Thomas E. Mader

President and Chief Executive Officer

As President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Thomas Mader is responsible for the strategic direction and management of Westell Technologies. He also is a member of Westell’s Board of Directors. Mr. Mader brings to Westell more than 30 years of global experience in senior level sales, marketing, strategy and leadership positions in the telecommunications equipment industry. He was most recently corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola’s Wireline Networks business, where he focused on large telecom acquisitions.

Prior to Motorola, Mr. Mader served as president and chief executive officer of Netrake Corporation, where he led the product development start-up into a fully-operational corporation. Mr. Mader also led Lucent’s Fiber Optic development company in Nürnberg, Germany and held several executive-level positions at Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Mader received his Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Marian College.

Amy Forster

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Amy Forster was named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Westell in July 2007. As CFO, she is responsible for all Westell financial functions, including financial reporting, treasury, planning, tax, and investor relations. Prior to her appointment she was the Managing Director and Controller of Claymore Securities, a privately held financial services firm.

Ms. Foster intially joined Westell in 1994 as Controller and also served as the Executive Director of Finance. During her tenure at Westell, she has been involved in the initial and secondary public offerings, the issuance of convertible debt, acquisitions, and the implementation of an enterprise resource planning solution. After receiving her CPA, her career began at Arthur Andersen LLP, and she has a degree in Accounting from Marquette University.

Timothy R. Pillow

Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer

In August 2007, Tim Pillow was appointed to the newly-created position of Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. In this role, Tim leads the design and implementation of Westell's global marketing strategy, including management of product development and marketing communications.

Mr. Pillow joined Westell from Nortel Networks, where he was Executive Vice President and Global Team Leader, responsible for sales, business development, and customer care of Nortel's largest North American Tier 1 carrier account. He spent over 15 years at Nortel and has been recognized through numerous awards, including the prestigious Regents Award for 10-year sustained sales achievement, the Einstein Award for Innovation, and the President's Award for Sales and Marketing Excellence.

Prior to Nortel, Mr. Pillow held executive leadership, strategic planning, sales management, and technical marketing positions at Lucent Technologies, DuPont, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Delaware, and was chosen to attend Stanford Executive Program.

Brian Powers

Vice President, General Manager OSPlant Systems Division

As Westell's Vice President and General Manager of OSPlant Systems, Brian Powers is responsible for managing and leading Westell's Outside Plant Systems (OSPlant Systems) Business Unit, formally Network Service Access (NSA). The OSPlant Systems Business Unit is focused on growth opportunities with a focus on Next Generation outdoor Cabinets and Enclosures, Power Distribution, Remote Monitoring solutions and Demarcation/Service hand-off panels for Ethernet, fiber and COAX interfaces. These OSPlant Systems solutions are ideally suited for wireless backhaul, and business enterprise services. Markets served include wireline carriers, wireless carriers, MSO's and Utility markets worldwide. Additionally Brian creates growth opportunities through mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances with partner companies. In this role, Brian has been responsible for the successful acquisitions of HyperEdge Corporation and Noran Tel, Inc. These strategic additions have contributed to market expansion and revenue growth for Westell's OSPlant Systems business unit.

Brian joined Westell in 1990 as Marketing Director, successfully developing a new marketing team whose accomplishments included winning six major product selection studies and launching a new corporate identity for the company. Since then he has held various leadership roles, including Vice President and General Manager of Sales. He is very active in the DSL Forum where he most recently chaired the DSL Home Marketing Working Group.

Prior to joining Westell, Brian was CPE Business Unit Director for Rockwell International Corporation. He has also held several other technical consulting and sales positions for firms in the telecommunications industry. Brian studied marketing and business management at DePaul University and North Central College, and he holds numerous certifications in leader training, presentation management, and technical marketing.

Chris Shaver

Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer

Chris Shaver was appointed to the position of Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Westell in April 2007. He has full responsibility for Westell's technology direction and oversees all engineering functions. Mr. Shaver joined Westell in January of 2005 as Vice President of Engineering, overseeing the development of several of Westell's new product lines. In that role he also managed Westell system architecture, systems engineering, systems test, and other functional engineering teams.

Prior to Westell, Mr. Shaver was Vice President of Engineering at Copper Mountain Networks, and helped Copper Mountain migrate from IP DSLAMs to IP service delivery platforms for video, voice and data. Before Copper Mountain he was co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Oresis Communications, and in the 1990s, Mr. Shaver had various engineering roles at ADC Kentrox. He has been developing leading-edge packet networking products for nearly 20 years and holds a patent for a packet framing technique. Mr. Shaver received his engineering degree from Cornell University, and he completed an executive education program at the Harvard Business School.

Mark Skurla

Vice President of Sales and Customer Service

As Vice President of Sales and Customer Service, Mark Skurla oversees all aspects of Westell's product sales, as well as system engineering, technical support, distribution and inside sales organizations.

Mark brings over 20 years of sales and sales management experience in carrier and channel sales to his role at Westell. He joined Westell from Fluke Networks, where he served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Prior to Fluke Networks, Mark was the Vice President of Sales at Copper Mountain Networks, and he spent 15 years at ADC Telecommunications in sales management positions of increasing responsibility. At Copper Mountain and ADC, Mark gained extensive experience managing sales of service delivery and network access technologies. Mark received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Delaware.

Tim Reedy

President and CEO, ConferencePlus

Tim is responsible for ConferencePlus' strategic direction and for the execution of its business plan. Having joined the organization in October of 2002, Mr. Reedy brought with him an extensive background in managing high technology, high-growth businesses.

Tim joins ConferencePlus from MCI Conferencing, where he served as Vice President of Marketing, Finance and Information Technology. Mr. Reedy was instrumental in helping MCI Conferencing grow from under $100M in 1995 to over $500M in 2001. During this period, MCI Conferencing emerged as the largest conferencing company in the world and was the most profitable division within MCI. Before joining MCI, Tim had a distinguished career with tenures at Darome Teleconferencing and Ameritech Mobile Communications. Tim received an Accounting Degree from Bradley University in 1983. Upon graduation, Mr. Reedy was employed as an auditor for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell (KPMG). Tim passed the Illinois CPA examination in May, 1988 and attended the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management and received a Master's Degree in Management (1992) with a major in Marketing and Management.

Board of Directors

John Seazholtz

Retired Chief Technology Officer, Bell Atlantic Corporation

John W. Seazholtz has served as Director of the Company since December 1997 and was elected Chairman in April 2000. Mr. Seazholtz was President and Chief Executive Officer of Telesoft America, Inc. from May 1998 to May 2000 In April 1998, Mr. Seazholtz retired as Chief Technology Officer - Bell Atlantic where he served since June 1995. Mr. Seazholtz previously served as Vice President Technology and Information Services - Bell Atlantic and in other executive capacities with Bell Atlantic beginning in 1962. Mr. Seazholtz currently serves as a Director for; Odetics, Inc., a supplier of digital data management products for the security, broadcast and computer storage markets, and for ASC-Advanced Switching Communications, an ATM network equipment developer and for Mariner, Inc a ATM LAN CPE developer.

Paul Dwyer

Retired Vice President, Finance, Henry Crown and Company

Paul A. Dwyer has served as a Director of the Company since January 1996 and as a Director of Westell, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, since November 1995. Mr. Dwyer served as Chief Financial Officer of Henry Crown and Company, a private investment firm from February 1981 to December 1999, currently serves as Vice President - Administration of Longview Management Group, LLC, a registered investment advisor, since October 1998.

Eileen A. Kamerick

Chief Financial Officer, Heidrick and Struggles International

Ms. Kamerick is CFO of Heidrick and Struggles International (NASDAQ HSII), the world's premier provider of senior-level executive search and leadership services.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Kamerick was chief financial officer & executive vice president of Bcom3 Group, Inc., one of the world's leading advertising and marketing services firms and the parent company of Leo Burnett and Starcom Media. Bcom3 Group was merged with Paris based Publicis Groupe in 2002.

Ms. Kamerick also held senior finance and legal positions for BP Amoco and Whirlpool Corporation. She graduated summa cum laude from Boston College, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, received a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and holds an MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

She resides in Chicago with her husband, Victor Heckler, Ph.D., a management psychologist, and their son, Connor, who is an avid Cubs fan.

Robert Penny III

Managing Director, PF Management

Robert C. Penny III has served as a Director of the Company since September 1998. He has been the managing partner of P.F. Management Co., a private investment company, since May 1980.

Roger L. Plummer

President, Plummer Consulting and Managing Director, International Engineering Consortium

Mr. Plummer has been a Westell Director since September 2001.

Mr. Plummer is a retired president of Ameritech's Custom Services business unit serving its largest corporate customers and those with the most complex communications requirements and was previously president of Ameritech Information Systems. Earlier he served in a number of executive-level positions for Illinois Bell - a company he joined in 1964 - including, in succession, its vice president for residential services, network services, marketing and operations.

Mr. Plummer has extensive civic involvement with a special emphasis on education, including service on the governing boards of DePaul University; Channel 11, the public television station in Chicago; University of Illinois Foundation; Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education; Association of Public Television Stations; and the advisory boards of the Rush Hospital Neurobehavioral Center and University of Illinois Medical Center.

Melvin Simon

President, Melvin J. Simon and Associates, Ltd.

Melvin J. Simon has served as Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer of the Company since July 1995 and as a Director of the Company since August 1992. From August 1992 to July 1995, Mr. Simon served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Company. A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Simon founded and has served as President of Melvin J. Simon & Associates, Ltd., a public accounting firm, since May 1980.