E-TROL Z - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Advisors
• Principal Research Scientist at MIT

Gari Clifford is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT where he is the engineering manager of a National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded research program "Integrating Data, Models, and Reasoning in Critical Care". Dr Clifford has authored over 50 articles in the field of biomedical engineering, including a reference book on advanced ECG signal processing. Dr Clifford, a Senior Member of the IEEE, is on the editorial boards of Biomedical Engineering Online and the Journal of Biological Systems. Dr. Clifford received the B.Sc. degree in Physics and Electronics from Exeter University, Devon, U.K., the M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Southampton University, Southampton, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree in Neural Networks and Biomedical Engineering from Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., in 1992, 1995, and 2003, respectively. Dr. Clifford has worked in industry on the design and production of several EC and FDA approved medical devices and is a major contributor to the well-known PhysioNet Research Resource. Dr Clifford has taught at Oxford, MIT and Harvard and is currently an Instructor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Advisors

Currently, Mr. Razdan is a private investor and consults with early stage start-ups in the medical device and energy fields. Mr. Razdan is a seasoned executive with broad-based experience in strategic partnerships for technology based software, semiconductor, and services companies, both domestically and internationally. Prior to his current role, he spent 12 years at Cadence Design Systems. Mr. Razdan spent the most recent five years as Corporate VP and Managing Director providing sales and strategic partner management of Cadence's largest customer with well over $100+M in bilateral business along with driving various forms of corporate transformations including M&A and spinouts. He spent his first seven years at Cadence leveraging his deep technical expertise in the areas of semiconductor design, EDA, and CASE by leading large, multi-site international organizations as Corporate VP and GM of the System and Functional Verification Business, a $200M+ software business unit. Prior to joining Cadence Design Systems, Mr. Razdan worked at Digital Equipment Corporation for ten years as Computer Architect of the cache and memory sub-system for the ALPHA processor and as CAE Team leader for switch-level simulation, equivalence checker, and automatic test pattern generation. Mr. Razdan earned BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. Mr. Razdan holds over 20 patents and 20 referred publications.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Chairman Emeritus of Eaton Vance Corp

Mr. Hawkes is Chairman Emeritus of Eaton Vance Corp., a Boston-based publicly traded asset management firm. Mr. Hawkes joined Eaton Vance in 1970 as an equity research analyst and a vice president. He was named portfolio manager of Capital Exchange Fund, predecessor of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Growth Fund, the company's flagship equity fund, in 1972. He was appointed Director of Research in 1979 and Chief Investment Officer in 1985. Mr. Hawkes was named Executive Vice President in 1990 and President and Chief Executive Officer in 1996. He became Chairman in 1997. Mr. Hawkes retired from Eaton Vance on October 31, 2007. During his tenure, Mr. Hawkes led the successful product development and marketing of Eaton Vance's mutual funds. His efforts established Eaton Vance as one of the largest sponsors of municipal bond and senior floating-rate loan funds, and tax-managed growth funds, and he introduced the nation's first mutual funds to focus on China and India. He also initiated several new business lines for Eaton Vance, including separately managed accounts, institutional, and charitable giving. The Company's assets under management grew from $17 billion when he became CEO in 1996 to nearly $160 billion at his retirement in 2007. During Mr. Hawkes' last years as CEO, Eaton Vance led the fund industry for five consecutive years in closed-end fund assets raised and brought to market the largest ever initial public offering of a closed-end fund, the $2.62 billion Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund (ETY). Prior to joining Eaton Vance, Mr. Hawkes was affiliated with United Nuclear Corporation as a senior engineer from 1968 to 1969. He also served for four years in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Service. Mr. Hawkes graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1964 with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1970. He has earned a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is an active member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts and the Boston Security Analysts Society. In addition, Mr. Hawkes is a Trustee of the USS Constitution Museum and Peabody Essex Museum. During his career, Mr. Hawkes received many awards, including Fund Action's 2003 Marketer of the Year and, in 2008, its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. His commentary has appeared in American Banker, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, CBS Marketwatch, Dow Jones Newswires, Investment News, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Member of the Board of Directors
• President

Mr. Robertson has a broad-ranging 30 plus year career in multiple R&D and executive positions for large, multinational electronics companies focused on embedded controls. Prior to co-founding E-trol Z, Mr. Robertson built from scratch two embedded control design service businesses, one inside Cadence Design Systems, a $1.6 billion electronic design automation software company, and the other inside Suntron, a $500 million contract manufacturer. Prior to starting the two design services businesses, Mr. Robertson was Director of North American Research and Development at Schneider Automation (presently Schneider Electric's Automation Division), a pioneer in factory automation, responsible for managing and directing the $30 million yearly product development activity, utilizing cross-functional, cross-site teams gaining vast experience in leading international (India, Germany, France and Japan) developments and processes. Previously at Schneider Automation he was Director of Programs performing organizational development, financial planning and oversight, process development, project management, and customer relations.

Job Titles:

• VP Sales & Marketing

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Co - Founder of W & M Associates

Mr. Paul W. White is co-founder of W & M Associates, a Brookline, Massachusetts-based management consulting firm providing strategic direction to both emerging and mature companies in the high technology industry. Mr. White has extensive experience, both domestic and international, in growing technology-based companies from start-up to multi-national market leaders. Mr. White was President and CEO of AEG Modicon (presently Schneider Electric's Automation Division), a pioneer in factory automation. Previously, he was General Manager of the Industry Automation Division of Analog Devices, a $1 billion manufacturer of high precision electronic components and subsystems. Prior to that, he grew a new division for The Foxboro Company to $60 million through numerous acquisitions as Vice President of Marketing. He also led two successful start-up ventures, one based on technology licensed from A. D. Little and the other from technology developed at MIT. Mr. White received his MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Co - Founder and Owner of Superior Controls

Rick Pierro is co-founder and owner of Superior Controls, a leading automation engineering company. He has twenty-three years of control systems experience. Mr. Pierro received a BA in Chemistry from Boston University in 1981, and an MS in Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1983. His graduate level thesis involved testing advanced PID tuning techniques for process control applications. While developing his thesis during those two years, he also taught several process control lab courses and later attended business courses at Harvard Business School. For three years after graduating, Mr. Pierro worked as an application engineer at a systems integrator designing and implementing PLC based control systems for the chemical and food and beverage industries. Over the next eight years, he advanced through project engineering, sales, and sales management, before co-founding Superior Controls in 1993. Besides serving on the Board for E-trol Z, he serves on the Board of Acumentrics, a leading manufacturer of fuel cell power generation products. He also is on the Board of Directors and is currently President of ISPE-Boston; he is a Trustee of the New Hampshire High Tech Council; and he is Chairman of the Board of Advisors to the University of Massachusetts Lowell Chemical Engineering Department. Mr. Pierro is also a recipient of the "Distinguished Engineering Award" from the Francis College of Engineering at University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Advisors

Mr. Roberts joined SleepMed Incorporated in June 2001 and is currently the Vice President of Engineering & Technical Services. In his current role he is responsible for product development, manufacturing, materials management, quality assurance, IT, regulatory affairs, and clinical and technical customer support. Prior to joining SleepMed, he spent 15 years in the medical device field. For the five years preceding SleepMed, Mr. Roberts co-founded and served as R&D Manager and as Senior Project Manager for Assurance Medical, a company that develops computer-based breast imaging products. He spent eight and a half years with Boston Scientific Corporation in engineering management positions developing minimally invasive products utilizing radio frequency and laser energy sources. Prior to Boston Scientific, Mr. Roberts spent a year and a half with Flow Laboratories as a Manufacturing Manager responsible for their biological media and plastic molding assembly lines. Mr. Roberts earned a BS in Industrial Technology from Fitchburg State College, a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University. Mr. Roberts holds 13 patents in various fields including gastroenterology, cardiology, interventional radiology, medical imaging, and neurology.