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Michael P.
Esposito, Jr. was elected to
Tempra’s Board of Directors in January 2009. He has
served as the Chairman of the Boad of Syncora Holdings,
Ltd., a financial services provider, since July 2006.
Mr. Esposito previously served as Chairman of the Board
of XL Capital, Ltd., a re-insurance company, from April
1995 to December 2007. From 1961 to 1995, Mr. Esposito
held various positions at Chase Manhattan Corporation
and The Chase Manhattan Bank NA, including Chief
Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. He
serves as a director of Forest City Enterprises. Mr.
Esposito obtained a BBA degree in Marketing from the
University of Notre Dame in 1961 and an MBA degree from
New York University in 1967.


Burton 'Skip' Sack is Chairman of the National Restaurant Association’s Board of Directors. Sack currently is the chairman and partner of Classic Restaurant Concepts, which operates Irish pub-style restaurants in the Boston area. Sack was elected as a voting director to the Association’s board in May 1995 and served in that position continuously until he was tapped for officer service in 2002, ascending through the officer ranks, serving as treasurer and vice chairman. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Sack entered the School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration at Cornell University. After graduation, Sack joined the Howard Johnson Co. working his way up to senior vice president for corporate development, real estate architecture, design and construction. In 1983, Sack left Howard Johnson’s and acquired the Red Coach Grill division, a chain of 15 dinner-house restaurants. In 1984, he gained the New England franchise rights for Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar restaurants and in 1986 opened the first Applebee’s and inn October 1994 merged his company with Applebee’s International Inc. At the time, his company, Pub Ventures of New England Inc., operated in New England. After the merger closed, Skip became executive vice president of Applebee’s International. Today, he is a member of the company’s board of directors.


Maurice
A. Singer was elected to
Tempra’s Board of Directors in March 2009. He has served
since 1991 as President of Riviera Capital Management,
an investment advisory firm that provides strategic
asset allocation analysis and consulting services on
operations, marketing and strategic planning and manages
funds for individuals. Mr. Singer previously served as
Executive Vice President of Fries Entertainment from
1989 to 1991, Senior Vice President of Home Box Office
from 1982 to 1989 and Senior Vice President of Columbia
Pictures Corp. from1971 to 1981. Mr. Singer served as a
Director of Skylink Aviation until recently when it was
acquired by the Apollo Group. Mr. Singer has also served
as a director on the boards of several start-up
companies. Mr. Singer obtained a B.A. in English and
Economics from the University of Vermont in 1963.


Barney J. Guarino is a founder of the Company. He has been a director since the Company's inception in 1991, served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer until January 2000, as President since February 1994 and as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since November 1998. From May 1991 to January 1993, Mr. Guarino also served as Vice President of The Financial Investment Group Inc. From 1986 to 1991, he was employed with Merrill Lynch working with the divisions of Investment Banking, Business Brokerage and Valuation, Venture Capital, Insurance, Retail, Institutional Sales, Asset Management and Financial Planning. Prior to 1986, he served as a Financial Consultant at Shearson-Lehman Bros. and was responsible for retail and institutional sales including managed commodities futures and securities accounts. Mr. Guarino holds a Bachelors Degree from St. John’s University.


R. Peter Lake, CPA has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer since January 2000. Mr. Lake has run his own CPA firm and consulting practice since 1992. From 1987 to 1992 he was Vice President of Finance, then President, of Cymbolic Sciences Inc., a multinational manufacturing company in the laser imaging industry. Prior to 1987, Mr. Lake held various financial positions for Wausau Paper Mills Company, Dataproducts Corporation and Kimberly-Clark Corporation.


Cullen M. Sabin, Ph.D. is a co-inventor of the Tempra technologies. He has been Senior Vice President of Research and Development since April 1997. From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Sabin was consulting for several organizations on various projects. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Director and research engineer for International Thermal Packaging, Inc. From 1963 to 1989, Dr. Sabin served as Vice President of Geoscience Ltd. of Solana Beach, California where he researched ocean thermal energy heat transfer, solar energy heat transfer, boiling heat transfer to liquid metals and organics, dynamics of compact power systems, hypersonic heat transfer, thermal and electronic instrumentation, heat flux, vaporizer design and electronic instrumentation standards. Prior to 1963, Dr. Sabin was a research assistant at Stanford University (where he received his Ph.D.) studying turbulent free shear flows, hot wire anemometry and electronics instrumentation. From 1957 to 1960, he was an aeronautical engineer for General Dynamics Corporation in specialty shock tube dynamics, shock wave instrumentation, and free molecular flows. Prior to 1962 Dr. Sabin was a project engineer for Ballistics Research Laboratories researching aerodynamics of projectiles, interior ballistics of guns and ballistic range instrumentation, and a research engineer for Ames Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) specializing in ballistics of hypervelocity guns. Dr. Sabin has written a book and has published more than 70 scientific memos, bulletins and reports.


Jay Messer has served as Senior Vice-President/Corporate Development since October 2001. Prior to joining Tempra, from 1983 to present, Mr. Messer was President of Stonearch Corporation, a consulting firm that specialized in raising venture capital and developing strategic business alliances. He has served as a business consultant to such companies as USAA, Ford Motor Company, Arthur Andersen & Company and a number of Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Stonearch Corporation, from 1975 to 1983, Mr. Messer was Chairman of United Trust Fund, a leading real estate investment fund that developed in excess of two billion dollars of commercial real estate. From 1963 to 1975 Mr. Messer was Vice-President, Director of Corporate Development for the Howard Johnson Company. During that period he directed the strategic and tactical planning for the development and licensing of hundreds of restaurants and hotels across the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Messer holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from New York Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University.

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