Gerald K. “Gerry” Perkel

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Perkel has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Planar Systems since September 2005. Prior to joining Planar, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Merant PLC, a provider of ECM (enterprise-change management) software that was acquired by Serena Software in 2004. From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Perkel served as president of the Office Printing Business at Xerox, a multi-billion dollar segment of Xerox’s business. Prior to that, from 1995 to 2000, Mr. Perkel was president of the Color Printing and Imaging Business of Tektronix. Mr. Perkel received his BS in System Science engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Scott Hildebrandt

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Hildebrandt joined Planar as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in January 2005. Prior to joining Planar, Mr. Hildebrandt served as CFO at Merant PLC, CFO at InFocus Corporation and several financial executive roles at Tektronix, including vice president and corporate treasurer and vice president and division controller of the Color Printer Business. He currently serves as a Board Trustee for the Oregon State University Foundation. Mr. Hildebrandt joined Haskins and Sells, CPA’s, following his graduation from Oregon State University, where he received a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting and Computer Science.