Strasbaugh's Board of Directors Chairman of the Board and CEO - Alan Strasbaugh Director - Bryant Riley Director - Martin Kulawski Director - Dan O'Hare Director - Jerauld J. Cutini   Alan Strasbaugh has served as our Board Chairman since May 2007 and as Board Chairman of our operating subsidiary, R. H. Strasbaugh since 1978.  Mr. Strasbaugh started employment at Strasbaugh in 1961.  For the first ten years he worked in most phases of manufacturing and engineering, followed by eight years of manufacturing management, then ten years as General Manager and Director of Operations.   He was CEO from 1990 to 1998, growing annual sales from $8 million to $80 million.  He resumed the CEO position in 2010.  He has a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.  He has been awarded nine U.S. patents related to semiconductor manufacturing.   Bryant Riley was elected to the Board of Directors on July 22, 2010.  Mr. Riley is Chairman of B. Riley & Co., LLC, a Southern California-based brokerage firm which provides research and trading ideas primarily to institutional investors and is a full service investment bank.  Mr. Riley also is founder and Managing Member of Riley Investment Management LLC, an investment advisor which provides investment management services.  Mr. Riley serves on the board of directors of Alliance Semiconductor Corporation, DDi Corporation, Great American Group, and Trans World Entertainment. He has served as advisor on a variety of M&A engagements, including the sale of Mossimo Inc. to Iconix Brand Group, Inc.  Prior to 1997, Mr. Riley held a variety of positions in the brokerage industry, primarily as an institutional salesman and trader. From October 1993 to January 1997 he was a co-head of Equity at Dabney-Resnick, Inc., a Los Angeles-based brokerage firm. From 1991 to 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.   Martin Kulawski was elected to the Board of Directors August 7, 2009.  Currently Dr. Kulawski is president of his own firm, Advaplan, a CMP foundry and consulting service.  From 2000 to 2007 he was Project Manager at the Government Technical Institute of Finland.  From 1998 to 2000 he was a team leader for CMP tool installation and process integration at customer sites for Peter Wolters Company.  Dr. Kulawski is a member of CMP user groups in the United States and Europe and has been a speaker and lecturer at semiconductor conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia.  He has authored more than 15 papers published in scientific journals.  Dr. Kulawski was awarded a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with a Solid State Electronics minor in 1998 from Christian Albrecht University and a Ph.D. with a CMP thesis from the Technical University of Helsinki.    Dan O'Hare was elected to the Board of Directors on August 7, 2009.  Mr. O’Hare has been with the accounting firm of Glenn, Burdette, Phillips and Bryson since 1989 specializing in tax planning and business consulting.  He has been the President and managing partner since 1999.  Prior to that he held positions at Arthur Young and Ernst and Whinney.  He has served board and officer positions at the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.  He currently serves on the board of Heritage Oaks Bank where he is the SEC designated financial expert of the Audit Committee.  He has testified as an expert witness at Civil, Probate and Domestic Superior Courts.  Mr. O’Hare earned a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in 1985 from Notre Dame University.   Jerry Cutini was elected to the Board of Directors July 22, 2010.  Mr. Cutini has worked in the semiconductor equipment industry since 1981, beginning in sales and customer service roles with Silicon Valley Group and Applied Materials.  In 1990 he co-founded OnTrak Systems, a CMP wafer cleaning equipment company.  After developing proprietary CMP technology and executing an IPO in 1995 at a value of $225 million, OnTrak was acquired by Lam Research in 1997 for $400 million.  Mr. Cutini served at Lam as president of the OnTrak division.  In 1999 he joined Gasonics which was acquired by Novellus in 2001.  In 2003, Mr. Cutini co-founded Aviza with assets acquired from ASML.  With Mr. Cutini serving as president, Aviza grew in five years to nearly $250 million in annual sales.  He has served on multiple public and private company Boards.  Mr. Cutini is a veteran of the U.S. Navy where he studied electronics.