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George L. Ball is the Chairman of Sanders Morris Harris Group, a financial services holding company headquartered in Houston that manages approximately $16 billion in client assets. The subsidiaries and affiliates of Sanders Morris Harris Group deliver wealth advisory, asset management, and capital markets services to individual and institutional investors and middle-market companies. Mr. Ball was appointed to the Board of Directors on February 1, 2000, as part of the merger with Sanders Morris Mundy Inc. (the Sanders Transaction) and has served as Chairman since May 2002. At the time of the Sanders Transaction, he served as Chairman of the Board and a director of Sanders Morris Mundy Inc. Mr. Ball also serves as Chairman of the Board and a director of SMH Capital Inc., as a director of SMH Capital Advisors, Inc., and on the management committee of Salient Capital Management, LLC, the general partner of Salient Partners, L.P. and Salient Trust Company, LTA, Edelman Financial Center, LLC, and Select Sports Group Holdings, LLC. He served as a director of Sanders Morris Mundy Inc. from May 1992 to February 2000, and was its non-executive Chairman of the Board from May 1992 to July 1997. From September 1992 to January 1994, Mr. Ball was a Senior Executive Vice President of Smith Barney Shearson Inc. From September 1991 to September 1992, he was a consultant to J. & W. Seligman & Co. Incorporated. Mr. Ball served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc. from 1982 until 1991 and Chairman of the Board from 1986 to 1991. He also served as a member of the Executive Office of Prudential Insurance Company of America from 1982 to 1991. Before joining Prudential, Mr. Ball served as President of E.F. Hutton Group, Inc. Mr. Ball is a member of the Brown University Board of Trustees, a former governor of the American Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and served on the Executive Committee of the Securities Industries Association. He also serves as a director of RediClinic, LLC, a leading provider of high-quality convenience care centers located in retail stores, and several non-profit organizations. | 