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Executive Staff Board of Directors
David Scott
President & Chief Executive Officer

David Scott David Scott joined 3PAR as President and CEO in January 2001. Over the past nine years, David has led 3PAR from an early-stage enterprise storage company through the company's successful Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: PAR) in November 2007. Under his guidance, 3PAR has defined and introduced Utility Storage, a new category of storage designed for utility and cloud computing. During his tenure, 3PAR has also grown a high-profile and satisfied customer base in large- and medium-sized enterprises, government agencies, and service providers. At the same time, 3PAR has expanded research and development operations into Northern Ireland and developed sales operations globally in the US, UK, Japan, Asia Pacific, Europe and South Africa.

David has 26 years experience in the enterprise storage, software, and server market. He was previously the General Manager of Hewlett-Packard's XP enterprise storage business in its Network Storage Solutions organization. In the 21 months from its introduction in May 1999, this business generated over $1 billion in sales, leading HP to move from sixth to third place in the external storage market as reported by IDC.

Prior to this role, David held various marketing, business strategy, sales and systems engineering positions in Hewlett-Packard's HP9000 enterprise server, HP-UX software and enterprise storage businesses both in the US and the UK.

David holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Computer Science and Mathematics from Bristol University in the UK.

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Adriel Lares
Vice President of Finance & Chief Financial Officer

Adriel Lares Adriel Lares brings fourteen years of experience in finance to the position of Chief Financial Officer at 3PAR. Since joining the company in 2001, Adriel has successfully led treasury, debt, and equity financing activities including two highly successful equity financing rounds for $32 million in 2004 and $30 million in 2006. More recently, his leadership was essential in taking the company through a $105 million-dollar IPO in November 2007.

Prior to joining 3PAR, Adriel served as the CFO at storage array reseller Techfuel. Adriel also worked with mergers and acquisitions as an investment banker in Morgan Stanley's technology banking division and gained treasury experience while working in Walt Disney Corporation's corporate treasury group.

Adriel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University.

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Jeff Price
Co-Founder & CTO of System Design

Jeff Price One of 3PAR's founders, Jeff Price joined 3PAR from Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the development and product definition of the enterprise 1000 to 6000 series of world-class server products. During his tenure, revenue for the server product line grew over ten-fold. Jeff was awarded the prestigious Sun President's Award for his contributions. In addition to his Sun experience, he has worked for startups Encore and Sequoia Systems.

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Ashok Singhal
Co-Founder and CTO of System Architecture

Ashok Singhal Ashok Singhal brings over twenty years of strong technical experience to his position at 3PAR. Prior to helping found 3PAR in 1999, he was Chief Architect at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the system architecture for Sun's next-generation, extremely successful Enterprise 3000 to 6000 server family. As a Sun Distinguished Engineer, he designed and specified the system interface and cache coherence protocol for the UltraSPARC III processor. He was awarded the President's Award in 1996 for his contributions to Sun servers. Earlier, he served as a field engineer for Schlumberger Wireline Services in the People's Republic of China (oilfield services) for two years.

Ashok holds a BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he received the Ratan Swarup Gold Medal for best all-around student. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Peter Slocum
Vice President of Engineering

Peter Slocum A highly regarded tech executive, Peter Slocum joined 3PAR in 2009 from privately-held ViVOtech, where he was Senior Vice President of Engineering responsible for Engineering, Information Technology, and Customer Support. While at ViVOtech, Peter successfully launched a number of hardware and software products for NFC-enabled mobile phones and RFID readers. Prior to ViVOtech, he was Vice President of Systems Quality Assurance and Engineering Operations at Brocade Communications and Vice President of Engineering at both Cylink Corporation and Octel Communications. Prior to these executive roles, Peter worked as an engineer at Silicon Graphics, MIPS Computer Systems, and Hewlett Packard.

Peter holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.


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RJ Weigel
Vice President of Worldwide Sales

RJ Weigel RJ Weigel brings over twenty years of senior sales experience to 3PAR. He joined 3PAR in 2007 as Vice President of North American Sales before being promoted to Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Field Operations in 2009. Prior to his tenure at 3PAR, RJ served as the Vice President of the Central US for NetApp, where he led an aggressive and highly successful expansion effort. Under his leadership, the company saw substantial growth in both direct and indirect markets. RJ also spent seven years at Cisco in a number of different leadership positions, including Operations Director for the Southwest United States. RJ holds a BA degree in Communications from the University of Iowa.

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Rusty Walther
Vice President of Customer Services

Rusty WaltherRusty Walther brings more than twenty-five years of customer service excellence to the role of Vice President of Customer Services at 3PAR. Rusty joined 3PAR from Data Domain following the company’s acquisition by EMC. Prior to working at Data Domain, Rusty was NetApp’s Senior Vice President of Global Support. He has also held senior support positions at ONI Systems, AboveNet, Nortel, 3Com, and SynOptics. Prior to entering private industry, Rusty spent 16-years in the US Marine Corps building and managing a variety of worldwide IT systems, and departed government service in 1992 as Director of US Marine Corps West Coast Data Center Operations. Rusty has a tremendous track record addressing the specific service-related issues that 3PAR faces as the company scales through the next phase of development.
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Craig Nunes
Vice President of Marketing

Craig Nunes Craig Nunes has over eighteen years of accomplished marketing experience. Since arriving at 3PAR in 2000, he has led product marketing and management, developed category focus on Utility Storage, managed lead generation and grown company awareness both domestically and internationally. Under Craig's direction, 3PAR has achieved a reputation as a leader in storage for utility computing.

Prior to 3PAR, Craig worked at Hewlett Packard as Senior Director of Platform Marketing for HP's enterprise disk array business. His tenure at HP also included extensive contributions within HP's enterprise UNIX server business, including several years as the Director of Product Marketing for HP-UX Servers. Craig holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

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Steve Crimi
Vice President of Business Development & Alliances

Steve Crimi Steve Crimi has over eighteen years of high-impact business development and product management experience. Since joining 3PAR in October 2002, Steve has led 3PAR's business development activities and has established alliances with industry leading companies for IT infrastructure solutions. Under Steve's leadership, these alliances have resulted in 3PAR Utility Storage being qualified with market leading solutions from companies including Oracle®, Microsoft®, Symantec™, IBM®, HP, Sun™, Brocade™, and Cisco®.

Prior to joining 3PAR, Steve worked at Acta Technology as Vice President of Alliances. Previously, he worked at Hewlett Packard in various management roles for business development and product management within HP's UNIX server business. Steve graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York. He holds an MBA degree from the Haas School of Business and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Randy Gast
Vice President of Corporate Operations

Randy Gast Randy Gast brings over twenty years of operations experience to 3PAR. Prior to joining 3PAR, Randy was Vice President of Global Operations at Adaptec, having joined Adaptec in 2004 as part of the Snap Appliance acquisition. Prior to this, Randy served as Senior Director of Worldwide Operations & Materials for the Network Attached Storage Group at Maxtor Corporation and Director of Operations at ADFlex Solutions, a PCBA and FPCA manufacturer in Thailand. Randy's additional experience includes six years at IBM as an engineer and Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining high-volume, low-mix PCBA manufacturing. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Arizona State University with a dual major in Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (CMfgE).

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Alastair Short
Vice President & General Counsel

Alastair Short Alastair Short brings more than twenty years of experience helping companies develop legal and commercial strategies for growth through new alliances, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and organic growth. Prior to joining 3PAR, he served as Chief Legal Officer and Assistant Secretary for Netigy, a global professional services company. He also served as General Counsel for MetaTV, a global software company. Prior to that, Alastair served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary for Hitachi Data Systems. For twelve years he was responsible for worldwide legal affairs at HDS, which included counseling 25 subsidiaries and its worldwide network of distributors. He also oversaw their Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations Department and Internal Audit function.

Alastair received his Bachelor of Law Degree from the University of Warwick and completed various post-graduate courses in law at the London School of Economics and Guildford College of Law. He is a member of the New York State Bar and a Solicitor with the English Bar.

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Jeannette Robinson
Vice President of Human Resources

Jeannette Robinson Jeannette Robinson has more than twenty years of HR experience. Prior to joining 3PAR she was Vice President of Human Resources at Corsair Communications, a provider of business solutions for the wireless industry. Prior to that, she held human resource management and recruiting positions at various startups including Cisco Systems, NET, and KLA Instruments (now KLA/Tencor). She has a proven track record of establishing effective HR functions to meet the key objectives of hiring and retaining the best employees. She has played a key role in several IPOs and mergers/acquisitions.

Jeannette holds a BS degree in Business Administration and a BS degree in Sociology/Criminology from San Jose State University.

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Kevin Fong
3PAR Board Member
Non-Executive Chairman

Kevin Fong Kevin Fong is a veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist with almost two decades of experience. Since March 2008, Kevin has served as a special advisor of GSR Ventures, a venture capital investment firm. From July 1990 to March 2008, Kevin was a managing director of Mayfield Fund, a venture capital investment firm, during which time he groomed a new generation of Mayfield leaders and mentored scores of CEOs. As one of the most respected ethnic Chinese venture capitalists in the Silicon Valley, Kevin also led Mayfield's China-based strategy and investments. Prior to Mayfield, Kevin was an operating executive at networking company David Systems, Hewlett Packard, and Nortel/Bell Northern Research.

Kevin has developed a broad and deep investment focus in the communications, wireless, semiconductor, software, and consumer media sectors. Kevin's notable past investments include Alantec, Crescendo Communications, Legato, Latitude, Mobile 365, Redback Networks, and Tasman Networks. Kevin has served as the non-executive chairman of the 3PAR Board of Directors since January 2007 and has been a member of the board since May 1999. Kevin also currently sits on the boards of Cemaphore Systems, Fultec, Hammerhead Systems, Mendocino Software, ONStor, and Velocity11.

Kevin holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and also an MBA degree from Stanford University.

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Mark A. Siegel
3PAR Board Member
Director

Mark A. SiegelMark Siegel has been with Menlo Ventures since 1996, where his main areas of focus are next-generation datacenter infrastructure and cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service, and mobile applications. Mark's current board seats include 3PAR, mywaves, Pliant Technology, RNA Networks, Voltage Security, SpeedDate, and Schooner Information Technology.

Prior to joining Menlo Ventures, Mark was a product manager for Oracle Corporation's Massively Parallel Processing Group. In this role, he was part of the team that developed and deployed one of the first true massively parallel and multi-threaded commercial software offerings—the Oracle Parallel Server. Eventually, Mark started and managed a consulting group at Oracle dedicated to customers of this product. Mark then went on to work for Netscape Communications Corporation from the first year of the company's inception through its IPO.

Mark is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding a BS degree in Physics and Electrical Engineering, and of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he received his MBA degree. He currently serves on the Dean's Advisory Council of the MIT School of Science.

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James Wei
3PAR Board Member
Director

James Wei James Wei has served as a member of the 3PAR Board of Directors since May 1999. Since September 1996, Mr. Wei has served as General Partner and Co-Founder of Worldview Technology Partners, a venture capital investment firm. Mr. Wei holds a BS degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.




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Chris Paisley
3PAR Board Member
Director

Chris Paisley Chris Paisley currently serves as the Dean's Executive Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Much of his career was spent at 3Com, where he held the position of Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. During his 15 years at 3Com, the company grew from $50 million to nearly $6 billion in annual sales, ranking in the top 300 on the Fortune-500 list of companies at the time of his departure.

Chris holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a member of the Financial Executives Institute and a member of the Board of Directors for Electronics for Imaging, Inc., and Volterra Semiconductor Corporation.

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Mark Jung
3PAR Board Member
Director

Mark Jung Mark Jung has spent the past twenty years as a successful internet CEO and entrepreneur. Most recently, Mark served as the chief executive officer and a board member of Vudu, Inc., a provider of digital home entertainment and interactive television services. Prior to Vudu, Mark was the Chief Operating Officer of Fox Interactive Media and was responsible for the day-to-day operations of all of its properties including MySpace, IGN Entertainment, FoxSports.com, Scout Media, and AmericanIdol.com. Prior to Fox Interactive Media, Mark was the co-founder and CEO of IGN Entertainment, a leading Internet media and services company for video gaming and other forms of digital entertainment. Mark led IGN's sale to NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox Interactive Media, for $650 million in October 2005. Prior to joining IGN, Mark was the co-founder and CEO of Worldtalk Corporation, an Internet security company that he took public in 1996 and which has since merged with Tumbleweed Communications.

Mark holds an MBA degree from Stanford Business School and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He is an active member of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO).

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Michael Sheridan
3PAR Board Member
Director

Michael Sheridan Michael Sheridan brings a unique perspective to 3PAR by drawing on his experience in several key leadership positions within successful Web 2.0, Internet entertainment, and Internet security organizations. Prior to joining the 3PAR Board of Directors, Michael served as the CFO of Facebook Inc., a Web-based social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, families, and coworkers. Michael also served as the CFO of IGN Entertainment, Inc., a leading Internet media and services provider focused on the video game and entertainment enthusiast markets. As an executive officer of SonicWALL, Inc., an Internet security appliance provider, Michael served in various roles including CFO, Chief Operating Officer, and Senior Vice President of Strategy. He holds a BS degree in Commerce from Santa Clara University.

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Michael M. Clair
3PAR Board Member
Director

Michael M. ClairA technology investor and consultant to Silicon Valley companies, Michael M. Clair has worked in the computer and communications industries for over 30 years. Michael is currently the Chairman of Phoenix Technologies, a Silicon Valley software company specializing in core PC software and PC virtualization solutions. He was appointed to the Phoenix Technologies Board of Directors in August 2007 before being elected Chairman in January 2008. On the board at Phonenix, he chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee.

Michael is also currently on the Board of Directors at Corefino, Inc., VT&T, and NDS Surgical Imaging as well as the NCGA Foundation and the West Coast Board of the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

Early in his career, Michael held executive positions at Tymshare and ROLM Corporation and was a founder and senior vice president of marketing and sales at SynOptics Communications (Bay Networks). From 1996 until its sale to Nokia in 2006, Michael was Chairman of the Board of Intellisync Corporation.

Michael holds a BS degree in Business and Finance and an MBA degree in Operations Research from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Stephen M. Smith
3PAR Board Member
Director

Stephen SmithThe current President and CEO of Equinix, Inc., Stephen M. Smith sits on the 3PAR Board of Directors as well as its Compensation Committee.

Stephen joined Equinix from Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), where he served as Senior Vice President of HP Services. At HP, he was responsible for managing the organization’s Consulting and Integration, Managed Services, and Technology Deployment and Support business groups. Prior to joining HP, Stephen served as Vice President of Global Professional and Managed Services at Lucent Technologies. He also held various positions during his sixteen years with Electronic Data Systems Corporation, including Chief Sales Officer, President of EDS Asia-Pacific, and President of EDS Western Region.

Stephen also served in the US Army for eight years where, among other roles, he was aide-de-camp to the office of the commander in chief of the US Armed Forces in the Pacific.

Stephen graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point and holds a BS degree in Engineering.

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