Strasbaugh's Board of Directors Chairman of the Board and CEO - Alan Strasbaugh Director - Bryant Riley Director - Chuck Schillings 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.   Chuck Schillings has served on the Board of Directors since January 1, 2011.  He served as our President & CEO from May 2007 to May 2010 and as President & CEO of our operating subsidiary, R. H. Strasbaugh, since 2005. Mr. Schillings was also a Director of R. H. Strasbaugh between 2003 and 2007. From 2001 to 2004, he was engaged in real estate development and was President and Director of a not-for-profit organization he co-founded. From 1994 to 2001, he held several management positions at R. H. Strasbaugh, including V.P. of Marketing, Director of Corporate Marketing Strategic Business Unit, and Manager Marketing & Sales, Japan & Asia Pacific. Prior to 1994, he held positions of V.P. of Marketing and Director of Due Diligence for a real estate syndication firm and Senior Due Diligence Analyst at a securities broker-dealer.  Mr. Schillings holds an M.S.B.A. in International Business from San Francisco State University and a B.S. in Business Finance with an Economics Minor from San Diego State University.   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.