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Ron BeachOperations

• In 2005 Ron directed our production operations in
  Wichita, overseeing a team of 120 employees and
  50 contractors.
• His efforts to drive operational performance,
  improved inventory management, and higher
  throughput in both ATO and CTO enabled us to
  achieve back-to-back record quarters in Q3 and
  Q4.
• Ron also led his team through many challenging
  circumstances throughout the year, maintaining
  continuity of supply across all 4 quarters.
• Ron's dedication and leadership is a significant
  factor driving the continued quarter-end delivery
  performance that enables our business and gives
  us significant competitive advantage.

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Roger KastenMarketing Competition

• Roger contributes in so many dimensions
  providing information to help our partners win,
  using his personal charisma and knowledge to
  engage and excite partners and their business
  partners about the potential for selling systems
  based on LSI technology, leading and mentoring
  others to grow and learn, and even challenging
  others when he feels we are not taking the right
  direction or moving fast enough.
• Some examples
• Roger has become a trusted partner by all our
  OEMs. The freely exchange information with him,
  knowing that he will assist them while keeping
  their confidence.
• Roger's innovative thinking has led to new ways
  of attacking and defeating the competition. Only
  Roger could make DACStore interesting to
  end-users and a deciding factor in deals.
• I think the key attribute that Roger brings is
  his commitment to excellence and success. When
  Sales asks, Roger delivers. Whether that's flying
  half way around the world, or working nights and
  weekends to dig out some information and find a
  way to make it an LSI advantage in a deal.
• Roger always brings his A Game and total
  commitment.

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Rich KilgourIBM OEM Advocate

• Travels extensively to propagate his product
  line.
• Staunch supporter of driving HPC and software
  business.
• Rich is creative in finding ways to add value for
  his product.
• Rich is a good sport and likes to engage in
  healthy debates with OEM Sales.

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Lanie KrugerIBM Partner Marketing Manager

• Drove Launch on XBB to achieve fastest ever
  product ramp in IBM Storage history
• Developed BCC program with IBM to increase SW
  attached rates over 100 year-to-year growth
• Pushed IBM training and education touch points to
  an all time high

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Marco PozzoniTechnical Consultant

• Marco is apparently a distant cousin of
  Dottarelli and also related to Flavio.
• One day, a big Italian showed up at Europe HR and
  said we had to hire him or else so here he
  is.......
• As one of our first employees in Italy, Marco has
  faced developing his new territory, finding new
  office space and hiring a second employee to work
  with.
• He is passionate about LSI and our products and
  single-handedly kick- started the business in
  Italy.
• Marco and his wife are expecting their first
  child therefore he could not attend club this
  year.

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Rick ReisnerMarketing Product Management

• Rick Reisner was a tireless and relentless
  champion for the XBB product from its conception
  and still today is working to make it the most
  successful product in our company's history.
• XBB was first by over a year as the industry's
  first 4 GB FC array and is the flagship of our
  product line.
• Rick has exemplified the role a product manager
  should play. He has taken the time to go to the
  field supporting launches so he has an
  opportunity to hear the voice of customers,
  partners, and our partners' partners and take
  that back to make the next product even more
  successful.
• XBB has been our most important product over the
  last year sustaining our revenues and profits.
  Much of that success has been because of Rick
  reisner's personal commitment and drive to make
  XBB the product it is.

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Gerry SmithEngineering

• In 2005 Gerry led the RSA efforts to architect
  and develop our MegaRAID SAS programs, and made
  extensive personal sacrifices to ensure our
  success by temporarily relocating to Fremont and
  leading/mentoring the team throughout the
  project.
• He architected the majority of the new features,
  and was responsible for either developing or
  directing most of the substantial changes
  required in the FW, Driver, and Application code.
  
• Gerry also architected and delivered RAID6,
  preparing the way for a production release in
  2006.
• In addition, Gerry contributed significantly
  almost daily in customer status meetings and
  technical discussions pertaining to both new
  product development and field support.

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Dennis SpringerCustomer Support

• Best known as the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) man
  and still is although he and his group have taken
  on a much broader scope of responsibilities
• Working closely with 7x24/Jamie Harris, Product
  Support accepts/manages all RCA requests from our
  OEM partners.  An RCA typically results from a
  serious customer incident that root cause was not
  evident or clearly explainable. 
• Critical Situation Management usually result of
  a customer field incident that was not handled or
  explained to satisfaction of the customer or OEM
  Account team that has been escalated up through
  the OEM Partner Management for quick resolution. 
  Prod Support manages these escalations by being
  the primary focal and communication point for
  Engenio.  They bring  Engenio resources together
  to provide information or take required action to
  close the Crit Sit.
• Manage the Apps Eng Lab that provides capability
  to test/evaluate pre-release products to provide
  support to our OEM partners as well as
  test/confirm problems that our OEM partners
  experience with this early ship equipment,
  test/recreate problems that our OEM partners are
  seeing with released products in field and drives
  fixes back into Engineering for resolution.
• Manage the creation of fixes in current and
  future maintenance code releases on an ongoing
  basis for our Major OEM Partners.
• Has been and continues to be a highly productive
  individual contributor while building a highly
  competent, responsive, and productive Product
  Support team that has filled a much needed and
  critical needed customer support role.