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Board of Directors

Dave Vucina, Chairman of the Board

For more than 30 years Dave Vucina has had extensive business experience in sales, marketing, business development, operations, engineering, mergers and acquisitions, financial management, product development, international business and a variety of money raising activities in the public and private markets. He has served in executive capacities with Harris-Lanier, a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded technology company, ProNet, a publicly traded communications company where he was the President and COO, and most recently as the CEO of Wayport Inc., a privately held venture backed wireless company, recently acquired by AT&T. In 2002 he was named by Business Week Online as one of the 25 most influential executives in e-business, and in 2004 he was a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Austin, Texas.

Steve Mitgang, CEO

A digital technology visionary and proven business builder, Steve is known for creating and managing products and companies for high growth and market success. He has secured funding for and matured technology startups; steered mergers and acquisitions; conceived, launched and directed a multi-billion-dollar internet advertising platform, and driven companies to success by forging rewarding partnerships, acquiring top talent and building winning teams. Prior to SmartDrive, Steve was CEO of Veoh, the Internet television company now part of Qlipso, and before that he served as Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s advertising products, platforms, and services. Steve holds a degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jason Palmer, President

Jason Palmer brings over 16 years of experience in leadership bringing award winning products to market for fast growing technology companies such as WebTrends, 800.com, Qualcomm, Now Software, Clientele Software, and Tut Systems. Prior to joining SmartDrive, Jason was the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at WebTrends, Inc, where he was responsible for defining the market-leading product development and go-to-market strategies for WebTrends award-winning Marketing Lab suite of digital marketing solutions and services. He was a founding member of 800.com's management team that grew the company to $50M annual revenue within four years. He is a graduate of Oregon State University with degrees in Marketing and Economics.

Bandel L. Carano, Managing Partner, Oak Investment Partners

Bandel L.Carano, Managing Partner, joined Oak Investment Partners in 1985 and became a General Partner in 1987. Bandel has invested in companies with emphasis on Wireless and Rich-Media communications (2Wire, Airspan, Avici, CommVerge, CoreTek, Endwave, FiberTower, General Bandwidth, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, MobiTV, NeoPhotonics, Netopia, PictureTel, Plastic Logic, Polycom, Presidio, PulsePoint, Qtera, Sentient Networks, SmartDrive Systems, Tegic, Trapeze, and Wellfleet); Advanced Software Systems (Entropic, firstRain, Illustra/Informix, Sybase, Tele Atlas and Visto); Advanced Semiconductors (Actel, Airgo, CommQuest, Kenet, Level 5, NemeriX, Newport Media, nLight, Qpixel, Resonext, SMIC, Solarflare, Stretch, Synaptics and Virata); Design Automation (Centric Software, Interconnectix, Parametric, Synopsys and Tensilica) and Clean Energy Technologies (Aurora BioFuels, Boston-Power, eSolar, GreenVolts, NanoH2O, PML, ReliOn, and Sundrop Fuels). Prior to Oak, Bandel joined Morgan Stanley's Venture Capital Group in 1983. He was responsible for advising Morgan Stanley on high-tech new business development, as well as sponsoring venture investments. Bandel received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He currently serves on the Investment Advisory Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund.

Dick Kramlich, General Partner/Co-Founder, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

Dick has more than 35 years of venture capital investment experience. Dick focuses on a broad range of technically oriented companies. He was fortunate to have been the first person to have invested in the Ethernet with Bob Metcalfe, an early investor in balloon angioplasty with John Simpson and also backed the company that originated PowerPoint presentations. Present board memberships include Financial Engines, Force10 Networks, Foveon, Informative, MaxiScale, Nexthop Technologies, Tabula, Visual Edge Technology, Xoom Corporation and Zhone Technologies (NASDAQ: ZHNE). Previous board memberships include among others, 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS), Ascend Communications (acquired by Lucent Technologies), Dallas Semiconductor (acquired by Maxim Integrated Products), Healtheon/WedMD (NASDAQ: HLTH), Immunex (acquired by Amgen), InfoGear (acquired by Cisco Systems), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR), Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) acquired by Adobe, NetSolve (NASDAQ: NTSL) acquired by Cisco Systems, Decru (acquired by Network Appliance), Silicon Graphics, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) (NYSE: SMI). He was recently Chairman and President of the National Venture Capital Association. Prior to joining NEA, Dick was a General Partner of Arthur Rock & Associates and Executive Vice President of Gardner & Preston Moss. He received an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in History from Northwestern University.

Robert Siegel, General Partner, X/Seed Capital Management

Drawing on over 23 years of experience spanning the semiconductor, networking, physical security, software and venture industries, Robert Siegel is an experienced leader with a proven track record in strategy definition, operational execution, product development, international sales and marketing, investing, fund raising and strategic relationships. Robert currently serves as General Partner with X/Seed Capital Management, an early stage venture fund that invests in enterprises that have developed advanced technical innovations where there is an opportunity to develop large commercial enterprises. Prior to X/Seed, Robert was the General Manager, Video and Software Solutions for GE Security (NYSE:GE). In this role, he was responsible for GE's video surveillance global Center of Excellence (COE), which generated revenues of over $350 million in 2006. Robert's responsibilities included developing the firm's strategic direction in video, delivering on global product roadmaps and the formulation of the corresponding go-to-market activities. In addition, Robert has held executive positions at Pixim, Inc., Weave Innovations, Inc. (Founder), Intel and GeoWorks. He also worked as a consultant for Sun Microsystems and Bain and company. Robert has a Bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University. In 1996, he served as lead researcher for Andrew Grove's best-selling book, Only the Paranoid Survive.