Bill Vanderslice  -VP Design Excellence Mr. Vanderslice was employed by IBM from 1964 to March, 2000. From  1992 onward, he held executive positions in the IBM corporate  headquaters.   He was appointed director: Systems, Technology and CBB Integration in 1996 and was responsible for developing and deploying a CBB business process, management system, support tools and metrics to all hardware  business units. Results realized to date include a 2 point ($450)   improvement in gross profit.    From 1992 to 1996, he was Director: Hardware Development Business Process; his leadership led to a 'Bronze' Malcom Baldrige award in 1993.  He also sponsored the $APPEALS and Portfolio Analysis business  process as key elements of IPD. In 1989, Mr. Vanderslice was appointed  Director of technology planning in Technology group. In the period  from 1984 through 1989, he held several management positions in  Microelectronics Division headquarters' staff.    Mr. Vanderslice reported as an executive assistant to the division VP of   Manufacturing and Development from 1983 to 1984.

Shakil Ahmed President & CEO   Bill Vanderslice VP Design Excellence   Yee Ming Ting VP Integrated SYS. Excellence   Shyam Sethi VP Dev/Supply Chain Excellence   Asim Abbasi Chief Technologist          His graduate degrees include,      BS in Engineering, Stevens Institute of      technology. MS in Electrical Engineering,      NY University, MS in Management of      Technology, Sloan School of      Management, MIT.

From 1966 to 1982, Mr. Vanderslice held management positions in  product development related to semiconductor memory products, software CAD, yield and reliability modeling tools for these products. He also managed the design team that demonstrated to the global industry, operability and manufacturing yields of the first memory chip based on what is today known as DRAM technology. He joined IBM Systems Division as a Senior Associate Engineer in October 1964.