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Charles A. Dickinson has been a director of the Company since August 2001, and was elected Chairman of the Board in April, 2006. Mr. Dickinson twice served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Solectron Corporation, a $20 billion per-year worldwide leader in electronics manufacturing, assembly, and test services for electronic companies around the world. He was a director of Solectron from 1984 to 2004 and served as Chairman from 1986 to 1990 and from 1994 to September 1996. While an outside director, he accepted the assignment of establishing Solectron's European business in 1991 and served as President of Solectron Europe from 1993 to February 1996. From January 2000 to August 2001 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of SAL, Inc. (which was acquired by the Company in 2001). Before joining Solectron, Mr. Dickinson was Chairman, President and CEO of Vermont Micro Systems, Inc. He was also CEO of Dataproducts Corporation and he served seven years in various general management roles at Control Data Corporation. Prior to that, he was the Corporate Vice President of Manufacturing for Memorex and spent 20 years at RCA. He has served on the Boards of many other public and private companies over the years and currently is the Chairman of LeCroy Corporation, Inc., a public company, and privately-held Aavid Thermal Technologies, Inc., Nypro, Inc. and Systolic Networks. Mr. Dickinson holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Minnesota. | 