Board of Directors

William Henry Delevati, Chairman

William Henry Delevati has been the Chairman of the Board since June 2005 and has served as a director of the Company since October 1999. He is currently the Chairman of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit, Compensation, Strategic Transactions and Employee Option Committees of the Board.

Mr. Delevati has also served as a consultant to various companies located in the Silicon Valley area since April 2000. From October 1999 to April 2000, Mr. Delevati served as the Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of Aspect Communications Corporation, a provider of customer call center solutions. From November 1995 to April 1999, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Information Services for Quantum Corporation, a storage device company. From April 1995 to November 1995, he was the Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President of MIS for Conner Peripherals, a storage device company. From September 1994 to April 1995, he was the Chief Information Officer, Vice President of Worldwide MIS for Borland Corporation, a software tools company. From September 1993 to September 1994, he was the Chief Information Officer, Vice President of Worldwide MIS for Logitech, a computer peripheral device company. From December 1987 to September 1993, he was the Director of Application Development and Global Information Resources for Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Mr. Delevati received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Arizona State University.

Uday Bellary

Uday Bellary has served as a director of Versant and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors since July 2003 and is also a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committees of the Board.

Mr. Bellary has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Atrica, Inc., a privately held optical Ethernet company, on a full-time basis since November 2005 and previously on a part-time basis between April 2005 and October 2005. Mr. Bellary has also served as part time Executive Vice President, Finance, Administration and Operations and Chief Financial Officer of VL, Inc. a privately held VoIP services company, and as a member of its board of directors from September 2003 to November 2005 and remains an advisor. Since July 2004 Mr. Bellary has also been a member of the board of directors of Backweb Technologies Ltd, a publicly-held provider of software that enables mobile workers to access web-based applications. From February 2000 to August 2003, he served as the Senior Vice President, Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Metro Optix, Inc., a privately held provider of optical networking equipment, which, to satisfy its liabilities, disposed of its intellectual property and other assets to Xtera Communications and ceased operations in August of 2003. From September 1997 to October 1999, he served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of MMC Networks, Inc., a publicly traded manufacturer of data networking processors that was acquired by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation in October 2000. Between February 1997 and September 1997, Mr. Bellary was Vice President, Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer of DTM Corporation, a manufacturer of computer-driven laser systems for industrial prototyping. Prior to that he held various positions at Cirrus Logic, Inc., a semiconductor company, most recently as the Director of Finance, and prior to that he served in various roles in international finance, accounting and audit departments of Intel Corporation, a semiconductor company.

Mr. Bellary received a B.S. degree in Finance, Accounting and Economics from Karnatak University and a DMA degree in Finance from University of Bombay, India. Mr. Bellary is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Accountant.

Dr. Herbert May

Dr. Herbert May has served as a director of the Company since March 2004, is currently the Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Audit and Nominating Committees of the Board.

From November 2000 to March 2004, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Poet Holdings, Inc. In addition, Dr. May served as a member of both the Audit and Compensation Committees of Poet Holdings, Inc. Dr. May has held several leading positions at Alcatel in both Stuttgart and Paris. His last position at Alcatel was Head of the Office of Communication Division. From February 1994 to September 1995, Dr. May, acting in the position of Spokesman for the Management Board, took a leading role as CEO in establishing DeTeSystems, a German wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG that provides system solutions for telecommunications services to significant accounts in Germany. In 1995, he was appointed to the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG, where he was responsible for large business customers, multimedia and systems solutions until May 1998.

Currently, Dr. May manages his own consulting and investment company and is a member of the advisory boards of several IT and multimedia companies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of InfoVista S.A., a publicly held French company that provides software products that monitor and analyze the performance of corporate IT infrastructures.

Jochen Witte

Jochen Witte has served on Versant’s Board of Directors since March 2004 following Versant’s merger with Poet Holdings, Inc. and is a member of the Strategic Transactions Committee and Employee Option Committee of the Board.

Mr. Witte has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Versant since June 2005, and he served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Secretary from June 2005 to June 2006. From March 2004 to June 2005, he served as President, European Operations of Versant.

Prior to joining Versant, Mr. Witte was CEO of Poet Holdings Inc., a company that merged with Versant in 2004 and which he co-founded in 1993. He initially worked as Poet’s Managing Director of Germany and became Poet’s Chief Financial Officer in 1999 when Poet went public. Prior to joining Poet, Mr. Witte was with BKS, a consulting and tools software company, where he rose to Managing Director after initially having responsibility for sales and training.

Mr. Witte received a degree in Business Administration from the Berlin Technical University and also attended the University of Wales as an exchange student.

Bernhard Woebker

Bernhard Woebker has served as a director of the Company since June 2005 and was previously a director of the Company from June 1999 until the Company’s merger with Poet Holdings, Inc. in March 2004. He currently serves as a member of the Strategic Transactions Committee of the Board.

Mr. Woebker has been a consultant to various investment banking and venture capital firms in Europe and the United States since late 1999. From January 1999 until July 2001, he served as Executive Vice President of the Company and from March 1997 until January 1999 he served as the Company’s Vice President and General Manager in Europe. From 1994 to March 1997, he was the President of Versant Object Technology GmbH, an independently-owned distributorship for Versant products in Europe, which was acquired by Versant in March 1997. From 1976 until 1994, Mr. Woebker held a variety of positions in Germany and the United States with Nixdorf Computer AG, Nixdorf Computer Engineering Corp. and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, all information technology companies, including the position of President and CEO of Nixdorf Computer Engineering Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts from 1986 to 1989. Mr. Woebker has also served as Senior Vice President, Pyramid Technology Corp. in Europe and as Vice President, NeXT Computer, Inc. in Europe.

Mr. Woebker received a Masters of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Hannover.