People: Giga-tronics Inc (GIGA.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Garrett Garrettson	69	2008	Independent Chairman of the Board
John Regazzi	57	2010	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Jeffrey Lum	66	2007	Chief Technology Officer; President of ASCOR Inc.
Gordon Almquist	62	2012	Independent Director
James Cole	69	1994	Independent Director
Kenneth Harvey	48	2002	Independent Director
Lutz Henckels	71	2011	Independent Director
William Thompson	47	2011	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Garrett Garrettson	Dr. Garrett A. Garrettson serves as an Independent Chairman of the Board of Giga-tronics, Inc., since February 2008. Dr. Garrettson is currently a Managing Director of daVinci Capital Group and President of G. Garrettson Consulting LLC, providing management consulting to public and private companies. From December 2005 until January 2008 Dr. Garrettson was President and CEO of Fresco Technologies, a private digital imaging company, and from November 2001 until September 2004, he was President and CEO of Clairvoyante, a private company that developed and licensed critical technology to the flat panel display industry. From 1996 until 2002, he held the position of Chairman, and before that President & CEO, of Spectrian Corporation, a public company that developed, manufactured and sold microwave telecommunications infrastructure equipment and semiconductors. Before Spectrian he spent ten years in the data storage industry as President & CEO of Censtor Corporation, a Vice President at Seagate Technology and a Vice President at Control Data. He began his career as a Director at HP Laboratories after being an Assistant Professor of Physics, Naval Postgraduate School. He was educated at Stanford in Engineering Physics, receiving his PhD in Nuclear Engineering. In addition to being a Director of Giga-tronics, he is a Director of Iridex (IRIX) and Purdy Electronics, a private company.
John Regazzi	Mr. John R. Regazzi serves s President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Giga-tronics, Inc. Mr. Regazzi has been Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Company since April 2006. Mr. Regazzi had been President and General Manager of Instrument Division since August 2005, and prior to that, was Vice President of Operations for Instrument Division from October 2004 through August 2005. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Engineering for Instrument Division from June 2001 through October 2004. Previous experience includes 22 years at Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies in various design and management positions associated with their microwave sweeper and synthesizer product lines. His final position at Agilent Technologies was as a senior engineering manager.
Jeffrey Lum	Mr. Jeffrey T. Lum serves as Chief Technology Officer of Giga-tronics Inc., since April 2007 and President of ASCOR Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Giga-tronics Inc., since 1987. Mr. Lum founded ASCOR in 1987 and has been President since inception. Mr. Lum was a founder and Vice President of Autek Systems Corporation, a manufacturer of precision waveform analyzers. Mr. Lum is on the Board of Directors for the Santa Clara Aquamaids, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing athletes in synchronized swimming to the Olympic games.
Gordon Almquist	Mr. Gordon A. Almquist serves as an Independent Director of Giga-tronics Inc., since May 17, 2012. He is currently vice president & chief financial officer of WaveConnex, Inc., a semiconductor technology company headquartered in Westlake Village, California. Prior to his employment at WaveConnex, he was a co-founder and vice president finance & administration and secretary of Strix Systems, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of wireless mesh networking equipment. Before Strix, Mr. Almquist was the vice president, finance & administration, chief financial officer, and secretary of Vertel Corporation, a provider of telecommunications network management software and engineering services. His career includes other senior financial management roles at high-growth publicly traded technology companies including vice president, finance and chief financial officer of 3D Systems Corporation. Mr. Almquist is a certified public accountant (inactive) with a bachelor's degree in business administration (accounting) from California State University, Northridge.
James Cole	Mr. James A. Cole serves as an Independent Director of Giga-tronics Inc. He is General Partner of Windward Ventures, General Partner of Spectra Enterprise Associates, Founder and President of Amplica, Inc. and presently a director of Syntricity, CAP Wireless, KOR Electronics and Akatoo, all private companies. Mr. Cole is also a Trustee at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, CA.
Kenneth Harvey	Mr. Kenneth A. Harvey serves as an Independent Director of Giga-tronics Inc. He is President of Peak Consulting Group. Former CEO of Advanced Wireless & Telecom, Vice President and General Manager of Credence Systems Corporation. Co-founded Modulation Instruments where he served as President and CEO.
Lutz Henckels	Dr. Lutz P. Henckels serves as an Independent Director of Giga-tronics Inc., since November 10, 2011. Dr. Henckels joined Guggenheim Venture Partners (now Alara Capital Partners) in 2010 with over 25 years experience managing high-tech businesses. He founded HHB Systems, which provided simulation tools for electronic design automation (EDA) applications. The company was acquired by Daisy Systems in a hostile tender offer. Dr. Henckels subsequently become CEO of LeCroy Corporation, at the time an unprofitable privately held high-energy physics and test and measurement (T&M) business. After LeCroy, Dr. Henckels became the CEO of SyntheSys Research, which produces the BERTScope for serial data applications. Dr. Henckels is the recipient of the first John Fluke Award, along with David Packard, Joe Keithley, and Alex D'Arbeloff. He holds a B.S., M.S. (Electrical Engineering), and Ph.D. (Computer Science) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He graduated Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, and is also a graduate of the OMP program of Harvard Business School. He has been a director of multiple public companies, including Ikos, Inframetrics and LeCroy.
William Thompson	Dr. William Joseph Thompson serves as an Independent Director of Giga-tronics Inc., since November 10, 2011. In August 2000, Dr. Thompson co-founded Circadiant Systems, a venture capital backed test and measurement company that designed and manufactured instrumentation for optical communication. As Chief Technology Officer at Circadiant, he was the product architect, defined system specifications, and at times managed both the development and manufacturing organizations prior to the company’s acquisition by JDS Uniphase Corp in October 2008. He remained at JDS Uniphase as an Engineering Development Director through December 2009, first as part of the Lab & Production Business Unit and later as part of Strategic Marketing. From January 1998 to June 2000, Dr. Thompson served as a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies where he designed analog RF optoelectronic components for high speed optical communication. From 1994 to1998, Dr. Thompson served as a researcher with the University of Maryland and during this time collaborated on fundamental measurements of nature including the search for and discovery of the top quark. Dr. Thompson has consulted with private equity firms as an technical due diligence on prospective investments and in developing new classes of investment vehicles. He co-founded Forefront Analytics in late 2007 and continued there through March 2009. At the time, Forefront operated a quantitative hedge fund and consulted on asset allocation for institutional investors and ultra high net worth families. Dr. Thompson has coauthored ten issued patents and has authored or coauthored over 50 publications. Dr. Thompson graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Physics from UNCC and holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Stony Brook University. He graduated as a Palmer Scholar with an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Garrett Garrettson	54,903
John Regazzi	423,605
Jeffrey Lum	148,824
Gordon Almquist	--
James Cole	--
Kenneth Harvey	--
Lutz Henckels	--
William Thompson	--

As Of 30 Mar 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Garrett Garrettson	0	0
John Regazzi	55,000	20,600
Jeffrey Lum	37,500	58,788
Gordon Almquist	0	0
James Cole	0	0
Kenneth Harvey	0	0
Lutz Henckels	0	0
William Thompson	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
PENTA MICHAEL	200	$1.51
PENTA MICHAEL	300	$1.52
PENTA MICHAEL	200	$1.54
PENTA MICHAEL	200	$1.53
PENTA MICHAEL	100	$1.57
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	400	$1.57
HENCKELS LUTZ P	500	$1.36
HENCKELS LUTZ P	1,000	$1.35
THOMPSON WILLIAM JOSEPH	3,400	$1.48
THOMPSON WILLIAM JOSEPH	2,000	$1.44
THOMPSON WILLIAM JOSEPH	600	$1.35
THOMPSON WILLIAM JOSEPH	620	$1.35
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	1,000	$1.60
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	1,000	$1.60
PENTA MICHAEL	3,000	$1.64
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	100	$1.54
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	300	$1.54
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	1,000	$1.59
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	900	$1.59
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	200	$1.49
GARRETTSON GARRETT A	100	$1.59
THOMPSON WILLIAM JOSEPH	10,000	$1.35
HENCKELS LUTZ P	11,885	$1.02
HENCKELS LUTZ P	300	$0.99
HENCKELS LUTZ P	200	$0.99

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