Previously, Mr. James served as Chief Executive Officer of Ingersoll Production Systems, a subsidiary of Dalian Machine Tool Group, a Chinese machine tool manufacturer.

Stephen H. Cooper has been a practicing attorney and member of the bar of the State of New York since December 1965. Until his retirement in December 2004, Mr. Cooper was for more than thirty years a partner in the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, based in New York, where he specialized in corporate finance and federal securities law. Since August 2002, he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School, Pace University Law School, and beginning in the academic year 2008-2009, Albany Law School, teaching courses on federal securities regulation and 3 corporate law. For the past twenty-five years, Mr. Cooper has been an active member of the senior leadership of the Committee on the Federal Regulation of Securities of the American Bar Association.