Medical Action Industries Inc.

Paul D. Meringolo, a director and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since October 1997, has been employed by the Company for more than the past twenty years in various executive positions. He also serves the Company as President (since November 1992), and previously held the position of Vice President of Operations from March 1989 to October 1991 and Senior Vice President (Chief Operating Officer) from October 1991 to November 1992.

Mr. Charles L. Kelly, Jr. was appointed the Company’s Chief Financial Officer in April 2008 and has 25 years of finance and public accounting experience. Prior to joining Medical Action, Mr. Kelly was employed by Chem RX Corporation, an institutional pharmacy serving long-term care facilities, serving as Chief Financial Officer from August 2006 to March 2008. Prior to his position at Chem RX, Mr. Kelly was employed by Spotless Group Ltd., an international provider of industrial and governmental support services and provider of injection molded products and related services to U.S. and European based retailers, serving as Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations (Retailer Services Division) from November 2003 to June 2006 and as Global Vice President of Finance and Administration (Retailer Services Division) from April 1995 through June 2006. Mr. Kelly also worked for several years in the audit department of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Kelly holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from State University of New York, Albany and is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr. Eric Liu, has been employed by the Company for more than the past ten years in various positions relating to the international procurement of raw materials and the manufacture of certain of the Company’s products. Mr. Liu was appointed Vice President of International Operations and Global Development in May 2005. For more than the five years prior thereto Mr. Liu was Vice President of International Operations. Mr. Liu received a Bachelor of Science degree from The National Taiwan Marine University and a Master of Science degree in Transportation Management from the State University of New York.

Mr. Manuel B. Losada, has been an executive officer of the Company since August 2004 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. For the year prior thereto, Mr. Losada was Senior Vice President – Chief Sales Officer of B. Braun Medical U.S.A., a global organization offering products in IV therapy, pain control, vascular interventional, dialysis and nutrition. For the four years prior thereto, Mr. Losada was Vice President – Corporate Business Management for Henry Schein, Inc., a distributor of healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners in the North America and European markets.

Mr. William W. Burke, 50 years of age, has served as a director since 2004 and as chairman of the audit committee since 2005. He currently serves as President of Emergent Technologies, Inc., a life sciences and medical technology investment and management company. From August 2004 to November 2007, he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of ReAble Therapeutics, Inc., a diversified orthopedic device company. ReAble was sold to Blackstone Capital Partners in a going private transaction in 2006 and merged with DJO Incorporated in late 2007. Subsequent to the completion of the merger with DJO, Mr. Burke served as a consultant to Blackstone/DJO. From March 2001 to August 2004, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Cholestech Corporation, a publicly traded medical diagnostic products company. For more than fifteen years prior thereto, Mr. Burke was a senior investment banker with firms such as Bear, Stearns & Co., Everen Securities, Inc., and Principal Financial Securities, Inc., where he provided financing and advisory services to companies in healthcare and other industry sectors. He also serves as a member of the board and chairman of the audit committee of IDev Technologies, Inc., a developer of next generation medical device products for endovascular interventional use. He holds a Bachelors of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Pennsylvania s Wharton Graduate Business School.

Mr. Bernard Wengrover, a director of the Company since October 1990, has been a certified public accountant in the State of New York for more than the past forty years. Mr. Wengrover was the Company's independent auditor from 1977 until March 31, 1989.

Mr. Kenneth Newsome, a director of the Company since August 2006, has been President and CEO of AMF Automation Technologies, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of wholesale bread and baking equipment since 1996. With approximately 300 employees worldwide, AMF has completed seven acquisitions to date. For more than the four years prior thereto, Mr. Newsome held various executive positions, including Chief Operating Officer of MedSurg Industries, which was acquired by Isolyser Healthcare, which is now known as Microtek Medical Inc., a publicly traded medical products company. Mr. Newsome holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Finance from the University of Virginia – McIntire School of Commerce and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Virginia – Darden School of Graduate Business Administration.

Dr. Philip F. Corso, a director of the Company since March 1984, has been associated with the Yale University School of Medicine for more than the past ten years and is presently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery Emeritus. In addition, Dr. Corso is Senior Attending and Emeritus Chief of Plastic Surgery at Bridgeport and Norwalk Hospitals in Connecticut. Dr. Corso has also published numerous articles in professional journals on plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is a member of numerous national and international plastic surgery societies.