West Marine Inc.

Mr. Eisenberg has served as a Director of West Marine since 1977. He also served West Marine in numerous senior executive positions from 1976 until 1994. From January 1995 to December 2000 Mr. Eisenberg served as a senior consultant to West Marine. Since December 2000 Mr. Eisenberg has been a part-time, on-call employee of West Marine, available for special projects. Mr. Eisenberg has served as CEO of Salz Leathers Inc., a leather manufacturing company, since December 2000. Mr. Eisenberg served as CEO of Greenhorn Creek Associates, a real estate and golf development company, from 1997-2000. Currently, Mr. Eisenberg is a consultant and advisor to a number of companies. He specializes in CEO training and professional management development. Mr. Eisenberg serves on the Board of Directors of LiveOps Inc, and is Chief Financial Officer and a Director at Pasatiempo Golf Club.

Ashlee Aldridge joined West Marine in 2006 as CIO. She now leads the Direct Sales organization where she serves as SVP, Direct Sales and CIO. In her current role, she is focused on strategically growing the Direct Sales business segment by engaging the Customer through the Internet and Call Center Channels, while delivering a relevant Information Technology plan focused on transformation and optimization. She is a veteran of the retail industry, and an active member in the National Retail Federation. She brings a unique combination of practical knowledge, strategic thinking, and business transformation experience to West Marine. Prior to joining West Marine, Ashlee served as the Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Zale Corporation where she translated the mission critical business strategies into actionable objectives, programs and deliverables. Prior to her role as CIO, Ashlee served in various positions including Vice President of Strategic Development at Zale, and Sr. Manager at Deloitte. In these areas of service, she worked closely with Executive Management to design strategic visions, three year business plans, and technical and operational improvements focusing on a healthy balance between driving growth strategies and delivering cost savings. Ashlee and her family love boating. They spend several weeks each summer on the lakes back in the South enjoying inland boating activities. Since moving to California, her family has expanded their boating interests and developed a passion for sailing. Now, they sail as often as possible, exploring Monterey Bay on either a 40’ Marconi Rig Sloop, or a 42’ Catalina. They look forward to broadening their sailing travels and exploring other coasts over the next several years.

Tom Moran joined West Marine as our Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President – Finance and Assistant Secretary in 2007. Tom brings to West Marine 20 years of experience and a demonstrated ability in strategic and financial planning, reporting, compliance and financial management. Tom joined West Marine from ARAMARK Corporation, where he served as the Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of ARAMARK's WearGuard-Crest division, a direct marketer of work apparel and uniforms. While there he led the Sarbanes-Oxley 404 documentation process, developed and implemented product-line reporting and analysis and implemented an Oracle financial reporting system. Tom's prior experiences include Limited Brands, Inc. where he directed the financial activities and strategic planning for the Victoria’s Secret Division, CarMax Auto Superstores and he started at Kraft General Foods. Tom shares the West Marine values, is very much a customer-focused leader and brings extensive practical experiences. His personal competence as a business analyst, broad thinker and strategist complement his financial disciplines, planning, reporting and compliance skills. Tom is an avid boater, and he and his wife enjoy California's year-round boating season, exploring the sights of the Monterey Bay area.

Bruce Edwards has been with West Marine since 1986. In Mr. Edwards' current position, he is responsible for the sales and operations of the 360+ stores in the chain. He started in the Catalog div...

Ron Japinga is a 20-year veteran of the retail industry who brings extensive merchandising experience and a strong teamwork ethic. Most recently, Ron has been with Kohl’s Department Stores for the past four years where he served as Vice President and Divisional Merchandise Manager. While with Kohl’s, his merchandising responsibilities and long-term strategic planning brought over $1 billion in apparel sales. Previously, Ron served for five years with DFS Group Limited, the world’s largest travel retailer. While famous for its airport stores, Ron’s focus as Vice President/GMM and Director of Stores & Visuals was the development of retail concept stores in entertainment retailing associated with Anaheim’s Downtown Disney. Ron also served for 14 years with Macy’s where his roles included VP/Divisional Merchandise Manager overseeing a buying team in a wide variety of departments. Ron looks forward to developing long-term merchandise strategies while maintaining the ever-present “customer first” philosophy which is a focus of West Marine. High on Ron’s priority list is delivering an exciting and compelling product assortment through working with the merchant team and vendors to create an unforgettable environment for the customer. Ron has been an avid boater since he was a kid with lots of fishing, waterskiing and basic pleasure boating. He enjoys taking his powerboat out on the weekends with his wife and children.

Larry Smith joined West Marine in 1999 as the Senior Vice President of Planning and Replenishment. Prior to joining West Marine, Mr. Smith served as the Divisional Vice President of Planning and Replenishment for Kmart Corporation from 1996 to 1999. He also served as the Director of Planning & Replenishment for Staples from 1995 to 1996 and the Director of Inventory Management for Kaybee Toy Stores from 1994 to 1995. Mr. Smith has published several articles and received RIS News Magazine's "Retail Pacesetter Award" in June of 2003, honoring the 20 leading retail technology executives. A lifelong boater, who grew up in community sailing programs, and one-design racing on prams, Flying Juniors, and 420s, Mr. Smith has continued an active interest in boating. He has campaigned Thistles, Flying Scots, and is currently racing a Shields in Monterey Bay. Mr. Smith serves on the Junior Sailing advisory committee and is a Director of Monterey Bay Yacht Club. He is also Treasurer of the Monterey Bay Youth Sailing Foundation, a non-profit active in promoting Youth Sailing in the community.

Pat Murphy joined West Marine in 1999 as the Senior Vice President of Logistics. He has vast experience working in the retail industry with a focus on logistics and distribution. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Murphy was Group Vice President of Logistics for Borders Group, Inc. He served as GM & President of Midwest Operating Division for the Southland Corp. from 1989 to 1992, as Director of Distribution for Wilson Foods from 1985 to 1989, and as General Manager for Levi Strauss & Company's distribution center from 1980 to 1985. Having been born and raised in the Midwest, Pat's boating experience has primarily been on inland lakes such as Lake of the Ozarks, Grand Lake, Lake Mead, etc. During vacations and nearly every summertime weekend the family could usually be found water skiing, tubing or just cruising. Now that Pat is spending more time near the ocean, he has become an avid crewmember on "Promotion" whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Barry Kelley is a 26-year veteran of the marine industry, having spent the last 19 years with West Marine. As an avid boater, Barry was able to take his passion for boating and transform it into a successful career. He joined West Marine in 1989 in Southern California as a Store Associate. He was soon called upon to support the company’s expansion on the east coast. He and his wife moved to South Florida where he took on the role as the first District Manager of the Southeast Region. He was soon promoted to Southeast Regional Vice President and under his management the region grew quickly from the original 5 stores to well over 100. By 2005, the Southeast Region had grown to the largest volume sales region with over 140 stores in 10 states. In addition, the Southeast region had the highest wholesale growth for 7 years running. Managing this incredible wholesale growth made Barry the ideal candidate when the position of Vice President Port Supply opened up. Barry was promoted to this role in December 2007. Barry is a life long boater and equally enjoys a good day sailing or one spent offshore fishing. He, his wife and three children regularly enjoy their family time together out on the water.

Bob Buckborough has been with West Marine since 1998 and currently supports the Northeast Region. In Mr. Buckborough’s current position, he is involved with all aspects of sales and operations for 110 stores from Maine to Inland Georgia. He began with West Marine as a Store Associate in the Great Lakes and has held multiple store positions. He then moved to Florida as a District Manager and then on to California as a Regional Manager. Bob grew up close to Narragansett Bay and has cruised in sailboats from Canada to Key West as well as Bermuda and the Bahamas. Currently he lives back near Narragansett Bay where he is able to enjoy cruising in New England waters again.

Chuck Hawley is a life-long sailor, having grown up on the California Coast. He has sailed over 40,000 miles on vessels ranging from ultralight "sleds" to single-handed sailboats to the maxi-catamaran PlayStation. Voyages of interest include two single-handed passages to Hawaii, three crewed transpacific races including a first-to-finish victory in 1983, and a World Record attempt on the west to east Transatlantic record on PlayStation, sailing with the late Steve Fossett. While enjoying fast passages, he understands the importance of having functional, easily-repaired electrical, water, engine, and fuel systems so that each voyage can be completed successfully without outside help. Chuck is a nationally known speaker on marine safety, and is one of five moderators of the US Sailing Safety at Sea Seminars for the last 18 years. He has done extensive research into crew overboard recovery, life raft design, anchor testing, and storm tactics, and has moderated seminars prior to the Newport-Bermuda, Transpac, and Pacific Cup Races. Chuck has served as Commodore of the Singlehanded Sailing Society in San Francisco (1980), the Santa Cruz Yacht Club (1992), and on the board of the Pacific Cup Yacht Club (2000). He also serves on the US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee and the American Boat and Yacht Council Technical Board. Chuck has worked for West Marine for 25 years, and is the former author of the West Advisor articles that appear in West Marine's catalogs and Internet site. He is Vice President of Product Information. He lives in Santa Cruz with his wife Susan and five daughters, and currently owns a Zodiac 21’ RIB and a 14’ MegaByte.

Erik Rimblas has been with West Marine since 1992 and currently supports the stores in the Southeast Region. In Mr. Rimblas' current position, he is responsible for all aspects of Sales and Operations for 111 stores in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma as well as stores in Puerto Rico. He started with West Marine in the Stores and has held every position available in Stores, most recently as a District Manager and previously as a General Manager and Store Manager. Mr. Rimblas has been actively involved in the training and development of Stores personnel at all levels for a number of years. Mr. Rimblas is an avid freshwater and saltwater angler. He most frequently fishes inshore on the flats in South Florida. He is on the fishing tournament committee of several prominent tournaments in South Florida and has actively participated in many boat shows and other industry events over the last 15 years. With so much experience in the Stores division, Mr. Rimblas is a strong advocate and supporter of our store Associates and our Customers in all aspects of West Marine. He is dedicated and focused on providing every Customer with the best possible Customer Experience through consistent attention on having great Associates at all levels in the stores and uses his enthusiastic communications skills, strong grasp of operations and vast knowledge of the business to support his teams and his stores.

Pam Fields joined West Marine in 1997 as its first General Counsel. She is responsible for managing West Marine's worldwide legal affairs in addition to serving as Secretary to its Board of Directors. A seasoned professional with over 25 year of experience, Pam's legal career started in the practice of real estate syndications, tax and corporate law with the law firm of Certilman, Haft, Lebow, Balin, Buckley & Kremer located in Manhattan. After relocating with her family to Los Angeles, California, her focus turned to Entertainment Law, representing several independent motion picture production and distribution companies. Then, in 1997, she joined West Marine and established its first in-house legal department, where she has led the company's legal affairs relating to mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, corporate governance, compliance, litigation, finance, securities, commercial transactions, and other legal matters. Pam earned a Bachelor's degree, graduating Magna Cum Laude, from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and then her Juris Doctorate, graduating with honors, from Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan. She is licensed in California and New York and is an active member of the National Retail Federation's General Counsel's Forum, the American Bar Association and the Association of Corporate Counsel. Growing up on the shores of Long Island, N.Y., Pam has enjoyed recreational boating and fishing since she was a kid and loves to go boating as often as possible on the "other" coast with her husband and two children.

Pat joined the West Marine team in 1996 as the Director of Domestic Transportation and was named Assistant Vice President of Transportation Services in 2004 after assuming additional responsibilities for the company's international transportation program. Pat has been accountable for developing a best-in-class transportation network for West Marine with year-over-year improvements in service and financial results. He has transformed how West Marine interacts with its carriers and vendors through state-of-the-art transportation management technology. Prior to joining West Marine, Pat was Manager of Corporate Transportation for Electrolux Major Appliances, North America Division. In his twelve years at Electrolux, Mr. Foley held many progressive positions on the company's logistics team. Patrick had responsibility overseeing transportation for eleven manufacturing locations and eight regional distribution centers. Pat was West Marine's first-ever recipient of the prestigious Walter Scott Leadership Award which is awarded annually to the West Marine associate who best demonstrates superior leadership cross-functionally within the organization. Mr. Foley was promoted to Vice President Logistics in 2008 and has full responsibility for West Marine's Distribution Centers located in Hollister, CA and Rock Hill, SC, along with West Marine's Global Transportation program. Each summer, Pat and his wife enjoy water sports at their family's cabin on Lake Millicoquin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Pat graduated from The Ohio State University in 1986. He currently serves on West Marine's Sustainability Advisory Board and on the Board of Trustees for The United Way of Santa Cruz County.

William W. Dudman, Secretary, Vice President-Operations, 42, joined our company in April 2004. For the five years immediately preceding his employment he had held various management positions within the marine industry, most recently with West Marine, Inc., our largest customer, from May 1999 to April 2004.

Randy Repass is founder of West Marine, Inc. and chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Repass graduated from Duke University with a BSEE in 1966 and began his career in engineering and marketing ...

Mr. Roy has served as a director of West Marine since 2001. Mr. Roy is an entrepreneur and business advisor to companies in the healthy lifestyle industry. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Roy served as President of Whole Foods Market, Inc., a natural food products retailer, and for 5 years prior to that served as its President of the West Coast Region. Mr. Roy also is a director of Avalon Natural Products, Traditional Medicinal, Inc., and Naked Juice. He is a strategic advisor to North Castle Partners, a private equity fund, and also is Chairman of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), a non-profit wilderness education school.

Randy Repass is founder of West Marine, Inc. and chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Repass graduated from Duke University with a BSEE in 1966 and began his career in engineering and marketing with Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1973, he founded Semiconductor Engineering Associates, specializing in programming of computer-controlled testers for complex integrated circuits. Earnings from this business provided the initial financing for West Marine. In 1968, Mr. Repass founded West Coast Ropes, later to be renamed West Marine, a mail order purveyor of quality three-strand rope. The first retail store was opened in Palo Alto, CA in 1975. Mr. Repass also has served as commodore of the Santa Cruz Yacht Club, as a director and President of Sail America, the US sailing industry association, and as a director of the National Marine Manufacturers Association. Mr. Repass' sailing background includes frostbite sailing, dinghy racing in FJ's and lasers, club racing, coastal cruising in New England, the Northwest and Mexico and several ocean races to Mexico and Hawaii. He has also cruised extensively with family in the Northwest aboard a traditional New England Lobster Yacht and in the South Pacific aboard a performance passage making sailboat. As Co-chair of Action Pajaro Valley he was active in collaborative planning for the area. For many years he has been and remains active in marine conservation for the benefit of the marine environment and fishers.

David E. McComas has served as our Chief Executive Officer since July 2001 and as Chairman since January 2004. From July 1998 to December 2004, Mr. McComas served as our President and from July 1998 to July 2001, he served as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining us in July 1998, Mr. McComas was Western Region President and Corporate Vice President, Circuit City Stores, Inc., and was responsible for 10 Western States and Hawaii since 1994. Prior to 1994, Mr. McComas was General Manager of Circuit City Stores, Inc. Mr. McComas has over 30 years of store management experience including positions with Montgomery Ward Holding Corporation and Sears, Roebuck & Co. Since 1996, Mr. McComas has served as Director of West Marine, Inc.