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Clark Schaffer became a member of the Board of Directors and its Audit Committee in August 2005 and has served as Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee since October 2006. He attended the University of North Florida and graduated with a BBA in Accounting in 1982. His previous employment history includes two years of audit for Smoak, Davis, and Nixon, CPA’s in Jacksonville, Florida. He followed that as a sole practitioner in St. Augustine for fifteen years where he served small to medium sized businesses. In the late nineties, Mr. Schaffer left public accounting to pursue financial positions in the private sector where he served as Controller for a privately held company and as Director of Finance, then CFO, of Balfour Beatty Rail, a division of a $5B multi-national public company. In 2004, he resigned to start three new companies: Books on Time Technology (a CPA firm) serving small businesses; CFOTrend (a technology consultancy) serving medium to large corporations; and Schaffer Consulting (CFO services). In 2006, he accepted the role of CFO for Hickory Foods, which manages Henry’s Hickory House, LLC and Bubba Foods, LLC, manufacturer of the branded Bubba Burger. Both operating companies are in part owned by John Morrell - a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods. He has held his CPA license in the State of Florida since 1987. | 