Management

Dr. Frank Abdi, Chief Scientist

Dr. Frank Abdi is the founder of AlphaSTAR Corporation, renowned aerospace scientist, and distinguished author. For over thirty years he has contributed leadership to solving advanced material challenges including the derivation and modification of theoretical equations, aero-elastic tailoring, optimization, advanced material design, fatigue, creep, fracture mechanics, and structural mechanics. At AlphaSTAR he has assembled a team of scientists and engineers that represent the world's leading repository of advanced material intellectual property and developed proprietary software to maximize the utilization of this vast knowledge base to provide computerized virtual testing capabilities.

Prior to AlphaSTAR, Dr. Abdi led Rockwell International's Advanced Program's Controlled Configured Vehicle Research organization. Key projects included the design and simulation of: NASP (X30), B1-B bird strike, Advanced Launch System (ALS), Boosted Penetrator, Swedish Fighter, Special Operation Aircraft (SOA), and the space shuttle redesign.

Dr. Abdi earned his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Southern California. He has published numerous journal papers and books in optimization, materials science and computational structur¬al analysis. Dr. Abdi continues to embrace academic partners and remains active in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, AIAA (member of Optimiza¬tion Committee), AIAA (member of Adaptive Structure Committee), NASA Ames (Committee in Aircraft Conceptual Design), and SAE (member of RMS Committee).

Kay Matin, President

Ms. Matin serves the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. She has provided Alpha STAR's operational leadership since 1990. During her tenure, the company has evolved from an advanced material research entity to a leading provider of software and engineering consulting solutions for the global aerospace, automotive, department of defense, and energy markets.

Under Ms. Matin's direction, AlphaSTAR has expanded the GENOA customer base from the United States to Europe and Asia. To promote this expansion, she developed strategic relationships with partner's including AlphaSTAR's global OEM agreement with MSC Software. It was also her vision in 2009, to build on the company's success in governmental research projects to grow a commercial engineering services practice. This group has now expanded their customer base from North America to Asia. Internally, Ms. Matin has been responsible for growing the company's infrastructure including human resources, finance, contract administration, and corporate governance.

In addition to Ms. Matin's leadership contributions, as the major owner of AlphaSTAR, she brings the company the designation of a "woman-owned" corporation. She received her Bachelor of Science from California State University, Fullerton.

Kurosh Kafie, Executive Vice President Consulting Services

Mr. Kafie leads AlphaSTAR's global consulting services practice. His extensive experience building strategic relationships with Fortune 500 clients has accelerated the company's expansion into this emerging growth arena. With 20+ years of experience defining customer challenges and delivering solutions, on-time and on-budget, he brings veteran leadership to the team. Prior to joining AlphaSTAR, Mr. Kafie built successful consulting services practices for several global consulting leaders including Capgemini (CAP: EN Paris), HP/Knightsbridge (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ), and Ernst & Young. He began his career in aerospace at Boeing as a research engineer in Seattle.

Mr. Kafie has a Masters Degree from the Aeronautics and Astronautics department of MIT, where he studied advanced Finite Element Structural Analysis. Mr. Kafie holds an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from USC.

Dr. Rose Ragalini, Director of Business Development

Dr. Ragalini, with over 20 years of international business development and public relation experience, joined AlphaSTAR Corporation in 1999 to introduce GENOA to the global market. Dr. Ragalini has been instrumental in developing long-term customer relationships throughout the world in a wide variety of business sectors, from aerospace to maritime to automotive to infrastructure, enabling customers to solve difficult structural problems rapidly and accurately.

Dr. Ragalini arranges and facilitates customized solutions for each AlphaSTAR customer to ensure maximum satisfaction throughout the project life. In addition, Dr. Ragalini organizes and provides leadership in AlphaSTAR's participation in a wide variety of industry associations, symposiums and trade shows. She directs and focuses AlphaSTAR's proposal efforts for research and development programs sponsored by the Department of Defense, NASA, DARPA and DOE.

To keep AlphaSTAR's knowledge base leading edge, Dr. Ragalini has developed Academic Partnerships with a number of elite US and international research universities, Dr. Ragalini's creative management and business development approaches, in essence, her pioneering thinking, have been instrumental in achieving AlphaSTAR's world class status.

Richard Sandfer, Corporate Financial Advisor & CPA

Mr. Sandfer began providing CPA support to AlphaSTAR in 2009 and subsequently was added to leadership team as their go-to financial advisor for strategic financial and corporate governance matters. In addition to his CPA credential, he brings to AlphaSTAR extensive partner and management experience with Arthur Andersen and KPMG.

Mr. Sandfer has served as acting CFO for Venture backed and middle market companies and has led development of new and existing companies with full P&L responsibility. His distinguished corporate finance career spans nearly 25 years, including mergers, acquisitions, debt and equity financing, and recapitalizations. He was a founder and Managing Partner of Falcon Ventures, a venture capital and investment banking firm based in Southern California.

Mr. Sandfer is currently a managing partner at Sandfer Fikert & Associates in Orange County, California. He earned his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from USC with honors.

Michael Walther, Chairman of the Board

Mr. Walther served as AlphaSTAR's chief strategy advisor since 2007 and was elected as Chairman of the Board in 2011. He has been instrumental in developing the company's long range growth strategy, capitalization plan, and key business development relationships.

Mr. Walther is currently Chairman of multiple emerging growth technology companies across the United States and has significant global experience in "C level" executive roles. His 20+ year senior officer experience spans public and private companies that have raised over $400m in private, public, and debt financing including tenure at XDimensional Technologies, Stamps.com (NASDAQ: STMP), Centor, and Artios.

Mr. Walther is the CEO of Walther Edge, a corporate board and executive management company based in South Carolina. He is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and received his Bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University - School of Commerce.