Management Jay Newkirk Mike Smalley Jim Caudle Dean Johnston Beth Butler Benjamin (Pete) F. Harbin III Adrian O'Neil Phillip Wendling	Advisory Board Ralph G. Petroff

Jay Newkirk - President & CEO

Mr. Newkirk has had a distinguished career in computer based management information systems and applied mathematics in the field of commercial and government aerospace applications over 4 decades. He was the co-founder of Computer Systems Technology, Inc. (CST), an information technology support services company and served as the Director of Operations and later managed the Strategic Business Development activity. Following the sale of CST, Mr. Newkirk formed Jay Newkirk Enterprises, Inc. which focuses on three areas: (1) provides professional leadership and business consultation, (2) manages a diverse real estate, business and stock investment portfolio and (3) publishes a series of technology, health and wellness magazines.

Mr. Newkirk received a Bachelor's of Science degree in Mathematics from Lynchburg College and a Graduate degree from the University of Alabama, Huntsville in mathematics and operations research.

Contact: jnewkirk@carinatek.com
 

Mike L. Smalley - Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Smalley is a veteran of the telecommunications industry with over 24 years of experience in a variety of business development and leadership roles. Prior to joining Carina Technology, Mr. Smalley gained valuable industry knowledge during his tenure with Deltacom where he served as Alternate Channel Manager. He has also served as City Director for KMC Telecom, Vice President of Sales and New Business Development for Network Communications Corporation, and Senior Sales Engineer for Hard Engineering. In light of his wealth of experience, Mr. Smalley has made numerous contributions to the telecommunication industry through published articles.

Contact: msmalley@carinatek.com

Jim Caudle - Technical Director

After graduating from college, Mr. Caudle spent three years in the Air Force as an Officer, then joined Teledyne-Brown Engineering in Huntsville. After nine years of employment with Teledyne, he purchased one of their business units and formed Cu Pex, Inc. Four years later, he sold Cu Pex, Inc., purchased three electroplating companies and consolidated them into United Plating, Inc. During this period, he was recruited and hired by Snapper Power Equipment Company as Vice President of Operations. He advanced to President and spent the next six years building Snapper from $50 million to $250 million in annual sales. In 1986, Mr. Caudle returned home to Huntsville and formed several other businesses where he still active today. Mr. Caudle has served on several Boards which were both privately and publicly held.

Mr. Caudle received a degree in Industrial Management from Auburn University.

Contact: jcaudle@carinatek.com

Dean Johnston - Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Johnston has extensive banking and industry experience as a lender and financial officer as well as experience in business development for start-up companies.  He was heavily involved in the development of three successful business ventures prior to joining Carina.  At Carina Technology, Inc. Mr. Johnston is responsible for accounting, procurement, contract administration, and financial planning.  He also serves as liaison to Carina's shareholders.

Mr. Johnston received a Bachelor's of Business Administration and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Alabama.

Contact:  djohnston@carinatek.com
 

Beth Butler - Vice President of Business Operations

Ms. Butler has over twenty years experience in business operations, marketing and business branding and process development.  Ms. Butler previously owned and operated a business consulting company, was a senior salesperson in the outdoor advertising industry and recently was Director of Operations for JNE Publishing, Inc. a print media company.

At Carina, she is responsible for business operations including human resources, contracts, intellectual property coordination, proposal development and facilities management.  As a member of the leadership team, she participates in development of company policy and contributes to the strategic direction of the company.  Ms. Butler holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Birmingham-Southern College and is completing her MBA at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Contact:  bbutler@carinatek.com

Benjamin (Pete) F. Harbin III - Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Prior to joining Carina Technology, Inc., Mr. Harbin worked for more than 20 years in the retail utility market at Huntsville Utilities where he was Operations Superintendent. He was responsible for construction and maintenance for all of the transmission and distribution systems and an annual budget of $14M. Following Huntsville Utilities, Mr. Harbin was Vice President of a small manufacturer and was responsible for design, manufacturing, and national contract negotiations. Additionally, Mr. Harbin formed his own company where he recruited a national team of sales representatives to position his patented products in the marketplace.

Mr. Harbin received a Bachelor's of Science in Management Science from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and is currently involved in the Certified Power Executive program with TVPPA.

Contact: pharbin@carinatek.com

Adrian O'Neil - Vice President of Engineering

Mr. O'Neil has more than 10 years of experience working with and designing software applications and integration packages for electric utilities. Early in his career, Mr. O'Neil worked in the Engineering Department at Ottawa Hydro overseeing the accuracy of their mapping system and storm center. Following his tenure at Ottawa Hydro, Mr. O'Neil moved into the design and development of GIS-based Outage Management and Field Editing Solutions as Director of Software Development at Utility Automation Integrators, Inc. (UAI) in Huntsville.

Mr. O'Neil has been with Carina Technology since 2004 and is responsible for the overall design, development, and integration of Carina's hardware and software products as well as the management direction of the company's Engineering department.  He considers ease of use, reliability, and interoperability with existing utility solutions as core to the software development philosophy at Carina.

Mr. O'Neil received a Bachelor's Degree from St. Francis Xavier University (Canada), a diploma in Electronic Engineering, and a post-graduate diploma in Applied Information Technology.

Contact: aoneil@carinatek.com

Phillip Wendling - Vice President of Project Management & Integration

Mr. Wendling has more than twelve years experience in computer systems infrastructure and network systems analysis and support. He has been project manager for a number of significant information system deployments and has contributed directly to design, test and integration of large classified information technology network systems for the U.S. Army and the Missile Defense Agency. Mr. Wendling’s previous experience is directly applicable to his current responsibility which includes leading the project management team members for Carina deployment projects and managing the integration of Carina’s hardware and software systems into customers’ computing infrastructure. Mr. Wendling holds a  Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of North Alabama.

Contact:  pwendling@carinatek.com

Advisory Board

Ralph G. Petroff
Board Advisor

Ralph Petroff is a CEO with 30 years of successful global experience in high technology, including businesses in wireless communications, remote data acquisition and asset tracking, and clean technologies.  Currently, he is CEO of Magna Vista Group, providing management and strategic consulting to a variety of companies.

In 1975, Petroff, his brothers and father founded ADS Environmental Services, a pollution monitoring company utilizing NASA technology.  As CEO, Petroff grew the company to become a worldwide market leader.  Independent estimates show that ADS saved its municipal customers in excess of $10 billion in water and wastewater infrastructure improvement costs.  In 1996, Petroff became CEO at Time Domain Corporation and was credited with creating the UWB (ultrawideband) industry which employs a novel pulse radio transmission.  In 2005 Petroff was recruited by an Australian private technology center, NICTA, to become their "Entrepreneur in Residence".  He developed commercialization plans and provided strategic management to their most promising  start-ups.

Petroff has provided expert witness to 10 Congressional Committees on subjects ranging from water quality, infrastructure repair, spectrum management, to defense modernization.  He has been invited to speak at over 100 industry conferences such as Comdex, including 6 keynote speeches.

Petroff was born in Canada, and raised in Vietnam and the U.S.  His family moved to Huntsville where his father, Peter Petroff supported Von Braun's moon landing team.  Petroff is a graduate of Stanford University and is married with four teenage children.  He is an avid history reader, bicyclist, soccer player, and movie buff.

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