(in alphabetical order)

A. Blaine Bowman, Director
Blaine Bowman, Chairman of Dionex Corporation, has been with Dionex since 1977, when it was. a $1 million operation. Since then, the company has increased sales and profits every year to sales of more than $259 million. Mr. Bowman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Dionex until July 2002, when he was named Chairman. Before joining Dionex, Mr. Bowman was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company and a product engineer at Motorola Semiconductor Products Division. Mr. Bowman holds a B.S. in Physics from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Sheldon Engelhorn, Chairman
Mr. Engelhorn is an active early-stage private investor in technology and life sciences companies. In 1987, he co-founded NOVEX, a biotechnology research tools company. During his tenure at NOVEX he held senior management positions including Vice President R&D, Executive Vice President Corporate Development, President and CEO. NOVEX achieved $35M in annual sales prior to its merger with Invitrogen in 1999. Prior to founding NOVEX, he held a variety of positions in product development, product support, marketing and field sales at Bio-Rad Laboratories. He began his career at the University of California, San Diego, as a Staff Research Associate in the Metabolic Disease Division of the UCSD medical school. He has multiple publications in chromatography and electrophoresis and holds a number of patents, including patents on NOVEX's key technologies. Mr. Engelhorn sits on the boards of three private early-stage technology companies.

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Richard H. Freyberg, Director
Rich Freyberg is a senior-level executive with more than 30 years experience in Information Technology and Financial Services, and a proven record of accomplishment of applying emerging technology to strategic business problems. Rich was formerly CIO of Schwab Capital Markets, a Managing Director of Syndicated Lending Technology at Bankers Trust and a First Vice President of Retail Technology at Security Pacific. Prior to these he started up several successful software development firms specializing in distributed, mission critical banking applications. He holds Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. Rich is currently on the Advisory Boards of Northstar, Certagon and Mainsoft; and on the Board of Directors of IO Informatics, APCaP and Gold Medal Foundation.

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Robert A. Stanley, Director
Prior to joining IO Informatics, Mr. Stanley was employed (2000-2003) as Chief Information Officer at Biosentients, focused in designing innovative informatics software architectures and software for distributed computing. He also served as Associate Scientist (1998-2000) at Zeitgeist y2k01, Ltd. a Bay Area software development company focused on distributed systems and bio-informatics applications.

Previous experience at New York University's Bruner / Feldman Cognitive Science Laboratory, Academic Computing Facility / Faculty Innovation Center and applied network research labs provide additional academic and professional background for Mr. Stanley's design of the Sentient informatics software architecture.

Robert has received an MA in Sociology of Knowledge (epistemology and ontology) from the University of Chicago and an MA in Advanced Social Theory (ontologies, dynamic structures and networks) from New York University. Mr. Stanley is an elected and active member of several professional organizations, including Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American Medical Informatics Association, and others.

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