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Kitty Hawk’s Board of Directors is responsible for oversight and supervision of the overall affairs of the company. We are proud
to have assembled one of the most dynamic and experienced teams in the industry.
The composition of Kitty Hawk’s Board is strong, balanced and includes industry executives with a variety of skills and depth
of experience. This allows Kitty Hawk’s Board to offer guidance in core areas vital to the company’s continued success.
Meet the team guiding Kitty Hawk’s upward momentum in the 21st century.
Robert Zoller, Member - Strategic Planning Committee
Mr. Zoller has served as a member of our Board of Directors since November 2002. From November 2002 until April 30, 2007, he served as our
Chief Executive Officer and President.. Zoller was selected to lead the Kitty Hawk team in November 2002 and serves as a member of the Board’s Strategic Planning
Committee.
From April 2002 until November 2002, Mr. Zoller was a founder and active principal of International Management Solutions, LLC, a strategic planning consulting practice.
Mr. Zoller served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., a commercial, passenger airline, from December 1999 to April 2002. In March 2003,
Hawaiian Airlines filed for Chapter 11 protection under the U.S. bankruptcy code. Mr. Zoller served as Senior Vice President Maintenance and Engineering for AirTran Airways, Inc.
from March 1996 to December 1999, Vice President Operations for American Airlines/AMR Eagle from September 1987 to March 1996, and Director of Flight Operations for Pacific Southwest Airlines, Inc.
from July 1979 to September 1987. Mr. Zoller held various accounting and financial planning management positions with General Dynamics, Inc. and NCR, Inc. during the period July 1975 to July 1979.
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Melvin L. Keating , Chairman
Mr. Keating has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2006 and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors since April 2007.
Mr. Keating is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Semiconductor Corporation, a provider of high-value memory, mixed signal
and system solution products for the communications, computing, consumer and industrial markets. From December 2005 to March 2006, Mr. Keating was
interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Semiconductor, and from October 2005 until December 2005, he acted as a consultant to the
Board of Directors of Alliance Semiconductor. From April 2004 to September 2005, Mr. Keating served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer of Quovadx, Inc., a software company. From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Keating served as a strategy consultant to Warburg Pincus Equity
Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Keating served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunbelt Management,
a private company that owns and manages commercial and retail properties. From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Keating served as Senior Vice President — Finance and Administration
of Olympia & York Companies (and its successors), a private company that developed New York City’s World Financial Center and London’s Canary Wharf. From 2001 to 2004,
Mr. Keating served on the Board of Directors of Price Legacy Corporation, a Real Estate Investment Trust. Mr. Keating also currently serves on the
Board of Directors of Tower Semiconductor Ltd., an independent wafer manufacturer, and Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company.
Keating’s term of office as chairman of Kitty Hawk, Inc. expires with the annual meeting of stockholders in 2007.
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Joseph D. Ruffolo, Director
Joseph Ruffolo joined the Kitty Hawk, Inc. Board of Directors in 2004. He serves on the Board’s Strategic Planning and Compensation
Committees.
Since 1994, Mr. Ruffolo has managed Ruffolo Benson, LLC, a firm he co-founded, which provides capital for management buyouts and for
recapitalizing underperforming companies. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Ruffolo held various positions with North American Van Lines serving as its
Chief Executive Officer from 1987 to 1993. In addition, from 1987 to 1993, Mr. Ruffolo served on the executive management committee of Norfolk Southern Corporation,
the parent company of North American Van Lines. Since 1998, Mr. Ruffolo has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Tower Financial Corporation. Since 1999, Mr. Ruffolo
has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Steel Dynamics Inc., a producer of carbon steel products.
Ruffolo’s term of office as a director of Kitty Hawk, Inc. expires with the annual meeting of stockholders in 2007.
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Bryant Riley, Director
Mr. Riley was appointed to our Board of Directors on April 23, 2007. He is the founder of B. Riley & Co., Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer of since January 1997.
B. Riley & Co., a member of the NASD, provides research and trading ideas primarily to institutional investors. Mr. Riley has also been the General Partner of Riley Investment Management since 2001,
and is a director of Aldila, Inc., Celeritek, Inc., DDI Corporation, Integrated Silicon Solutions, Inc. and chairman of Alliance Semiconductor Corp. Prior to 1997, Mr. Riley held a variety of
positions in the brokerage industry, primarily as an institutional salesman and trader. From October 1993 to January 1997 he was a co-head of Equity at Dabney-Resnick, Inc., a Los Angeles based brokerage firm.
From 1991-1993 he was a co-founder of Huberman-Riley, a Texas based brokerage firm.
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Alan Howe, Member - Audit Committee
Mr. Howe was appointed to our Board of Directors on April 24, 2007.
Mr. Howe is currently a Vice President of Business Development for Covad Communications, focused on wireless “last mile” alternative access. Prior to joining Covad, Mr. Howe was a principal at
Broadband Initiatives, LLC, a boutique consulting and advisory firm. Mr. Howe was also previously Chief Financial Officer of Teletrac, Inc. for six years, raising approximately $200 million in public
high yield debt, private equity and bank financing. Mr. Howe joined Teletrac from Sprint, where he was Director of Corporate Development and one of the initial team members that helped start Sprint PCS.
Before joining Sprint, he was an Assistant Vice President at Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now JP Morgan Chase & Co.) in New York where he cross-sold a wide range of corporate finance products, including
syndicated bank credits, interest rate swaps, M&A advisory services, mortgage financings, private placements, subordinated debt financings, structured finance products, cash management and trust services.
Prior to his experience at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Mr. Howe worked at Draper and Kramer, Inc., a large privately held real estate firm based in Chicago. Mr. Howe also currently serves on the
board of directors of Crossroads Systems, Inc., Dyntek, Inc. and Alliance Semiconductor Corporation.
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