CLASS I — TERM TO EXPIRE AT THE 2005 ANNUAL
MEETING
Name
Age
Principal Occupation and Other Information
John Kang
40
John Kang has been our Chief Executive Officer
and President since June 2001 and has been a director since
1994. From December 1994 to December 2000, he served as Chairman
of our board of directors in a non-employee capacity, and from
December 2000 to June 2001, he served as Chairman of our board
of directors in an employee capacity. From July 1996 to
September 2000, Mr. Kang served variously as Chief
Executive Officer, President, and a director of Medical Manager
Corporation, a public company traded on the Nasdaq National
Market until its sale in September 2000 to WebMD Corporation.
From 1988 to 1995, he was Chairman of the board of directors of
Clayton Group, Inc., a private company engaged in the
distribution of waterworks equipment. Mr. Kang received a
B.A. degree in Economics from Harvard College in 1985.
Mr. Kang is the brother of James Kang, the Chairman of our
board of directors.
William Johnson, Ph.D.
54
William Johnson, Ph.D.
,
has served as the
Vice Chairman of our board of directors since June 2000 and has
been employed as our executive Vice Chairman, Technology, since
October 2001. Since 1997, Professor Johnson has been the Mettler
Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics at Caltech. He held
a Visiting Professor appointment at the Metal Physics Institute
in Gottingen, Germany (1983) and received a Von Humbolt
Distinguished Scientist Fellowship in Gottingen (1988). He is
the 1995 recipient of the TMS/AIME Hume Rothery Award for his
experimental work. He received a B.A. degree in Physics from
Hamilton College and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from
Caltech. He spent two years at IBM’s Research Center
(1975-1977). At Caltech, Professor Johnson directed the research
that led to the discovery of our bulk Liquidmetal alloy.
Tjoa Thian Song
38
Tjoa Thian Song has served as a director since
1996. Since 1995, Mr. Tjoa has been the Executive Director of
Greatland Company Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based distributor and
manufacturer of tobacco products. Since 1972, Greatland Company
has been the international distributor for P.T.Gudang Garam, an
Indonesian cigarette manufacturer listed on the Jakarta Stock
Exchange. Mr. Tjoa received his B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 and
also received an M.B.A. degree from the National University of
Singapore.
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