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CORPORATE OFFICERS & EXECUTIVES

Clay Johnson
CEO, Board Member
Clay Johnson has more than 25 years of experience in semiconductors and development tools. He spent more than sixteen years at Xilinx in a variety of senior management positions. His last position was VP / GM of the General Products Division. Mr. Johnson joined CPU Technology in 2008.

Jim Ball
Senior Vice President, Sales
Jim Ball joined CPU Tech in January 2009 with over 29 years of semiconductor sales experience. Most recently, Jim spent 18 years with Xilinx in a variety of Sales management roles, the latest of which was V.P. of Sales for Strategic Accounts. Jim is responsible for all customer facing Sales activities and infrastructure.

Stephen Gillis
Vice President, Corporate Services
Stephen Gillis joined CPU Tech in November, 2001, bringing over 20 years experience in all aspects of Human Resources. Prior to CPU Tech, he served as Senior Vice President of HR for DIVA Systems Corporation. Previously, Mr. Gillis held executive level positions at NetManage, and Weitek Corporation.

Brad Dyer
Vice President, Operations
Prior to joining CPU Tech, Brad Dyer held management positions at Alloptic, DIVA Systems and Lockheed Martin Corporation. He has more than twenty-three years of system development and technical program management experience. Mr. Dyer holds an M.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.

Chris Doerpinghaus
Vice President, Finance and Administration
Chris Doerpinghaus has more than 20 years of experience in financial management at both private and public companies. Prior to joining CPU Tech in 2004, Doerpinghaus held management positions with Metro-Optix, Phase Metrics, Cirrus Logic, and NCR Corporation. Doerpinghaus holds an MBA from Indiana University.

Pat Hays
Vice President, Acalis Business Unit
Pat Hays is responsible for the Acalis semiconductor business unit. Prior to CPU Tech Pat was vice president of engineering at MIPS Technologies. He is a leading developer of real-time processors with over 25 years of semiconductor experience.

Dave Bennett
Vice President, Software
Dave Bennett has more than 30 years experience in software development with over 20 years of this in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining CPU Tech, Mr. Bennett was Vice President of Software Development at Xilinx, Inc..