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Mr. Cole R. Capener has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2005 and is a member of the audit committee. He obtained his law degree, with honors, from The George Washington University National Law Centre in 1981. Thereafter, he practiced law in the New York City office of Shearman & Sterling and later joined the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie in its Beijing office in 1986. Mr. Capener became a partner in Baker & McKenzie in 1989, and his practice consisted of advising multinational corporate clients doing business in China. In 2001, he left the firm to establish and manage a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation, Saving African Families Enterprise, which raises funds to procure antiretroviral medicines for families living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan African. In 2005, Mr. Capener became Of Counsel to Baker & McKenzie in China and was a visiting professor of international law at the University of Utah and Fudan University, Shanghai. He currently serves as an independent non-executive director on the board of directors of BMW’s manufacturing joint venture in Shenyang, China, BMW Brilliance Automotive Co. Ltd. He has published a large number of articles on Chinese legal topics. He is admitted to practice law in the states of New York, California and Utah. | 