Stellar Switches

Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board: Howard Salwen—Mr. Salwen founded Proteon, Inc., a computer network equipment manufacturer, in 1972 and was Chairman of its Board of Directors until it merged with Netrix Corp. in December of 1999. He also served as Chairman of the Board of UltraNet Communications, Inc., which was acquired by RCN Corp. Howard was a member of the Board of Directors of Telco Systems, Inc. from 1987 to 1993 and served as its President and CEO for part of that period. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Turbine Entertainment Software Corporation, a producer of massive multiplayer online games, and Chairman and founder of Audeon Networks, Inc., a network design and implementation company. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Network Communication Council and was its Chairman in 1996.

Director: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd—Mr. Eastlake is co-chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) TRILL Working Group, which is specifying the base protocol to be implemented in Stellar Switches, and is the Editor of that protocol's specification. Mr. Eastlake has seven issued patents, and additional patents pending. From January 2000 until formation of the Company, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Motorola Laboratories. From 1987 to 1990 he was CEO of Transfinite Systems Co., Inc., which designed, manufactured, and sold a hardware and software product interfacing Nintendo game controllers to the Apple Desktop Bus.

Director: Russ Housley—Mr. Housley is the Chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Owner of Vigil Security, LLC. He was formerly a researcher at RSA Labs, Chief Scientist at SPYRUS, and Manager of Information Security Projects at Xerox Special Information Systems. Corporate Officers

Corporate Officers

President and Founder

Donald E. Eastlake 3rd—(See above as Director.)

Chief Financial Officer (Part Time)

Richard E. Clark—Mr. Clark brings thirty years of financial and operating experience to Stellar having served as CFO for many entrepreneurial businesses, including high tech, life sciences, and consumer products. His background includes extensive implementation of management reporting, analytical modeling, motivational compensation plans, and financial and operational systems and processes designed for high growth scale-up. He has negotiated several purchases and dispositions of divisions, subsidiaries and parent corporations as well as helped raise over $100 million in private debt, equity, and IPO proceeds. Mr. Clark began his career practicing as a CPA for Arthur Andersen & Co., received his MBA from the University of Wisconsin, and his BSBA from Northeastern University.

Vice President of Engineering

Seamus Daly—Mr. Daly is an experienced engineering manager and technical leader in the network infrastructure area. He was VP of Engineering for Soapstone Networks, a telecom software development company, and before that Director of Hardware Engineering for the router development company Avici Systems. Earlier experience also includes Director of Hardware Engineering at Acopia Networks. In addition, Mr. Daly holds numerous patents which he acquired during his career with Digital Equipment Corporation.

Director of Marketing Communications

Margaret L. Russell—Ms. Russell has over 25 years experience in high tech, including Manager of Corporate Relations for MIT, Manager of University Relations for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as performing project management and product definition for various software firms. Most recently she was a marketing and sales project manager for Parametric Technology Corporation and chaired their high tech vertical rollout group.

Director of Quality Assurance

Deryl Humphrey—Ms. Humphrey has extensive experience in QA / QC, ISO 9001, and Six Sigma. She re-organized and expanded the quality assurance department of Ennovate Networks, a supplier of VPN networking equipment. She designed the tests and created the documentation leading to ISO 9001 certification of Lucent Technologies products, specifically Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit network management products.

Co-Founder

Jill Eastlake—Ms. Eastlake has over 30 years in the high tech computer industry with a focus on high-quality software deployment. She has managed teams of up to 25 engineers, technical writers, and quality assurance staff, shipping software products at the system, network, programming language, and applications levels. Ms. Eastlake is providing invaluable managerial and planning assistance in the formation of Stellar Switches.