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Board of Directors

Chairman

Roy A. Bauer - Mr. Bauer has been CEO of Digitiliti since February, 2009. Previously, Mr. Bauer was the President and COO and Director of Pemstar Inc, a global contract manufacturing company with 4,000 employees and 12 sites worldwide. Mr. Bauer led the successful turn-around (400% shareholder return) to sustained profitability after 3 consecutive years of losses and a NASDAQ delisting. Roy spent 24 years with IBM Corporation and played a key role in developing the small hard-file storage product business. He also created the successful change strategies that transformed a major IBM product development organization from a product-driven to market-driven culture, introducing the highly successful AS/400 system in record time. As the Director of Market-Driven Quality at IBM Rochester, Mr. Bauer established many leadership Market-Driven Quality initiatives throughout IBM and was the architect of IBM Rochester's application that won the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Mr. Bauer is an author of three books on organizational transformation, strategy, and quality and an internationally known management consultant and speaker. One of his unique consulting experiences was creating the information technology process design and architecture for the Nagano and Sydney Olympic Games. Roy has appeared on syndicated television programs and has been profiled in the Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Wall Street Journal. He has been interviewed and quoted in numerous business and industry publications, including Fortune, Newsweek International, Machine Design, Electronic Business, and Industry Week.


Board Members

Karen Gilles Larson - Ms. Larson retired in 2007 after nearly 10 years as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Synovis Life Technologies, a publicly-held medical device company. Ms. Larson joined Synovis (at the time called Bio-Vascular, Inc.) in 1989 as its Director of Finance and Administration. She was promoted to the positions of Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. Ms. Larson filled those capacities until July of 1997, when she was named President and Chief Executive Officer. In August of 1997, Ms. Larson was appointed to the Synovis Board of Directors. She continues to serve as a Director of Synovis Life Technologies.

During her tenure at Synovis, Ms. Larson developed and executed a growth and diversification strategy which increased revenue from $9.7M to $58M within five years. She built and mentored a strong executive team resulting in 24 quarters of uninterrupted revenue growth. Ms. Larson moved the Synovis stock listing from OTC market to NASDAQ. Prior to joining Synovis, Ms. Larson was the Controller at VEE Corporation; and previously, she was an accountant with the firm of McGladrey, Hendrickson and Pullen (now called RSM McGladrey). She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota.

Kedar R. Belhe - Mr. Belhe was Senior Director of Business Development at St. Jude Medical, AF Division from 2004 to 2007 and again at the CV Division from 2007 to 2008. St. Jude Medical is a $5B global medical device company with over 20 operations and manufacturing facilities worldwide. At the CV Division, Mr. Belhe was responsible for mergers and acquisitions and technology licensing transactions. The division completed $260M of acquisitions in 2008. At the AF Division, he was responsible for technology strategy planning of the newly created division. He led several initiatives of technology integration within the acquired businesses, as well as technology partnerships with major external companies. Mr. Belhe was Senior Director of Technology Development at St. Jude’s Daig Division from 1999 to 2004.

Mr. Belhe is currently founder and President of Metamodix, a medical device startup company focused on metabolic disorders. He has strong functional expertise in technical, financial and strategic assessment of high-technology value opportunities. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bombay, India, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Benno G. Sand - Mr. Sand currently serves as the Executive Vice President, Business Development, Investor Relations and Secretary at FSI International, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSII), a global supplier of semiconductor wafer-cleaning and resist-processing equipment and technology, and he has served in such positions since January 2000. Mr. Sand also served FSI as Chief Administrative Officer from January 1998 to December 1999, as Chief Financial Officer from October 1990 to January 1998, and as Vice President of Finance from October 1987 to January 1992. Mr. Sand also serves on the board of Mathstar, Inc. (Math: OTC), which is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high-performance programmable logic. He also serves on the boards of several subsidiaries of FSI International and other privately-held companies. Throughout his career, Mr. Sand has served as a director of various public and private companies and several community organizations.

R. M. Rickenbach - Mr. Rickenbach has extensive executive experience managing businesses, start-up to large, involved in technology products and services with a demonstrated track record in both growth and turn-around business situations. His background includes business strategy and partnering, optimizing operations, marketing, leading an IPO process, and merger and acquisition activity. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Cyber Security, which develops and markets software that detects illegal use of desktop computer networks and until January 2009, served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Comtrol Corporation. He is actively involved with family business operations, including FORTEC Mortgage, a high end mortgage origination company, and MLR Ranch, a cattle ranching operation. Rick served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Technology Consultants (ATC), an emerging Learning Management Systems software developer. Led the Corporate Business Development for Fourth Shift Corporation, an $80 Million company that develops and markets Enterprise Resource Planning software aimed at mid-size manufacturers. Rick was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Government Technology Services, Inc. (GTSI), Chantilly, Virginia. GTSI is a personal computer marketing company that is focused on the Government sector. There he led a business strategy that resulted in GTSI pioneering the use of Internet-based Electronic Commerce for product purchasing by the Federal Government. Prior to the tenure at GTSI, he held several executive and management positions with Control Data Corporation.