Carll Tucker, age 55, has served as a director of the Company since August 2007 and also from 2002 until March 2007. In 1986, he founded Trader Publications, which published The Patent Trader newspaper and various local magazines and programs for cultural institutions in New York and Connecticut. Mr. Tucker was President of Trader Publications until 1999, when it was sold to the Gannett Corporation. Mr. Tucker was a weekly columnist in The Patent Trader for seventeen years. Prior to that, he was a regular columnist for Saturday Review magazine and The Village Voice in New York City. Mr. Tucker served as a director of the Bank of New York and trustee of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. He was a trustee of Northern Westchester Hospital Center and its Chairman of the Board from 1999 through 2001. He is currently Founding Chairman of Northern Westchester Hospital Foundation and a director of the Milbank Memorial Fund. He is the author of The Bear Went Over the Mountain, which will be published in March 2008. |