GTR Tech Corporation
§ Founded July, 2005
§ VC Funded, Privately held Delaware Corporation
§ President/CEO and Founder: Sean Phillip Hall
§ GT3, 1st Sport Compact PC™ product introduction: April ‘07
§ Sport Compact PC Patents Filed, Q1’06

GTR Tech Corporation, ’05 - Current

President/CEO, Founder

Broadcom Corporation, '02-'05

Enterprise Networking Group, Marketing Management

Advanced Micro Devices, 97-'01
Technical Marketing, Channel Marketing, Server and Workstation Product

Marketing

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Bachelors of Science, Business Administration, Marketing Management, 1997

filling the gap between Desktop PCs and Notebook PCs.

2) Designed for Transportability

3) Contemporary Industrial Design

4) Quiet, Thermally Efficient

Concept: Solidworks

Design: PRO-E

Concept to Production: 21 months

Sean Hall
Many people have asked “Why did GTR Tech Corporation developed GT3”?,
“Why did you create this product”? Put simply, this is the product I’ve always wanted…
As a computer enthusiast and technophile, I couldn’t understand why an obvious need,
wasn’t being filled. Years went by and the PC I really wanted? It still didn’t exist in the
market. I was baffled how the market, being so large, could overlook such an obvious
market opportunity. I concluded, decision makers within organizations equipped to make
ruly innovative market change, are so removed from the market and users, they typically
don’t understand the trends within the market to respond to that change. Therefore, I took
this opportunity to start GTR Tech Corporation, and make the PC product the market
“overlooked”. Before I begin explaining how GT3 and Sport Compact PCs came to light,
I think its important to understand a little background of my experience in technology,

computers and road racing.
When I started working for AMD in 1997, I was building PCs on a daily basis.
When I looked inside a PC, I couldn’t understand why most PCs, when fully configured,
had a lot of wasted space, making the PC unnecessarily large and very difficult to
transport. The problem seemed so obvious to me, I thought a company would eventually
develop a small PC with all the benefits of a full size PC. Years went by and PCs still
maintained the same paradigm: the best PCs where in a behemoth enclosure.
After I left Broadcom, I started working on a design to solve this problem. After
several months of work, I came up with a concept which allowed the PC expansion cards
to interleave one another, eliminating wasted space in the expansion card area, yet
enabling the expansion cards to work with readily available “popular” ATX
motherboards. After the Feature Module concept was complete, I started working on the

design.
Having had experience as a German auto mechanic, doing service/repairs and race
car prep and setup, I was intimately familiar with sports car design and design strategies
of race cars: optimizing weight and performance in a high performance, durable design.
In the creation of the GT3 product, I tried to implement these strategies. For durability, I
included an add-in card retention system that kept the cards firmly in place. To increase
rigidity, I integrated the front bezel into the chassis, which in turn acts as a sub-frame.
For cooling efficiency, I included cold air intakes with fans blowing directly to the
primary sources of heat; just as a race car has a cold-air intake for the engine, brake
ducts, intercooler, etc., GT3 includes dedicated cold-air intakes blowing air towards the
three major sources of heat within a PC: CPU/memory, Add-in Cards/VGA, and Power

supply.
Formulating the enclosure’s industrial design, I realized today’s x86 PCs seemed
to be lacking in one area: contemporary style and elegance. In other words, today’s PCs
were relatively the same: a rectangular box with plane industrial design elements. As I
was creating the concept for this new PC, I wanted stylish and functional design elements
that communicated performance, yet implemented these elements in a in an elegant way.
Therefore, I integrated design elements reminiscent of a high end sports car: stylized
logo, sloped upper bezel with cold air “ram” type intake, lower “air dam“ type intake,
faux carbon fiber front bezel, and retractable wing-shaped handle.
In conclusion, considering the objectives we set out with; a SFF enclosure with
full size ATX motherboard, full size VGA and expansion card support, a PC designed for
Transportability that’s quiet and thermally efficient, packaged in a contemporary
industrial design, I think we achieved the objectives we set out for: a sleek, compact and

transportable ATX PC, the GT3.