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John Reardon, Member, Board of Directors
John Reardon is the Founder of The RTC Group. The RTC Group is a marketing services company devoted to serving the embedded and real-time markets. John founded the company on the premise of developing high quality – low cost leads for the embedded space. The RTC Group currently produces events on five continents and publishes technical journals distributed in 17 countries. The RTC Group also creates custom events for clients like Intel, Microsoft, Wind River Systems, Hitachi, and MontaVista, to name a few. John serves on a number of Boards, including a Dutch corporation, which he founded in 1994, Active Exhibitions and One Stop Systems.
 
 
David Flowers, Member, Board of Directors
David R. Flowers served as chairman and CEO of Pulse Engineering Inc.; a $100 million, San Diego based, NASDAQ traded Electronics Company providing components and modules for advanced digital communications. He was with Pulse Engineering for 20 years.
David’s strong interest in corporate governance lead to his co-founding of the International Forum for Corporate Directors (now Corporate Director’s Forum) and the ChairmensRoundTable. In 2000 he was named corporate director of the year. He was also a co-founder of the Chairmens Round Table (CRT), a “no-fee” organization of former CEOs helping San Diego companies with strategic issues.
David has been an “Angel” investor and regularly helps to advise emerging companies with which he is involved. He has invested in 21 Southern California companies. David has been on One Stop Systems board since May, 2000, serving on the audit and compensation committees.
 
 
Bill Carpenter, Member, Board of Directors
Bill Carpenter served as CEO for TEAL Electronics, a San Diego-based company, for 13 years, which grew to $20 million in revenue under his leadership, selling large custom power subsystems. He received an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from Stanford. He recently served as Interim CEO of two companies, Voyager Systems and DriveCam Video Systems. He currently serves on the boards of three other high technology companies. In addition, Bill serves on the boards of the San Diego Tech Coast Angels, San Diego Social Venture Partners, and San Diego Telecom Council.
 
 
Ken Potashner, Member, Board of Directors
Ken Potashner’s extensive career in the computer industry includes President/CEO/Chairman of SONICblue, a leader in products for the digital media, entertainment, and consumer electronics markets where leading MP3 players and DVRs were brought to market . He also served as President/CEO/Chairman of Maxwell Technologies, where he and his team successfully turned around the company in 1997 while transitioning it from a defense focus to a commercial focus, evidenced by a substantial increase in market capitalization. Prior to leading Maxwell Technologies, Mr. Potashner was executive vice president and general manager of Conner Peripherals Disk Drive Operations, where he helped the company become a leading supplier of hard drives. He also worked in management at Quantum, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), and Texas Instruments. Mr Potashner currently serves on the board of several companies including Newport Corporation, V-audit, HouseRebate.com, and Anycomm Corp. He is an advisor and investor in several other corporations. Mr. Potashner received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Lafayette College and a masters’ degree in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University.

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