Robert J. Majteles has been a director since November 2006 and has been our Chairman of the Board since March 2007. Mr. Majteles is the managing partner of Treehouse Capital, LLC (www.treehousecapital.com ), an investment firm he launched in 2000. Mr. Majteles serves as an active and involved board member for the companies in Treehouse's portfolio. Prior to launching Treehouse, Mr. Majteles was the Chief Executive Officer of three different technology companies. Mr. Majteles has also been an investment banker and a mergers and acquisitions attorney. Mr. Majteles serves on several public company boards. Mr. Majteles serves on the boards of directors of Adept Technology, Inc., from 2003 through the present, where he is also a member of the Compensation Committee; iPass, Inc., from 2004 through the present, where he also serves as chairman of the Audit Committee; and Unify Corporation, from 2004 to the present, where he also serves on the Compensation Committee. Mr. Majteles was previously a board member of several additional public company boards: Rovi Corporation (formerly Macrovision Corporation) from 2006 through 2010; Merriman, Curhan, & Ford Group, Inc. from 2008 through 2009; Phoenix Technologies Ltd. from 2007 through 2008; World Heart Corporation from 2003 through 2008; Vertical Communications, Inc from 2002 through 2007; Superconductor Technologies, Inc from 2002 through 2004; and Comarco Inc, from 2008 through 2011. Mr. Majteles obtained his B.A. from Columbia University in 1986 and his J.D. from Stanford University in 1989. We believe that Mr. Majteles is qualified to serve as a member of the Board due to his combined business, investment, and financial expertise and experience. His management experience in leading companies, including serving as CEO of 3 technology companies, and his prior and current service on multiple boards of directors of innovative technology companies makes Mr. Majteles effective at leading the Board on behalf of our stockholders.

Joshua L. Berman has been a director since October 2007. Mr. Berman co-founded and serves as President of BeachMint, a next generation eCommerce company focused on building brands and delivering a personalized user experience, since April 2010. Mr. Berman served as President of Slingshot Labs, an incubator dedicated to building and developing new web ventures for News Corporation, from February 2008 through April 2010. Mr. Berman was a co-founder of MySpace.com, a leading online lifestyle portal, and served as its Chief Operating Officer from January 2003 until April 2010. Prior to 2003, Mr. Berman co-founded and managed two Internet companies: Response Base Marketing, where he held positions as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer from 2001 through 2003, and Xdrive Technologies from 1999 through November 2001, where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. Mr. Berman also worked from 1997 through 1999 as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as an international marketing manager and a senior financial analyst at Twentieth Century Fox. Mr. Berman was actively licensed as a certified public accountant from 1991 through 2002, and holds a B.A. degree in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. We believe that Mr. Berman is qualified to serve as a director due to his industry knowledge and operational experience with, and service as COO or President of internet companies, including internet marketing and social networking, combined with his strong accounting and financial background and management experience.

Sol Khazani is a co-founder of U.S. Auto Parts and has been a director since January 2001. Mr. Khazani also served as our the Company's Chairman of the Board from January 2001 to March 2007, as our Chief Financial Officer from January 2001 to April 2005 and as a Vice President from October 1995 to January 2001. From 1995 through December 2008, Mr. Khazani served as the Vice President of American Condenser, Inc., a company that he co-founded which manufactures air-conditioning condensers for automotive and industrial applications. Mr. Khazani also serves as financial director of the non-profit organization Women for World Health. Mr. Khazani holds a B.S. degree in accounting and an M.B.A. from National University in San Diego. We believe Mr. Khazani's extensive background in the auto parts and industrial manufacturing and distribution industries provides a valuable juxtaposition with the e-commerce experience of many our other directors. We also believe that his historical insight into the Company's operations and strategic relationships, combined with his foresight and creativity in driving the growth of U.S. Auto Parts from a small, local operation delivering parts to an international internet organization qualifies him to serve as a director.

Ellen F. Siminoff has been a director since November 2006. Ms. Siminoff is President and CEO of Shmoop University, Inc., an educational publishing company which aims to reduce the friction in learning. Ms. Siminoff also serves as Director of Journal Communications, Inc., a newspaper publisher that also owns radio and television stations. From March 2004 to October 2008, Ms. Siminoff served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Efficient Frontier, Inc., a provider of paid search engine marketing solutions, and she served as Chairman from February 2008 to mid-2009. Prior to that, from 1996 to February 2004, Ms. Siminoff served in various capacities at Yahoo!, including as Senior Vice-President of Entertainment and Small Business and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Vice President, Business Development and Planning. Ms. Siminoff also serves on the boards of directors of public companies Journal Communications, Inc., and SolarWinds, Inc., has served on the board of Glu Mobile from June 2008 through the end of her term in June 2011, and additionally serves on the boards of private companies. Ms. Siminoff holds an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. We believe that Ms. Siminoff is qualified to serve as a director due to her breadth and depth of experience in the online marketplace; especially in the arena of marketing and traffic optimization, as well as her prior board experience and management skills. Her breadth of experience in emerging growth companies and success in a variety of industries also adds expertise and diversity to our Board of Directors.