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Erik Hornnaess 68 has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 1998 joined the Audit Committee in 2002 and the Compensation Committee in 2005. Mr. Hornnaess worked for Astra Pharmaceuticals Sweden from 1965 until 1979 in various management positions in Sweden Australia and Canada and for the last three years of this period as the General Manager for the Benelux region (Belgium The Netherlands and Luxembourg). In 1979 he joined Abbott Laboratories European Headquarters in Paris France and from 1982 he was the Area Vice-President of Abbott Diagnostic Division in Europe Middle-East and Africa with headquarters in Wiesbaden Germany. Mr. Hornnaess retired from Abbott Laboratories on March 1 1997 and currently serves as non-executive director of AXIS-SHIELDS Group Scotland and MEDISTIM ASA Norway. Additionally Mr. Hornnaess served as the Vice-President of European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association (EDMA) Brussels in the period 1995 through 1997. Mr. Hornnaess graduated from Aarhus Handelshojskole Denmark with an M.B.A. and obtained a P.M.D. from the Harvard Business School. | 