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Jack Acosta

Chairman of the Board, Audit Committee Chair

Jack Acosta is chairman of the board. He has also served as a member of the board of directors and as chairman of the audit committee since March 2004. He is an independent director and the audit committee financial expert. Acosta was previously a member of the board of directors, chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the governance committee of Docent Inc. He also currently serves on the boards of Commerce One and Integral Development. Acosta served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance for Portal Software from February 1999 until September 2001. In addition, Acosta served as Secretary for Portal Software from February 1999 through April 1999. From July 1996 to January 1999, Acosta served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Sybase, Inc., a database company. From December 1994 until July 1996, Acosta served as Vice President, Engineering Services, Integration and Business Management of Sybase. From March 1993 until December 1994, Acosta served as President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of Tanon Manufacturing, Inc., a manufacturing and engineering services company. Prior to March 1993, Acosta held various management positions at Ungermann-Bass, Inc., Atari, Inc., Diablo Systems, Inc., and Ford Motor Company.

Chair of the Audit Committee

Holdings: 50,000 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
Nov 8, 2007	Buy	18,464	5.00
Nov 7, 2007	Buy	5,100	5.00
Nov 6, 2007	Buy	8,700	5.00
Nov 5, 2007	Buy	17,736	4.98 - 5.00

Sally Narodick

Governance Committee Chair

Sally Narodick has served as a member of the Board of Directors, as a member of the compensation committee and as Chair of the governance committee since March 2004. She is an independent director. Narodick was previously Lead Director of Click2learn, Inc. from December 2002 to March 2004 and was a director of Click2learn, Inc. from May 1999. She is currently an independent consultant in the e-Learning industry. Narodick is a director of Penford Corporation, a publicly held complex carbohydrate company, Solutia, Inc., a publicly held specialty chemical company, and Puget Energy, a publicly held gas and electric utility. From September 2000 to March 2001, Narodick worked with Click2learn's management team advising on mergers and acquisitions, in addition to working with other non-competitive e-Learning companies. From October 1998 to September 2000, she was President and CEO of Apex Learning Inc., which provides e-Learning courses to high school students. Prior to that, she was Chairman and CEO of Edmark Corporation, a publicly held educational software company, from 1989 until September 1996. From December 1996 through October 1998, she was an educational technology consultant working primarily for the Consumer Software Division of IBM.

Member of the Compensation Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee

John Coné

Compensation Committee Chair

John Coné has served as a member of the Board of Directors, as a member of the governance committee and as Chair of the compensation committee since March 2004. He is an independent director. Previously, Coné served as a director of Click2learn from May 2002 until March 2004. He currently is a consultant and author in the field of organizational learning. From September 15, 2003 until February 13, 2004 he served as Interim President of the American Society of Training and Development. From July 1995 until his retirement in August 2001 Coné served as Vice President of Learning & Development for Dell Computer. Prior to Dell, he served as Chief Learning Officer and Vice President of Human Resources for Sequent Computer Systems Inc. a computer hardware and software company, from June 1991 to June 1995. Prior to Sequent, he served as Director of Corporate Educational Services for Motorola from February 1988 to May 1991, where he was a founder and creator of Motorola University in 1990. In 2002, Coné served as the Chairman of the American Society of Training and Development and on the Board of Storied Learning, a privately held e-Learning content company.

Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee

Arun Chandra

Chief Executive Officer

Arun Chandra joined SumTotal Systems as chief executive officer in October 2008, tasked with guiding the company's strategy and managing global operations. Chandra brings more than 20 years of technology leadership experience to his position and is a driven leader with general management, strategic marketing, and operational skills in global markets.

Chandra is a veteran of Hewlett-Packard where he began his career as a software engineer in 1985. During his 20-year tenure at HP, Chandra held many general management and senior functional leadership positions, his final as vice president worldwide marketing, strategy & alliances for the Technology Solution Group, a $30 billion enterprise portfolio spanning multiple software, services and systems business units. Earlier in his career with HP, he served as general manager of several growing businesses including the PC Direct business. He left HP in 2005 to serve as the president and chief executive officer of iPolicy Networks, a network security company.

Most recently, Chandra served as vice president of corporate operations at Unisys where he led the company's change management efforts as member of the CEO staff. He also managed a broad range of corporate functions including the office of the CTO, corporate strategy & development, worldwide marketing and global alliances, among others.

Chandra graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science. Additionally, he earned a Masters degree in Computer Science from Ohio State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He has also completed executive education courses at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Don Fowler

Member

Don Fowler retired as chief executive officer of SumTotal in October 2008. Fowler was named CEO of SumTotal Systems in November 2005, with the critical responsibilities of guiding the company's strategy and overseeing global operations. Fowler brings over 45 years of valuable business experience to his position.

Most recently, from 1998 to 2005, he put his expertise to work as a director, mentor and advisor to a number of early stage tech firms. He helped CEOs and venture capitalists put programs in place to develop products, address legal issues, hire and retain employees, communicate with investors, and drive sales. Fowler's background also includes a term from 1996-1998 as CEO with eT Communications, a developer of communications products used to monitor alarms and remotely read meters. He and his team secured the first of the company's customers and launched the firm on a successful trajectory.

In 1996, Fowler took the helm of Worlds, Inc., in an effort to revitalize and sell the company. Under Fowler's leadership, this virtual reality product developer dramatically increased its corporate sales from $1.5M to $7.1M in less than twelve months. Fowler completed his charge by raising $12M in venture capital and then selling the company. Before his tenure with Worlds, Inc., Fowler served as senior vice president and general manager for the Solutions Products Group at Tandem Computers, where he oversaw a $700M global business unit with 1,000 employees. He led his group in divesting a number of companies and acquiring others, while also playing a key role in communicating the value of these transactions to Wall Street investors.

From 1976 to 1986, he held numerous senior-level posts at Bechtel, an engineering and construction company with global operations. As CIO, he ran Bechtel's Information Services Group and created a profit center with over $350M in revenue. Prior to Bechtel, Fowler spent 11 years with IBM, climbing from a position as systems engineer to being responsible for sales and support across the western United States.

He began his professional career with Boeing in 1960. While there, he and a colleague developed the world's first library search-and-retrieval computer system.

Fowler serves on the President's Cabinet at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, as well as on the executive committee. He received both an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Ali Kutay

Member

Ali Kutay has served as a member of the Board of Directors and as a member of the audit and governance committees since March 2004, and of the compensation committee since October 2005. He is an independent director. He was previously a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the audit and governance committees of Docent Inc. From 1999 to 2003 Kutay was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb, Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. From 1997 to 1998 he was a director, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., a Java-based Application Server company, which merged with BEA Systems, Inc. in 1998. Previously he was the President and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation's Commercial Software Business Unit, Formtek, from 1990 to 1997. Fromtek was founded in 1983 and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. At Formtek, Kutay served at various roles including its President and Chief Executive Officer from 1985 to 1989. Kutay holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Engineering from Middle East Technical University and has completed graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee

Kevin Oakes

Member

Kevin Oakes has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since the Company's inception in March 2004, and was also President of the Company from its inception through May, 2006. He previously served as a director of Click2learn from September 1997, and its Chief Executive Officer from January 2000 and Chair of the Board from May 2001 until March 2004. Oakes had been President of Click2learn since joining the company in September 1997. Prior to that time, Oakes was the President of each of Oakes Interactive, a custom content development company, Acorn Associates, an e-Learning consulting firm and TopShelf Multimedia, a reseller of e-Learning titles which he founded in March 1993, January 1996 and March 1997, respectively, and each of which Click2learn acquired in September 1997. Prior to 1993, Oakes held positions at The Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, an insurance company, and Fidelity Investments, a mutual fund company. Oakes also serves on the Board of Directors of ASTD, where he serves as Chair for 2006, and Development Dimensions International ("DDI"), a privately-held human resources training firm.

Vijay Vashee

Member

Vijay Vashee has served as a member of the Board of Directors and the audit committee since March 2004, and of the compensation committee since October 2005. He is an independent director. Vashee was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Click2learn, Inc from July 2001 until March 2004. From 1982 to until October 2001, Vashee served in various senior marketing, product management and executive positions at Microsoft, including as General Manager for Microsoft Project from 1988 to 1992 and as General Manager for Power Point from 1992 to 1997. Vashee holds a B.Tech EE from IIT Bombay, an MSEE from Cornell University and MBA from the University of Chicago. Vashee is the Chairman and was founding President of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Seattle and previously served as a board member of IntelliPrep Technologies, Incorporated prior to its acquisition by Click2learn in May 2001.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee