StockerYale appoints new board member

December 6, 2004

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SALEM, N.H. -- StockerYale, Inc. (NASDAQ: STKR), a leading independent provider of photonics-based products, announced today the appointment of Mark Zupan to its Board of Directors. Mr. Zupan is currently Dean of William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester (New York), and was recently profiled in the Financial Times of London.

Prior to Mr. Zupan’s appointment in January 2004 as Dean at the University of Rochester, he was Dean and Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona since 1997 where he and his team attained noteworthy achievements that included; raising significant endowments, developing the College’s first-ever strategic plan, dramatically revamping the undergraduate business curriculum, revitalizing the University’s business faculty, and launching a technologically state-of-the-art distance learning program that was profiled in a feature article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Prior to his tenure at the University of Arizona, Mr. Zupan served as a faculty member and Associate Dean at the USC Marshall School of Business and as a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business.

During the course of his professional career, Mr. Zupan has enjoyed numerous professional affiliations, involvements, and accomplishments including; being an active Board Member on the Greater Tucson Economic Council, Northern Trust Bank of Arizona, and University of Arizona Science and Technology Park. In addition, he has been a member of the editorial boards for Economic Inquiry, Journal of Business Economics, Public Choice, and Research in Law and Economics.

Mr. Zupan is currently a Director of @Wireless, Inc., a provider of wireless products and services, and serves on the Economic Development Strategy Team of Monroe Country in New York. He has also served over the years on the LEAD Council of Deans, AACSB Business Accreditation Committee and is an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Mr. Zupan has co-authored two books entitled Microeconomic Theory and Applications and Microeconomic Cases and Applications and authored numerous articles in Public Choice, Journal of Law Economics, and American Economic Review.

Mr. Zupan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. His fields of specialization include industrial organization, regulation, and political economy.

“We are pleased to welcome Mark to StockerYale’s board of directors,” said Mark W. Blodgett, StockerYale's chairman & chief executive officer. “As the company continues to grow, Mark brings a unique strategic perspective to our board. Further, given that the University of Rochester is considered the nation’s premier optics institution, we expect to build a mutually beneficial relationship between our two institutions. We look forward to Mark’s high energy, enthusiasm, and contributions in the near future.”

StockerYale Inc.

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