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DEBRA A. CAFARO joined the Company as Chief Executive Officer and President on March 5, 1999. Ms. Cafaro was appointed Chairman of the Board effective January 28, 2003. From April 1997 to May 1998, she served as President and Director of Ambassador Apartments, Inc. (NYSE:AAH), a real estate investment trust ("REIT"). Ms. Cafaro was a founding member of the Chicago law firm Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg, specializing in real estate, finance and corporate transactions. From 1988 to 1992 Ms. Cafaro served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School. Ms. Cafaro is admitted to the Bar in Illinois and Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("NAREIT"), the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School and a former Chapter Director of the National Association of Corporate Directors. (DOB: December 15, 1957) | 