KaZaK Composites

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MANAGEMENT TEAM

				Dr. Jerry Fanucci - President, CTO Dr. Fanucci is a MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Ph.D, where he also earned a M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering. He graduated with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from West Virginia university, first in a class of 4,000. Jerry has over 25 years experience in composite design, material selection and development of unusual, automated composite processing systems. He has considerable background in military application of composites, including management of development efforts for military shelters requiring ballistic protection while a Senior Technical Specialist at the US Army Natick RDEC. He founded KaZaK in 1992, principally working on SBIR contract awards. The company has excelled over the years in solving complex materials applications challenges and has built a solid R & D reputation in technical military circles. Dr. Fanucci has many patents in the area of composites and pultrusion.

				John Schickling - Executive Vice President, COO & CFO Mr. Schickling brings to KaZaK extensive financial and operational experience, for both domestic and international operations. Previously, John was CFO for Phase Forward (Nasdaq: PFWD) a Massachusetts-based global software developer and service provider to the pharmaceutical industry, where he lead the IPO in 2004. Prior to Phase Forward, he was SVP CFO at Mobile Systems International (London), a global software developer and service provider for the telecommunications/cellular industry where he had extensive experience in merger and acquisition activity as well as international operations. Before MSI, he was SVP CFO at PRI Automation - a semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer, where he managed a successful IPO as the company grew from $7.5MM in revenues to an annual run rate of $170MM. He was a founder and COO/CFO of Telesis Systems - a successful CAE/CAD company of the early 1980s. He spent 14 years with General Electric and is a graduate of GE's Financial Management Program. John was a long time faculty member of the Northeastern University Graduate School of Business. He holds an MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts. He is also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. John serves on the Board of Directors of Pharsight Corporation (NASDAQ: PHST) and is on the Board of Trustees of St. Mary's High School in Lynn, MA and he also has been a Board member of KaZaK since its inception.

				Dr. Brian Smith - Director of Engineering Dr. Brian Smith holds a Ph.D and MS in Materials Science & Engineering from the Lehigh University. His undergraduate degree is from Worcester Polytechnical Institute in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Smith brings over 20 years of experience in the material sciences. He has extensive experience in engineering and project management, manufacturing production as well as the commercialization of developing technologies. Previously, Brian was VP of Product Research and Development at Applied Materials Science, Inc. in Concord, MA where he developed a low-cost investment casting process for metal matrix composite materials. Prior to Applied Materials Sciences, he was Manager, Materials & Process Engineering at Starmet Corporation, and prior to Starmet, he was a research engineer at Nuclear Metals, Inc.

				Rick Balonis -Director of Manufacturing Operations Rick currently manages KaZaK Composites' facilities in Hudson, NH which comprises both KaZaK's composite R and D and manufacturing operations. He has over 18 years experience in composite design and processing, with particular expertise in pultrusion, braiding and RTM. Rick has managed numerous research programs developing high-performance products for the aerospace, military and commercial markets. His speciality is in large and unusual composite pultrusion processing, such as a 3 to 20 foot adjustable composite aircraft maintenance stand, the MERWS composite rigid wall shelter, Navy CVN polyurethane flexible stanchion and large naval ship structures. Prior to working at KaZaK, Rick was involved in several product development projects, including the development of sporting goods, fire safety equipment and automotive components. In those roles, Rick managed the production processes which include polyurethane foam injection, proprietary computer automated 2-D and 3-D braiding, vacuum assisted resin transfer molding, pultrusion, machining, finishing and testing. Rick has B.S. and M.S. in Materials Engineering from Drexel University in 1991. His graduate research involved the investigation the impact performance of 3D-reinforced composite panels versus typical laminate constructions.

				Michael Yeats - Director of Product Marketing Before joining KaZaK, Michael spent 10 years in the FRP composites industry. The majority of Michael's experience is in managing the development and commercialization of new composites technologies and products for infrastructure and government markets. Most recently Michael was the Director of Engineering and Director of the Marine Fabrication Business Unit for Crane Materials International where he managed the acquisition and operations of a marine fabrication company and built engineering and commercialization teams who successfully launched, supported, and expanded several new and innovative infrastructure product lines. Prior to CMI, Michael managed business development, product development, and engineering for several different pultrusion and pultrusion technology companies including Diversified Composites, Inc. and Pultronex Corporation. He is also a member of several professional engineering organizations and has frequently presented at industry events such as the World Pultrusion Conference. Michael is a Civil Engineering graduate of McGill University.

				Susan Ricci - Director of Human Resources Ms. Ricci is responsible for managing all aspects of human resources including employee relations, benefits administration, policy development, and recruiting. She has over twenty years of human resources experience in health care, manufacturing and service industries. Prior to KaZaK, Susan worked for over 10 years managing human resource functions in the healthcare industry. In addition, she has held various human resources positions in the high tech, manufacturing and insurance industries. Ms. Ricci received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Massachusetts.