Leadership

Steven D. Merrifield, President & CEO

Steven D. Merrifield serves as Ciprico's President and Chief Executive Officer joining the company December 2006. Mr. Merrifield was previously Senior Vice President of Hitachi Storage Technologies (GST), a division of Hitachi, where he was also a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors. As Senior Vice President, Merrifield was in charge of managing the operations and sales organizations of the division following the merger of the IBM Storage Technology Division and Hitachi Hard Drive Company.

From 1978 through the 2003 merger of the two units, Merrifield was a senior executive at IBM, where he served as Vice President of Global Sales of IBM's Technology Group. From 1999 through 2001, he was Vice President in charge of IBM's Dell Strategic Alliance. He also brings experience as IBM's Director of Worldwide Sales and Marketing of the OEM Software Group and the Director of Software and Services for IBM's SMB (Small & Medium Business) Market in Europe.

Andrew Mills, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Development

Andrew Mills serves as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Development, joining Ciprico in December 2006. Mr. Mills previously served as President and CEO of NetCell Corporation, a leading developer of host adapter storage acceleration silicon devices. Prior to NetCell, Mr. Mills spent four years at TDK Semiconductor Corp, in a variety of key positions, the most recent of which was as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadband Communications. Mr. Mills also held strategic marketing positions at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and was a design engineer at Ferranti Computer Systems. He graduated from University College of North Wales with a Bachelor and Master of Electronics and Electrical Engineering degrees.

Monte S. Johnson, Senior Vice President and CFO

Monte S. Johnson joined Ciprico in March 2005 and serves as Senior Vice President  and Chief Financial Officer. Since 2001, Mr. Johnson has been President of MSJ & Associates, LLC, a business consulting company focused on finance, strategic planning and operational consulting for public and private companies. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of Pro Staff Personnel Services. Mr. Johnson also held various financial and management positions at General Electric Company and Honeywell Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Johnson worked at Deloitte & Touche International for 11 years. Mr. Johnson is a CPA and earned his M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management in 1997.

Mark J. Moran, Chief Engineer

Mark J. Moran serves as Ciprico's Chief Engineer, joining the company in November 2006. Mr. Moran comes from IBM where since 2005 he had served as a software architect in the Engineering and Technology Services Group in Rochester, Minnesota. Prior to joining IBM in 2005, he spent 12 years at Computer Network Technology (CNT) in a variety of positions, the most recent of which was as a senior consulting engineer and product architect in CNTs Advanced Technology Group. Mr. Moran was also a lead software engineer for CNTs Advanced Technology Group and a lead software engineer for CNTs UltraNet Engineering Group. He also held senior software engineering positions at Cray Research, Supercomputer Systems, Inc., IBM and Control Data Corporation. He is a graduate of the University Of Minnesota Institute Of Technology with a degree in computer science.