MANAGEMENT

Everyone at ASSET focuses on serving customers. These are the people that lead our efforts to stay that way.

Glenn Woppman - President, CEO and Chairman of the Board

Glenn serves customers by making sure that everyone at ASSET continually strives to increase customer satisfaction. He is in charge of new initiatives, and stays close to the market by spending the majority of his time with customers, prospects, and the people working closest with them. Glenn led the ASSET business at Texas Instruments, so he has been closely involved with boundary scan for 12 years. He holds an MBA from SMU and a BSIE from the University of South Florida.
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Tim Caffee- Vice President Design Validation

Tim Caffee obtained dual degrees, B.S degree in Mathematics and a B.S degree in Computer Science, at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. He is one of the founders at ASSET InterTech, Inc. He has spent the last 16 years working with ASSET’s boundary-scan tools based on IEEE 1149.1 technology. His current focus is to expand ASSET’s core products to add support for silicon instruments to be used in the area of Design Validation. Prior to ASSET, he spent several years at Texas Instruments and held numerous positions in the Defense Group. His office is located in San Jose, California.
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Alan Sguigna - Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Mr. Sguigna has more than 20 years of experience in senior-level general management, marketing, engineering, sales, manufacturing, finance and customer service positions. Before joining ASSET, he worked in the telecom industry. He has had profit and loss responsibility for a $150 million division of Spirent Communications, a supplier of test products and services. Prior to his tenure with Spirent, Mr. Sguigna also served in business development positions with Nortel Networks, overseeing the growth of its voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) products.
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Gerry Morgan - Vice President, Product Development

Gerry serves customers by bringing his many years of hardware and software development expertise to help us accelerate our product development. Gerry worked at Fairchild Semiconductor; for 19 years at test equipment companies, including GenRad® where he led development projects (including the Encompass software that runs on the GENEVA Test System); and recently at Brooks Automation. He holds an MBA from Northeastern University, and a BS and ME in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maine.
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Adam Ley - Chief Technologist

Adam serves customers by ensuring that our application support activity completes the delivery of boundary-scan solutions. Some of you may know Adam since he has been involved with boundary scan since 1991. Adam was the key technical leader in Texas Instruments Logic Products division to drive boundary-scan bus interface and scan support products. Adam is a member of the IEEE 1149.1 working group and is the Standard Technical Editor for the group. He holds a BSEE from Oklahoma State University.
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Arden Bjerkeli - Director of Corporate Applications Support

ASSET's director of corporate application support, Arden Bjerkeli, held various engineering management positions for Compaq Computer Corporation over a 16-year period. While at Compaq, Bjerkeli managed several engineering groups that were responsible for developing and testing new desktop and server computer products. In addition, he served in several testability research and development positions. Prior to Compaq, Bjerkeli was a test manager for Zaisan, Inc., and a lead engineer for Telxon Corp. He has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board of Directors The ASSET Board includes Glenn Woppman and the following outside directors.

Dr. Bill Drobish

Bill serves ASSET shareholders by ensuring that ASSET remains financially stable through fast and profitable growth. He has done this as a founder of his own company (Silicon Systems Inc., now a division of Texas Instruments), and as a Board member at other successful high-tech companies (both public and private). Bill received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Mr. Steven Ho

Mr. Ho is an investment manager at Technology Associates Management Co. (TAMC), Ltd., a venture capital fund management company in Plano, TX. Prior to joining TAMC, he worked in the semiconductor and IT industries, most recently with Cyrix Corp., in microprocessor design, and earlier with Pacific Microtech, a startup venture in PC manufacturing and services. Mr. Ho has a B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, a Master’s Degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Anthony J. LeVecchio

Mr. LeVecchio is the president and owner of The James Group, Inc., a business support and development company in Dallas. At various times during his career, Mr. LeVecchio has acted as both an interim chief financial officer and as a financial oversight executive to assist companies with financial planning, cash management, internal controls, strategic and operating plans, negotiated settlements and stock structures. He has served as CFO of VHA Southwest and Phillips Information Systems. He also worked for Exxon Office Systems and Xerox Corporation. He has a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance from Rollins College.

Mr. Andy Mindlin

Andy serves ASSET shareholders by making sure that we continually improve the way we listen to customers, respond to their concerns and anticipate their needs. Andy does this by drawing on his marketing management experience at Procter & Gamble, and his success helping other high-tech companies market new technologies. Andy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University with a BA in International Economics.

ADVISORS

Dr. Ben Bennetts

Ben serves ASSET shareholders by making sure that we stay on the leading edge of product potential and strategic relationships. He is an internationally recognized expert on Design for Test and Boundary Scan, having served on the original JTAG 1149.1 working group. From his home near London, Ben travels the world delivering seminars to companies adopting these new technologies. Ben also serves customers by drawing on his technical experience at LogicVision, Synopsys, GenRad and Cirrus Computers. Ben received his B.Sc. from Farnborough Technical College, UK and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Southampton University, UK.

Dr. Arnold Gia-Shuh Jang, Ph.D.

Dr. Arnold Gian-Shuh Jang joined Inventec Appliances Corporation (IAC) in Taiwan in October 2004. He is Vice President, Investment and Alliance Management at IAC. IAC is world's leading company in mobile gadget and network appliance space. It provides not only integrated ODM service to 1st-tier CE and IT companies around the world, but also 20+ years of innovations and experience in designing and manufacturing smart handhelds. IAC’s recent product offering ranges from MP3 players, PDAs, GPSs, Scientific Graphic Calculators, to mobile phones.

Arnold Gian-Shuh Jang was formally a Senior Investment Manager of TAMC, Ltd., a venture capital fund management company headquartered in Plano, TX.

Before TAMC, Dr. Jang was Vice President of Intelligent Trading Systems unit of Springfield Financial Advisory in Taipei from August 1993 to March 1999. Dr. Jang was responsible for investment analysis on high-tech sectors, portfolio management, proprietary trading, R&D of intelligent trading decision support systems, designing and optimization of computer software for program trading, and system analysis of real-time performance evaluation systems for portfolio management. He was responsible for managing proprietary equity funds and international hedge funds since 1993. In the midst of the turmoil of Asian financial crisis in 1998, his performance in directional trading was +38%, while the Taiwan stock index was down 22%. As an investment analyst and fund manager specialized at high-tech sectors, Dr. Jang closely followed the market trends, technology innovations, product developments, manufacturing facilities, marketing/sales, and global logistics of major listed companies of high-tech sectors in Taiwan and USA.

Dr. Jang conducted advanced researches on applying computational intelligence for financial markets since 1990. He has published several papers on applying artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and fuzzy logic for financial applications. Dr. Jang chaired the technical session of neural networks and served on the Program Committee of the Second and the Third International Conference on AI Application on Wall Street in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He contributed a chapter entitled "Intelligent Trading of an Emerging Market" in a Wiley Finance Edition book Trading on the Edge, Neural, Genetic, and Fuzzy Systems for Chaotic Financial Markets, which was published in 1994.

From 1993 to 1994, Dr. Jang served as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Management Information System at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan.

Dr. Jang received the Taiwan Fuji Xerox Distinguished Research Award in 1991, the Distinguished Youth Award in 1987, and is a member of Phi Tau Phi and IEEE.

Dr. Jang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, and MSEE in VLSI Computer Aided Design, both from the Graduate School of Electrical Engineering at the National Taiwan University in Taiwan. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering with honors from the Tamkang University in Taiwan.

Mr. Jim Wolfe

Jim joined Red River Ventures in August 2002. Previously, Jim spent eight years at Banc One Capital Partners where he successfully originated, negotiated and managed a portfolio of mezzanine investments in a variety of industries including financial services, environmental consulting, transportation and business services.

Prior to Banc One Capital Partners, Jim held various positions within MBank Dallas' international lending groups developing the bank's portfolio of loans in Latin America and Europe. In addition, he managed the MBank Dallas' commercial syndication efforts within the bank's statewide bank network.

Jim has both a BBA and MBA from Southern Methodist University.