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Executive Staff Board of Directors

David Scott
President & Chief Executive Officer

3PAR CEO David Scott David Scott joined 3PAR as President and CEO in January 2001. Over the past seven 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 24 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 U.K.

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Adriel Lares
Vice President of Finance & Chief Financial Officer

3PAR CFO 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
Vice President of Engineering, Founder

3PAR Engineering VP and Founder 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
Chief Technical Officer, Founder

3PAR CTO and Founder 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 degress in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Jim Dawson
Vice President of Worldwide Sales

3PAR VP of Sales Jim Dawson Jim Dawson brings seventeen years of senior sales experience in the storage industry including both direct and indirect sales management positions worldwide. Prior to 3PAR, Jim's background includes executive tenures at Data General and EMC, where he was a part of the start-up team for the CLARiiON business unit and grew the business to over $200 million in sales as the VP of Asia Pacific and later VP of Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Jim also led worldwide sales at Scale Eight from 2000 to 2002 and, most recently, ran strategic sales and business development at storage security start-up Neoscale Systems. In addition to the United States, Jim has lived and worked in Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and London.

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Paul Harvey
Vice President of Customer Services

3PAR Customer Services VP Paul Harvey Paul Harvey brings more than thirty years of customer service experience to 3PAR. Prior to joining 3PAR, he was a Vice President at Lucent Technologies where he managed a global support group and developed and implemented worldwide support logistics, enhanced services portfolio, and education services. Prior to that, he was Senior Director at Amdahl Corporation, leading a global support organization for ten years, during which time he defined and implemented Amdahl's International Support Center. He has also held other customer support positions at Amdahl and at Scientific Data Systems. His aggressive approach to tools-based, remote, proactive support has established Paul as a leader in customer services delivery.

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Craig Nunes
Vice President of Marketing

3PAR Marketing VP 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

3PAR Business Development and Alliances VP 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 from the Haas School of Business and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Randy Gast
Vice President of Corporate Operations

3PAR Operations VP 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

3PAR 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

3PAR Human Resources VP Jeanette 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 in Business Administration and a BS in Sociology/Criminology from San Jose State University.

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Kevin Fong
3PAR Board Member
Non-Executive Chairman & Compensation Committee Chairperson

3PAR Board Member Kevin Fong Kevin Fong is a veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist with almost two decades of experience. He has provided leadership to Mayfield since 1988, during which time he has groomed a new generation of Mayfield leaders and mentored scores of CEOs. Kevin has 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 currently sits on the boards of 3PAR Inc. (where he serves as non-executive chairman), Cemaphore Systems, Fultec, Hammerhead Systems, Mendocino Software, ONStor, and Velocity11.

As one of the most respected ethnic Chinese venture capitalists in the Silicon Valley, Kevin also leads Mayfield's China-based strategy and investments. Prior to joining Mayfield, Kevin was an operating executive at networking company David Systems, Hewlett Packard, and Nortel/Bell Northern Research.

Kevin holds a BS in Elecrical Engineerying from University of California at Berkeley and MBA and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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Mark A. Siegel
3PAR Board Member
Managing Director, Menlo Ventures

3PAR Board Member Mark A. Siegel Prior to joining Menlo Ventures in 1996, Mark Siegel held product management and consulting management positions at Oracle Corporation and worked in business development at Netscape Communications Corporation. At Menlo Ventures, Mark is focused on early-stage software and communications companies. His recent investments and board seats include: 3PAR, Authoria, Covalent Technologies, diCarta, Emptoris, Phiar, Questra, Sitara Networks, and Tera Systems.

Mark is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding a BS in Physics and Electrical Engineering, and of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he received his MBA.

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James Wei
3PAR Board Member
General Partner & Co-Founder, Worldview Technology Partners

3PAR Board Member James Wei James Wei has been a venture capitalist for the past twelve years. He offers deep expertise in the communications and semiconductor industries and a unique insight and expertise in helping startup companies do business worldwide. James currently serves on the Board of Directors for Movaz Networks, Cogent Communications, 3PAR, Commverge Solutions, Tensilica, Force10 Networks, ONStor, XHP, and Stretch. He also works actively with Mirapoint, Catena Networks, and Sipix Imaging. He is also a founder and an investment committee member of Meritech Capital, a late stage information technology fund with $1.8 billion under management.

Before founding Worldview, James was a Fund Manager at JAFCO, where he sponsored investments and developed Asian business development strategies for U.S. technology companies. He was a board member or observer for CommQuest Technologies, MMC Networks, NeoMagic, NVIDIA, and OSI. He also co-sponsored investments in ACC, Advanced Fibre Communications, Corvis, Tellium, Cosine, Oplink, Cyras, Tivoli Systems, Silicon Spice, Ciena, and Synernetics. Prior to JAFCO, James held engineering positions at Sony and IBM.

James 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
Audit Committee Chairperson

3PAR Board Member 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
Nominating & Governance Committee Chairperson

3PAR Board Member Mark Jung Mark Jung has spent the past seventeen years as a successful internet CEO and entrepreneur. Most recently, 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 from Stanford Business School and a BS 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
Audit Committee Member

3PAR Board Member 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 in Commerce from Santa Clara University.

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