Philip C. Deck

Philip Deck is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of MKS Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software configuration management solutions. Under Mr. Deck's leadership, MKS has become the fastest growing competitor in the software configuration management sector through its transformation from a desktop tools provider to an enterprise solution vendor to the Global 1000. MKS’s renewed product strategy, growth and profitability has positioned it to be the leader enterprise SCM.

Prior to joining MKS, Mr. Deck was Chairman and/or CEO of Certicom Corp from April 1993 to November 1999 establishing it as one of the worldwide leaders in cryptographic technology. Since 1989, Mr. Deck has been a principal of HSD Partners Inc. a Toronto based merchant banking firm that makes investments in, and assists in the management of, growth companies. Mr. Deck is a director of Cymat Corp. and the Canadian Opera Company.

Mr. Deck holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Queens University.

Robert Gibb

Robert Gibb is Vice-Chairman of MKS Inc. Mr. Gibb has served as an outside member of the company's board of directors since May 1994. He is President of The Cypress Group Inc. Mr. Gibb was President and Chief Executive Officer of Telular Canada Inc., a wireless and satellite communications company, from September 1996 to August 1997. He served as a director at Telular Canada Inc. from December 1996 to September 1997. From September 1993 to September 1996, he served as Senior Vice-President of Canadian Liquid Air Ltd., a company engaged in the manufacture and distribution of industrial gases. From May 1990 to December 1992, Mr. Gibb served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Oxygen Ltd., a distributor of industrial gases.

Mr. Gibb holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Manitoba.

Gerald S. Hurlow

Gerald S. Hurlow is managing partner of HSD Partners, Inc. a Toronto based merchant bank. Mr. From 2004 to 2005 he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cygnal Technologies Corporation, a Canadian communication systems integration company that is publicly traded on the TSX. Mr. Hurlow is also Chairman and a director of Super Electric Co.a private company based in Markham, Ontario.

Alex White

Alex White is a founder of the company and has served on the company's Board of Directors from May 1994 until September 2000 and from October 2000 to the present. Mr. White is currently Chief Architect of the company and was also Vice President, Product Development from January 1995 until March 2001. From January 1991 until January 1995, Mr. White served as Vice President, Special Projects of the company. Prior to co-founding MKS, Mr. White was employed at Computer Communications Networks Group, University of Waterloo.

Alex holds a Masters of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.

Christopher S.L. Hoffmann

Christopher S.L. Hoffmann has been a partner with the law firm McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Toronto since 1990. Mr. Hoffmann's practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He appears in the 2003 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as a leading lawyer in the area of corporate finance. Mr. Hoffmann is also a member of the editorial board of "Corporate Governance". Mr. Hoffmann has been a director of numerous publicly traded and private companies. Currently he is a director of Middlefield Growth Fund Limited, The Northern Trust Company, Delta Systems Inc., and Oasis Technology Ltd.

Mr. Hoffmann received his LLB and his BCL from McGill University, as well as a M.Sc. (Operations Research) from the University of California, Berkeley.

J. Ian Giffen

J. Ian Giffen joined the MKS Board in 2001 . Since 1996, Mr. Giffen has been an advisor/director to software companies and technology investment funds. From January 1992 to January 1996, Mr. Giffen was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alias Research Inc. (sold to Silicon Graphics Inc.). Mr. Giffen is currently Chairman of 724 Solutions Inc., a director of Sierra Systems Inc., Descartes Systems Inc., Strategic Vista Inc., and a director/advisor to a number of other private companies. Since 1996, he has advised a number of technology investment funds and has served on the Board of a number of public and private companies including Macromedia Inc., Financial Models Inc., DPS Inc., Open Text Inc., Delano Technology Inc., Algorithmics Inc., DWL Inc., Changepoint Inc. and MGI Software Inc. From 1978-1982, Mr. Giffen worked with KPMG in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Chartered Accountant and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

Howard Gwin

After spending 13 years in senior sales, marketing and operations roles in IBM Corporation and Xerox Corporation, Howard joined PeopleSoft Inc. From November 1994 to January 2000, Howard held a variety of executive management positions including; VP and General Manager Canadian Operations, VP and Managing Director European Operations, SVP International Operations and EVP World Wide Operations. During his tenure, the company grew from <$100M in sales to $1.3B.

Starting in January 2000, Howard was President and COO of Solect Technology Group, a global provider of billing, customer care and service management software for the telecommunications industry. In April 2000, Howard helped orchestrate the sale of Solect to Amdocs Inc. a world leader in customer management billing systems. The transaction (US$1.1B) was the largest ever for a private Canadian software company.

Howard serves on the boards of; Wysdom Inc., Longview Solutions Corp. (Chairman), Mobile Computing Corporation, MaestroCMS Corporation (Chairman), Intelligauge Solutions, MKS Inc., Taleo Corporation, and MEI Group Inc. (Chairman). Howard has previously served on the boards of; Pivotal Corporation, Oasis Technology Ltd. (Chairman), and Changepoint Corporation.

Howard has a bachelor of business administration from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.