Gregory J. Witherspoon joined the Company in August 2005 as Interim Chief Financial Officer and was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in January 2006. Mr. Witherspoon was a managing director with the financial consulting firm, Plan Bravo Partners, LLC from 1998 through 2006. Prior to this, Mr. Witherspoon was Chief Financial Officer of Aames Financial Corporation from 1997 to 1998, a publicly listed financial services company. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Witherspoon served as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Approved Financial Corp., a Virginia-chartered financial institution. Prior to this time, he was a CPA with two of the major public accounting firms. |