MANAGEMENT

Ed Trevis

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Trevis has been Corvalent’s President and Chief Executive Officer since the company’s inception in 1993. Nominated by the San Jose Business Journal for The 2005 Top 50 Award, Corvalent ranked 26th in the Fastest Growing Private companies in Silicon Valley. His leadership and business acumen have delivered double-digit growth and a rapid gain in the company’s market share. Prior to founding the company, Mr. Trevis was Director of Sales of DEICO Electronics where he managed Regional Sales Managers selling industrial motherboards in the OEM market.

Mr. Trevis holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and drives the company’s values of vision, focus, integrity, loyalty, honesty and growth, including fostering entrepreneurship. Mr. Trevis has been a CEO member of Vistage International since 2001, a global top-level executive committee of business leaders.

Denise Manchester

Vice President of Sales

Ms. Manchester has over twenty years of sales management and sales experience in the industrial PC based embedded hardware market. She has worked for Corvalent since 1994. As Vice President of Sales, Ms. Manchester oversees a staff of senior Regional Sales Managers. Before joining Corvalent, Ms. Manchester held sales management positions with RSI where she closed a multi-million dollar a year contract and managed a team of inside technical sales engineers. Prior to RSI, Ms. Manchester worked for ADAC Laboratories, a medical equipment company.

Ms. Manchester is an ISO 9001:2000 certified auditor. She is an active member of Women in Business and the Small Business Association. She has been a member of Vistage International since 2003, a global top-level executive committee of business leaders.

Martin Rudloff

Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Rudloff has more than 30 years of experience in the Electronic industry. Mr. Rudloff has worked for Corvalent since 1994 and has driven all aspects of product technology from concept to development, production, and validation to comprehensive product support. In 1991, Mr. Rudloff relocated to United States to manage the Test Validation Department for DEICO Electronics, an industrial motherboard manufacturer. Before DEICO, he joined MSM Corporation, a technical support and computer maintenance company. He was directly involved in operations and was technical liaison between the technicians, support personnel and the product manufacturers based in the United States. He started his professional career founding a consulting company specialized in providing software and computer technology training to Executives and other professionals.

Mr. Rudloff has a BS degree in Electric Engineering from Escola Politecnica, “USP?University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Elcio Santos

Controller

Mr. Santos has experience in business operations, management, finance and information systems, and has held a financial management post with Corvalent since 1994. He has developed and shaped a comprehensive information infrastructure and financial systems that are in place to this day. Previously Mr. Santos worked for Ralston Purina Corporation and used relational database technology, developed multi-currency accounting systems, financial report writer and other ERP related applications. Mr. Santos has previous expertise as a commercial applications programmer and systems analyst.

Mr. Santos holds a BS degree in Data Processing and Business Administration by Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has been a member of Vistage International since 2003, a global top-level executive committee of business leaders.

Beverly Gracie

Accounting Manager

Mrs. Gracie has over 25 years of experience in finance and business operations in the medical and information technology fields. Before joining Corvalent in January 2006, she served as Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Polytron Corporation, a network integration company. While at Polytron she specialized in professional services outsourcing and complex system integration and implementation.

Mrs. Gracie holds a B.S. degree in Human Relations and Organization Behavior from University of San Francisco.

Rick Octavio

Engineering Manager

Mr. Octavio has worked for Corvalent since 2004. He has twenty years of extensive engineering management experience with leading edge technology companies in Silicon Valley. Previously he was Sr. Manager of Global Engineering Services at Sun Microsystems, a leading provider of industrial high-end servers and software. He led a team of 62 Program Managers and Analysis?in the US and Europe, and directed the Product Information Management initiatives to centralize all product information to build, test and ship products anywhere in the world. Prior to Sun, he was Engineering Product Support Manager at VISX, a leader in Excimer Laser Eye Correction Systems. He led a team of Product Engineers and contributed to the FDA approval and production release of the Star Laser System. He championed and implemented the Agile PDM software and Orcad CAE.

He was Director of Engineering Services at Compression Labs Inc, world leader of compressed Digital Video Conferencing technology. Responsible for the Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, PCB Design and third party compliance of Video Conferencing Products, and implemented ComputerVision Cadds 4x systems, Daisy CAE, Mentor CAE, View Logic CAE and Cadence/Alegro CAD systems.

Mr. Octavio was Electrical Engineering Support Manager at International Game Technology, world leader of microprocessor-based gaming products and software. He contributed to major projects such as the "Wheel of Fortune" and implemented ProE CAD, Orcad CAE, Cooper and Chyan PCB auto router and championed the application of SMT technology in new board designs. Mr. Octavio was Project manager for the EMI/RFI Anechoic Chamber facility, the largest chamber in the state of Nevada, and established the IPC Designers Council for Reno, Nevada.

Alex Obice

Materials Manager

Mr. Obice has worked for Corvalent since 1997. His responsibilities include overseeing materials, purchasing, planning, production, and quality departments. Previous to Corvalent, Mr. Obice held positions with Mercedes-Benz, the German automobile manufacturer. For seventeen years, his appointments ranged from the division specialized in bus chassis assembly to several divisions of quality and mechanical engineering.

Mr. Obice is an ISO 9001:2000 certified auditor. Mr. Obice earned his BS degree of Mechanical Engineering from the Piracicaba Methodist University, “UNIMEP?Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has been a member of Vistage International since 2004, a global top-level executive committee of business leaders.

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