Larry Sanders was elected as an independent member of the board of directors effective December 13 2007. Mr. Sanders has been a director of Xantrex Technology Inc. a public company headquartered in Vancouver British Columbia since May 2005 and also serves on the boards of several civic and charitable organizations. Mr. Sanders was previously the chief executive officer of Sanera Systems a startup storage networking company which was acquired in 2003. Prior to that he held chief executive officer positions at Crossroads Systems Corporation and Fujitsu Computer Products of America. Mr. Sanders also served as vice president international for Conner Peripherals a disk drive manufacturer in Singapore and prior to that as senior vice president of sales and marketing and group president at Calcomp a wholly owned subsidiary company of Lockheed Corporation. Mr. Sanders began his career with IBM Corporation where he worked for 13 years and held a number of sales marketing and general management positions. |