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Charles Liang, Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board

Charles Liang founded Supermicro and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since our inception in September 1993. Mr. Liang has been developing server system architectures and technologies for the past two decades. From July 1991 to August 1993, Mr. Liang was President and Chief Design Engineer of Micro Center Computer Inc., a high-end motherboard design and manufacturing company. From January 1988 to April 1991, Mr. Liang was Senior Design Engineer and Project Leader for Chips & Technologies, Inc., a chipset technology company, and Suntek Information International Group, a system and software development company. Mr. Liang has been granted many server technology patents. Mr. Liang holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science & Technology in Taiwan.

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David Weigand, SVP, Chief Financial Officer

David Weigand was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in February 2021. Before taking on this role, he has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer since May 2018. Prior to his employment with our company, Mr. Weigand was a Vice President at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) from November 2016 until April 2018 and served as Vice President, Tax at Silicon Graphics International, Inc., from September 2013 until its acquisition by HPE in November 2016. Before that, he was Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Renesas Electronics America, a semiconductor company formed by the merger of the semiconductor businesses of NEC Corporation, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi Electric from October 2010 until April 2013, and Vice President, Controller of NEC Electronics America from October 2004 until September 2010. Mr. Weigand holds a M.S. degree in Taxation from the University of Hartford and a B.S. degree in Accounting from San Jose State University and is a Certified Public Accountant in California (Inactive).

Wally Liaw, SVP, Business Development

Mr. Liaw co-founded the Company in 1993. From the Company’s founding until January 2018, Mr. Liaw was an employee and held various executive positions in the Company, including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Corporate Secretary and was a member of the Board of Directors. From June 2020 until April 2021, Mr. Liaw was the president of 2CRSi Corporation, a company headquartered in Strasbourg, France that develops, produces and sells high-performance customized, environmentally-friendly servers. Mr. Liaw returned to the Company as a consultant in May 2021, advising the Company with respect to business development matters. In August 2022, Mr. Liaw returned to full-time employment with the Company as Senior Vice President, Business Development. Mr. Liaw holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan, and a B.S. degree from Taiwan Provincial College of Marine and Oceanic Technology.

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Don Clegg, SVP, Worldwide Sales

Don Clegg is the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Don joined Supermicro in April of 2006 and over a period of 12 years, held a series of increasingly senior sales and marketing roles. Previously, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Worldwide Business Development for Supermicro. Don has 35+ years of direct experience in sales, marketing, product engineering and design. Don started his career as a Design Engineer and evolved from Engineer to Vice President of Sales and Marketing working at several established and startup Silicon Valley system and semiconductor companies including Chips and Technologies, OPTi, Tyan Computer Corporation and others. Don graduated with high honors from Brigham Young University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in Electrical Engineering.

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George Kao, SVP, Operations

Mr. George Kao was promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations in February 2018. George joined Supermicro in October 2016 as the Vice President of Operations. Previously, George served as Vice President of Operations of Pericom Semiconductor Corp. (later sold to Diodes in 2015), starting in October 2006. Mr. Kao also has previously served as COO of Orient Semiconductor Electronics Philippines. George joined there from Santa Clara- based Foveon. He has over 30 years of experience working in the global technology industry. George began his career at National Semiconductor in 1984 in the BipolarLlogic group before moving through senior positions at Integrated Circuit Systems, Synaptics, and Altima, later sold to Broadcom. Mr. Kao holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University.

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