Kitty Hawk Inc.

Bryant R. Riley is both founder and Chairman of B. Riley & Co., Inc. B. Riley & Co. is a Southern California based brokerage firm providing research and trading ideas primarily to institutional investors. Founded in 1997, B. Riley & Co. also has offices in San Francisco and New York. Mr. Riley is also the founder and Chairman of Riley Investment Management, LLC, an investment adviser which provides investment management services. He also serves on the board of directors of Aldila, Inc. and Celeritek, Inc., each a Nasdaq listed company. Prior to 1997, Mr. Riley held a variety of positions in the brokerage industry, primarily as an Institutional Salesman and Trader. From October 1993-January 1997 he was a co-head of Equity at Dabney-Resnick, Inc., a Los Angeles based brokerage firm. From 1991-1993 he was a co-founder of Huberman-Riley, a Texas based brokerage firm. Mr. Riley graduated from Lehigh University in 1989 with a B.S. in finance.

Founder, Joe Ruffolo, has over 35 years of executive level experience in international, franchise, finance, production, transportation and government arenas. Joe is currently a Founding Director of Tower Bank. In addition to Tower Bank, Joe also serves on the Board of Directors of Steel Dynamics, Kitty Hawk, Inc., Beltmenn Transportation Group, Parkview Health Corp. and DeKalb Plastics. Joe served as the president and CEO of North American Van Lines, Fort Wayne, Indiana from 1988 through 1993. He has also held executive positions at PepsiCo, Squibb Corporation, and Reynolds Aluminum. In 1994 Joe served as a consulting executive selected to assist Russia in efforts to privatize government owned industries. He has been a faculty member of the Graduate Business Program at Indiana/Purdue University in Fort Wayne. Joe has held many community leadership positions including the Chairmanship of the Fort Wayne Park Board. Joe is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.