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Mr. Dubach has served as the Vice Chairman of our board of directors since January 2002. He has been an independent business consultant and financial advisor in Zurich, Switzerland for more than 10 years, working with non-food consumer goods, luxury goods, cosmetics, retail and wholesale, banking, e-banking, e-commerce, and pharmaceuticals. From March 2001 to February 2002, Mr. Dubach served as the Chief Investment Officer for Swissquote Bank and a member of the Executive Management Team that developed the first pure Internet Bank in Switzerland. CASH magazine voted Swissquote Bank the best Swiss online broker in autumn 2001 and the bank reached a market share of twenty percent by the end of 2001. From June 1994 to February 2001, Mr. Dubach was a Director of Credit Suisse, where he served as a member of the project team for the legal integration of Volksbank and Credit Suisse as well as the restructuring of the Credit Suisse Group. Prior to June 1994, Mr. Dubach served in several capacities within management and executive management in the pharmaceutical industry and other leading Swiss banks (Louis Widmer Intl, Union Bank of Switzerland, Swiss Volksbank).
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