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Has served as a director of the Company since April 1997. Mr. Sofaer is the first George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar & Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, appointed in 1994. He has also been a Professor of Law (by courtesy) at Stanford Law School. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Sofaer was a partner at the legal firm of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed in Washington, D.C., where he represented several U.S. public companies. From 1985 to 1990, he served as Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State, where he was principal negotiator on several international disputes. From 1979 to 1985, he served as a federal judge in the Southern District of New York. Mr. Sofaer is registered as a qualified arbitrator with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court of Arbitration, and the American Arbitration Association; he is also a member of the National Panel of the Center for Public Resolution of Disputes (CPR). He acts regularly as an arbitrator in merger-acquisition disputes, commercial cases involving valuation of technology and securities class action suits. Mr. Sofaer is on the board of directors of Gen-Probe, Inc., and Rambus, Inc. and serves on the International Advisory Committee of Chugai Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. He is president of American Friends of the Koret Israel Economic Development Fund and a director of the Koret Foundation, and is also Chairman of the National Museum of Jazz in Harlem. Mr. Sofaer holds a B.A. degree from Yeshiva College and a L.L.B. degree from New York University. | 