Imperial Technology Adds Executives; Creates New Technology Positions; Strong Demand and New Product Development Fuel Corporate Growth

Business Wire, March 19, 2002

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2002

Imperial Technology, the company accelerating application performance, today announced an expanded management team with the addition of two executives.

"We consider ourselves fortunate to encounter business growth at a time when the market is so volatile," said Robert David, president and CEO of Imperial Technology. "These individuals will help enhance our product offering and further accelerate our ability to bring leading hardware and software solutions to the market."

Dave Fisk - Chief Knowledge Officer

In this newly created position, Mr. Fisk will be responsible for the architecture and development of enabling storage solutions. Mr. Fisk was most recently Principal Scientist, I/O Analysis and Storage Configuration Design at Sun Microsystems' (NYSE:SUN) Performance Group, Global Network Storage Sales. He is well known throughout the Sun community for his ability to develop benchmarks, design high performance configurations, and solve capacity planning problems. Mr. Fisk was a founding member of Sun's Network Storage Technical Marketing group and received the General Manager/VP award for his work in storage performance profiling while there.

Wayne Kastner - Vice President, Engineering

Mr. Kastner replaces retiring VP of Engineering Richard Major, one of Imperial's founders. Mr. Kastner brings over 25 years of experience in communications, networking, and storage. He will oversee the ongoing development of new software and hardware products planned for release in the near future.

Mr. Kastner comes to Imperial from Aristos Logic, where he was Director of Software Development. Prior to that, he was Chief Technology Officer at Afiniti.net. Mr. Kastner has served as the Director of Software Engineering at Phoenix Technologies and Standard Microsystems, and has held various engineering positions within Data General, Burroughs, and Computer Automation Corporation.

"We are making strategic staff additions as we continue to grow," said Mr. David. "With Imperial recently obtaining a second round of financing, sales on the increase, and new products coming to market, our future growth looks very promising."

About Imperial Technology, Inc.

Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Imperial Technology has over a decade of experience designing and manufacturing high-performance storage systems that shatter I/O bottlenecks to supercharge traditional storage. Imperial's products are installed on Sun, HP, Compaq/Digital, IBM and Unisys systems. They integrate and install seamlessly in environments that run Veritas (NASDAQ:VRTS), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Sybase (NASDAQ:SYBS), and EMC (NYSE:EMC) products. Imperial Technology can be reached at 800-451-0666 or online at http://www.imperialtech.com.