3Tera Board of Directors

Barry X Lynn

Chairman of the Board

Barry Lynn brings to 3Tera hands on experience in data center innovation and deep understanding of enterprise customers and applications. He has over 35 years of executive experience in the IT and financial services sectors in Fortune 100 companies and as an entrepreneur.

Early in his career, Barry was with Wells Fargo, where he was executive vice president and head of Investment Operations before becoming chief information officer (CIO) of Wells Fargo and Company and president of Wells Fargo Technology Services. In 1995, while at Wells Fargo, he built the world's first Internet online banking system. Barry was also president of Wells Fargo Securities Clearance Corp. and founder and president of Wells Fargo Securities, Inc.

Prior to 3Tera Barry founded Be eXceL management, Inc., a management consulting firm, which incubated early stage technology companies. Additionally, Mr. Lynn is a general partner of SVP II, a fully invested venture fund managed by Shoreline Venture Management LLC.

Barry Lynn served as Chairman and CEO of PRIVACI, a provider of anonymous purchasing and personalized services for consumers on the Internet. He was Director of Merant PLC, a public software company, prior to its acquisition by Serena. Mr. Lynn is currently on the Boards of Directors of Alacritech, Attune Systems and Layer 7 Technologies.

Adam Tachner

Adam H. Tachner is Vice President and General Counsel of Atheros Communications, a leading developer of wireless communications semiconductors, systems and related products. Prior to being named General Counsel, he was Atheros's Intellectual Property Counsel.

Before joining Atheros, Adam was an associate attorney with Crosby, Heafy, Roach & May, P.C. (now ReedSmith), where he handled all facets of IP procurement, licensing, and strategic litigation in such diverse technologies as wireless communications and networking, electronic design automation, programmable logic, and semiconductor manufacturing processes.

Adam also was outside patent counsel to the 3Tera founders' previous companies - Object Dynamics and Z-force - from 1995-2000, and helped lay the foundation for their growing global patent portfolio.

Adam holds a J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law, a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Fullerton and a Bachelor of Arts degree in social science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Krasimira Nikolova

Krassy is a Founder of 3TERA. Currently she serve as VP Financing and CFO of the company. She has over 20 years of experience in finance, business administration, human resources and project management. Krassy brings to 3TERA a unique blend of expertise in early-stage companies, including funding, management and human resources. One of her key strengths is implementing sophisticated, yet low-overhead systems for planning, accounting, metrics-based financial and management controls, and Board reporting.

Krassy has founded four companies. At 3TERA, she is responsible for finances, human resources and vendor management. She has managed the company formation, developed financial models, budgets and projections for the business plan, and also handled the due diligence and closing of the company's funding. Prior to 3TERA, Krassy co-founded Z-force, where she served as VP Finance from its inception through April 2002.

Prior to Z-force, she co-founded Object Dynamics, a network software company, and served as CFO from the company's inception in 1993 until 1999. Prior to Object Dynamics, Krassy co-founded System Research, an infrastructure software company and one of the first 50 private enterprises in Bulgaria. Before System Research, Krassy managed human resources for Sofproekt, the leading engineering firm in Bulgaria with over 2500 employees.

She started her career as a rank and file customs officer and rapidly advanced through the system to the position of second in command at the Sofia International Airport customs service, the second largest in the country.

Krassy holds the equivalent of a Bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Peter Nickolov

Peter Nickolov is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded four companies. With 11 years of executive experience in startups developing highly innovative products and over 20 years of software development experience, Mr. Nickolov is a recognized expert in the areas of operating systems, real-time software, networking and storage. He has authored 24 patents and has over 30 innovations in the areas of operating systems, multithreading, kernel mode and real-time software, network protocols, file systems and computing resource aggregation.

As the President and COO of 3TERA, Peter is in charge of day to day business and operations of the company. He is one of the principal inventors of 3TERA's core technology.

Prior to 3Tera, Peter founded Z-force, a storage networking company that pioneered file switching and NAS aggregation, where he served as vice president of software. He led ZForce's engineering team to the successful delivery of a product that set records for file system performance, scalability and cost efficiency.

Prior to Z-force, Peter founded Object Dynamics, a software company providing network infrastructure software, where he served as VP of Engineering. He also founded System Research, an infrastructure software company, where he developed the ProLink network operating system.

Peter holds the equivalent of a Bachelor degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Sofia State University in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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