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Mr. Comer has served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company since December 2005, and is the founder and Managing Director of Ocean Park Advisors, LLC, a private equity firm founded in 2004 that invests in middle-market companies and provides advisory services to select investors and corporate clients. He has over 15 years experience in business development, finance and operations both in the United States and throughout Asia. Prior to founding Ocean Park Advisors, he was a Principal at Platinum Equity. From 2000 through 2002, Mr. Comer was the Chief Financial Officer of Pacific Crossing, a subsea cable venture that owned and operated a trans-Pacific fiber optic cable system linking Japan and the United States, and was Vice President of Corporate Finance at Asia Global Crossing. The Pacific Crossing venture consisted of the following entities: PC Landing Corp., a Delaware corporation, Pacific Crossing, Ltd., a Bermuda company, Pacific Crossing UK, Ltd., a United Kingdom company, PCL Japan, Ltd., a Japan company, and SCS Bermuda, Ltd., a Bermuda company. In July 2002, these entities filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Comer is a director of Casestack, Inc., an outsourced logistics company, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Princeton-in-Asia. He is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and served on its task force on United States-India Relations. Mr. Comer received a Bachelor’s degree cum laude from Princeton University; a Master’s degree with Distinction in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Wharton School. | 