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Board of Directors

Stephen C. Kiely
Chairman

Steve KielyMr. Kiely joined Cray's Board in December 1999, was appointed Lead Director in January 2005 and was appointed non-executive Chairman in August 2005. From 1999 to July 2008, he was Chairman of Stratus Technologies Inc., a provider of fault tolerant computer servers, technologies and services. Mr. Kiely served as Chief Executive Officer of Stratus Technologies from 1999 through June 2003. Mr. Kiely joined Stratus in 1994 and held various executive positions, becoming President of the Stratus Enterprise Computer division in 1998. Prior to joining Stratus, Mr. Kiely held a number of executive positions with several information technology companies, including EON Corporation, Bull Information Systems, Prisma, Inc., Prime Computer and IBM. Mr. Kiely is a director of Stratus Technologies and a past member of the Advisory Council for the School of Engineering at Rice University, has served as a board member of the Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation and was a member of an advisory board to the President of the State University of New York at New Paltz. Mr. Kiely received his B.A. from Fairfield University and his M.S. in Management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

William C. Blake
Director

William C. Blake Mr. Blake joined the Cray Board in June 2006. Mr. Blake is a 25-year veteran of the High Performance Computing industry. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Supercomputing, Inc., a software company that develops and sells an interactive parallel computing platform that extends existing desktop simulation tools for parallel computing on a spectrum of computing architectures. Before assuming this position in January 2007, he served as Senior Vice President, Product Development of Netezza Corporation, which develops, markets and sells data warehouse appliances. Prior to joining Netezza in 2002, he was with Compaq Computer Corporation for nine years, managing both Compaq's worldwide High Performance Technical Computing business and its software development group from 1996 to 2002, which included being responsible for compiler development for the Alpha processor; from 1993 to 1996 he was Compaq's director of software products development and long-range operating system strategy. Mr. Blake previously held various key engineering management positions with Digital Equipment Corporation from 1981 to 1993. Mr. Blake is a member of the Board of Directors of Etnus, Inc., a provider of debugging and analysis solutions for complex computer codes, and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery. He received his B.S. degree from Lowell Technological Institute.

John B. Jones, Jr.
Director

John B. Jones, Jr Mr. Jones joined the Cray Board in December 2004. He was a leading high technology equity research analyst for nearly twenty years. Until his retirement in the fall of 2004, he was a Senior Managing Director at Schwab SoundView Capital Markets. He joined SoundView in 2002 as a Senior Equity Research Analyst. From 1992 to 2002, Mr. Jones was a Managing Director and Senior Analyst at Salomon Brothers, Salomon Smith Barney and Citibank, where he covered the Server and Enterprise Hardware, Printer and Test and Measurement industries. From 1985 to 1992, he was a partner and senior analyst at Montgomery Securities. Prior to his career as an equity research analyst, Mr. Jones held various positions in the computer industry at Stratus Computer, Wang Laboratories and IBM. He is a director of Stratus Technologies Inc., a provider of fault tolerant computer servers, technologies and services. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Oregon.

Frank L. Lederman
Director

Frank L. Lederman Dr. Lederman joined Cray's Board in May 2004. He served as a Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Alcoa, Inc., from 1995 to his retirement in 2002. From 1988 to 1995 Dr. Lederman was with Toronto-based Noranda Inc., where he served as Senior Vice President, Technology. His responsibilities included directing the Noranda Technology Center in Montreal. Before joining Noranda, he was with General Electric Company from 1976 to 1988 serving in a number of positions in management and as a physicist, including as manager of electronics research programs and resources in the Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. Dr. Lederman received a B.S. and M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sally G. Narodick
Director

Sally G. Narodick Ms. Narodick joined Cray's Board in October 2004. She is a retired educational technology and e-learning consultant. From 2000 to 2004, she was President of Narodick Consulting, an e-learning consulting firm. From 1998 to 2000, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Apex Online Learning, an Internet educational software company. Previously, Ms. Narodick served as an education technology consultant, both independently and for the Consumer Division of IBM from 1996 to 1998. From 1989 to 1996, Ms. Narodick served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edmark Corporation, an educational software company sold to IBM in 1996. From 1973 to 1987, she served in a variety of financial management capacities at Seafirst Corporation and Seafirst Bank, and was a securities analyst at Paine Webber from 1970 to 1973. She also serves as a Board member of Penford Corporation, Puget Energy, Inc., Solutia Inc. and SumTotal Systems. Ms. Narodick chairs the audit committee of Puget Energy, Inc., and is a member of the audit committee of Solutia Inc. A graduate of Boston University, Ms. Narodick earned an M.A. in Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Daniel C. Regis
Director

Daniel C. Regis Mr. Regis joined Cray's Board in April 2003. He currently is Managing Director of Digital Partners, a venture capital fund specializing in Northwest emerging technology companies, which he co-founded in 2000. From 1996 to 1999, he was President of Kirlan Venture Capital, Inc., where he managed similarly focused technology funds. Prior to that, Mr. Regis spent over 30 years with Price Waterhouse LLP, including serving as managing partner of the Seattle office and previously of the Northwest and Portland, Oregon offices. He is a director of Columbia Banking System, Inc., and Chairman of Art Technology Group, Inc. He is a member of the audit committees of Columbia Banking Systems, Inc. and Art Technology Group, Inc. He received his B.S. from Seattle University.

Stephen C. Richards
Director

Stephen C. Richards Mr. Richards joined Cray's Board in October 2004 and is currently a private investor. Previously he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of McAfee, Inc., the leading provider of intrusion prevention and risk management solutions, a position he held for four years until his retirement in December 2004. He served as Chief Online Trading Officer of E*TRADE Group, Inc., a position he held from March 1999 to June 2000. From 1998 to February 1999, he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and New Ventures at E*TRADE, following two years as E*TRADE's Senior Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Prior to joining E*TRADE in April 1996, he was Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Correspondent Clearing at Bear Stearns & Companies, Inc., Vice President/Deputy Controller of Becker Paribas and First Vice President/Controller of Jefferies and Company, Inc. Mr. Richards is a member of the Board of Directors of Tradestation Group Inc., and Zantaz, Inc., and is a trustee for the UC Davis Foundation. Mr. Richards is a Certified Public Accountant. He received a B.A. from the University of California at Davis and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Peter J. Ungaro
Director

Peter J. Ungaro Mr. Ungaro, a member of Cray's Board since August 2005, also serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer and President. Prior to his appointment as President in March 2005, and CEO in August 2005, Mr. Ungaro served as Senior Vice President responsible for sales, marketing and service. In this role Mr. Ungaro was responsible for creating and implementing Cray's worldwide sales and marketing strategy, expanding opportunities for current and future Cray products, collaborating closely with product development and other technical leaders, enhancing the capabilities of Cray's global sales force, and leading service and support for Cray's customers around the world. Mr. Ungaro previously served as Vice President of Worldwide Deep Computing Sales for IBM. In that role, he led global sales of all IBM server and storage products for high performance computing, life sciences, digital media and business intelligence markets. Ungaro coordinated IBM solutions teams that included sales, technical, marketing and product development personnel. Prior to that assignment, he was IBM's Vice President of Sales, Worldwide High Performance Computing. He also held a variety of other sales leadership positions since joining IBM in 1991. Mr. Ungaro received a B.A. from Washington State University.

 
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