Board of Directors

Michael Clair*
Douglas Barnett
Woodson Hobbs
Richard Noling
Mitchell Tuchman

Mr. Tuchman was appointed to the Board in September 2008. He is a member of both the Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Tuchman brings more than 26 years of experience in venture capital, public finance, strategy and technology in Silicon Valley. From 2001 until 2007, Mr. Tuchman consulted with Crestview Capital and Apex Capital on their technology micro-cap and special situations portfolios, and continues to co-manage a venture capital fund with Apex. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Tuchman invested in and advised venture funds that were primarily focused on the Internet. Mr. Tuchman began his career at Atari, Inc. and served as an operating executive for several Silicon Valley companies while leading them through strategic transformations. He currently serves on the boards of Workstream Inc. (Nasdaq:WSTM), where he chairs the compensation committee and is a member of the audit committee, and Kowabunga! (AMEX: THK), where he is chairman of the board. Mr. Tuchman also served on the board of Kintera (Nasdaq: KNTA) and chaired the strategic development committee until it was sold to Blackbaud (BLKB) in May 2008. Mr. Tuchman holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Member Member of the Audit Committee
Member Member of the Compensation Committee


  Audit Nominating and Governance Compensation
Michael Clair*   Committee Chair for Nominating and Governance Committee Committee Chair for Compensation Committee

Mr. Clair was appointed to the Board in August 2007 and was elected Chairman of the Board in January 2008. He also chairs both the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee. Mr. Clair is a technology investor and consultant to Silicon Valley companies. From 1996 until its sale to Nokia in 2006, Mr. Clair was Chairman of the Board of Intellisync Corporation. He has held senior and executive management positions at Tymshare Inc., ROLM Corporation and SynOptics Communications, Inc., which he co-founded. He currently serves on the boards of a number of privately-held technology companies, including Corfino and NDS Surgical Imaging. He is also on the Board of the NCGA Foundation, and the west coast Board of the V Foundation for cancer research. Mr. Clair holds a B.S. in Business and Finance and an MBA in Operations Research from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Douglas Barnett  Member of Audit Committee   Member of Compensation Committee

Mr. Barnett was appointed to the Board in July 2007. He is also a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Barnett is currently Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of AlixPartners, an international corporate turnaround, performance improvement and financial advisory firm. From 2003 to 2007, he served as Senior Vice President, Finance and as Chief Financial Officer for UGS PLM Software, a global provider of product lifecycle management software and services. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Barnett was the Chief Financial Officer of Colfax Corporation. Mr. Barnett received his B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School. Mr. Barnett is a Certified Public Accountant.

Woodson Hobbs      
Woodson Hobbs

Mr. Hobbs joined the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company in September 2006. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hobbs served as president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of Intellisync Corporation, a provider of platform-independent wireless messaging and mobile software, from 2002 to 2006. Between 1995 and 2002, Mr. Hobbs was a consulting executive for the venture capital community and a strategic systems consultant to large corporations. During this timeframe, he held the position of interim chief executive officer for various periods at the following companies: FaceTime Communications, a provider of instant messaging network-independent business solutions; Tradenable, Inc., an online escrow service company; BigBook, Inc., a provider in the online yellow pages industry; and I/PRO Corporation, a provider of quantitative measurement of Web site usage. From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Hobbs served as chief executive officer of Tesseract Corporation, a human resources outsourcing and software company. Mr. Hobbs spent the early part of his career with Charles Schwab Corporation, a securities brokerage and financial services company, as chief information officer; with Service Bureau, a division of IBM, as a developer; and with Online Focus, an online credit union system, as the director of operations.

Richard Noling  Committee Chair for Audit Committee Member of Nominating and Governance Committee  

Mr. Noling was appointed to the Board in September 2005. He also chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Noling is currently Interim Chief Financial Officer at SpeechPhone LLC, a provider of hosted speech services. From 2003 to September 2005, Mr. Noling served as the Chief Executive Officer of ThinGap Corporation, a designer, developer and manufacturer of high-efficiency electric motors. Mr. Noling served as Chief Financial Officer of Insignia Solutions Inc., a software company, from 1996 to 1997, and then as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2003. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Noling was Chief Financial Officer of DocuMagix, Inc., a personal paper management software developer, and from 1991 to 1994, he was Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Gupta Corporation, a developer of relational databases and development tools. Mr. Noling is currently a director of Hifn, Inc., where he serves on the audit, nominating and governance, and strategy committees. Mr. Noling received his B.A. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Science from the University of California, San Diego, an M.A. from Fuller Theological Seminary and an M.S. in Administration from the University of California, Irvine.

Mitchell Tuchman  Member of Audit Committee   Member of Compensation Committee

Mr. Tuchman was appointed to the Board in September 2008. He is a member of both the Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Tuchman brings more than 26 years of experience in venture capital, public finance, strategy and technology in Silicon Valley. From 2001 until 2007, Mr. Tuchman consulted with Crestview Capital and Apex Capital on their technology micro-cap and special situations portfolios, and continues to co-manage a venture capital fund with Apex. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Tuchman invested in and advised venture funds that were primarily focused on the Internet. Mr. Tuchman began his career at Atari, Inc. and served as an operating executive for several Silicon Valley companies while leading them through strategic transformations. He currently serves on the boards of Workstream Inc. (Nasdaq:WSTM), where he chairs the compensation committee and is a member of the audit committee, and Kowabunga! (AMEX: THK), where he is chairman of the board. Mr. Tuchman also served on the board of Kintera (Nasdaq: KNTA) and chaired the strategic development committee until it was sold to Blackbaud (BLKB) in May 2008. Mr. Tuchman holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

* Chairman of the Board

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Committee Member = Member
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