Charlie Hoke - Chairman of the Board
Mohan Warrior - Chief Executive Officer
Keith Crandell - ARCH Venture Partners
Russ Johnson - KPL Ventures

Charlie Hoke began his career in Banking, rising to Senior Vice President of Firstar Bank. He then completed a leveraged buyout of the LCD division of Hamlin, Inc. In an eight year period, Standish LCD grew from $8M to $36M in revenue and held significant market share in the rugged/outdoor LCD market. In 1997, Mr. Hoke sold Standish Industries to Planar Systems, a public display company based in Beaverton, Oregon. He served as Vice President and General Manager of the components division, a $110M global display business, until his departure in August 1999. Mr. Hoke was the original investor in Alfalight and currently serves on multiple boards.

Mr. Hoke has a BA in economics from UW-Milwaukee and an MBA from Marquette.

Keith Crandell is a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners, having joined ARCH at its founding. He previously served as Senior Manager with ARCH Development Corporation with responsibilities for ARCH Venture Fund I’s activities at Argonne National Laboratory.

Mr. Crandell has played a key role in the formation and initial funding round of physical materials companies: Alfalight, Eichrom Industries, Nanophase Technologies (NANX), and Illinois Superconductor (ISCO). He was also responsible for investments in information and communications technology companies: Apropos Technology (APRS), Quarry Technologies, Teach.com, and CelebrateExpress, among others. He is a director of AlfaLight, Apropos, CelebrateExpress and Quarry.

Prior to joining ARCH in 1987, Mr. Crandell worked with Hercules, Inc., a specialty chemical and polymer company. He holds an MBA from The University of Chicago, an MS in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a BS in Chemistry from St. Lawrence University.

Mr. Johnson is currently a partner with KPL Ventures in Menlo Park, Calif. From 1998 through 2000 Russ served as the Senior Vice-President of Global Sales and Marketing for JDS Uniphase. During that period he was responsible for the formation of a worldwide sales organization and an integrated marketing program as well as playing an active roll in companies M&A activities. Prior to joining JDS Uniphase, Russ spent over twenty years with the Hewlett Packard Company (now Agilent Technologies) in a variety of marketing, operational, and international business roles. These included rolls in RF and microwave instrumentation, Computer Aided Engineering, and integrated circuits, in optical instrumentation, and in wireless network management. He was also, in 1986, the founding manager of the HP Asia Pacific Marketing Center in Hong Kong.

Mr. Johnson has a BSEE from New Mexico State University and an MBA from Purdue University.