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Hoyt Ammidon, Jr., has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 1998. Mr. Ammidon currently serves on our Audit Committee and our Management and Compensation Committee. He served as a managing director of Berkshire Capital Corporation, a private company that provides merger and acquisition related services to the investment management and securities industries, from November 1994 to January 2004 and as an advisory director since January 2004. Prior thereto, he held various executive positions at Cazenove Incorporated, a brokerage firm, The Chase Manhattan Investment Bank and E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc. Mr. Ammidon serves as a director and chairman of the audit committee of the board of directors of Balchem Corporation, a public company that is subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act), which manufactures microencapsulated products and is a specialty repackager of industrial gases. Mr. Ammidon received his B.A. degree in History from Yale University. | 