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Mr. Carreker, age 57, has served as a director of the Company since 1984. Mr. Carreker presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of The Bombay Company, Inc., a home furnishings retailer. Mr. Carreker served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wyndham International, Inc., a hotel management and leasing company, from March 1999 to October 2000. Mr. Carreker served as Chief Executive Officer of Wyndham International, and from January 1998 to June 1999, Mr. Carreker also served as a director of Patriot American Hospitality, Inc. Patriot was a hotel real estate investment trust until it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Wyndham International in June 1999. Mr. Carreker served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Wyndham Hotel Corporation, a national hotel company, from May 1996, and as a director of Wyndham from February 1996, until the merger of Wyndham with Patriot in January 1998. Mr. Carreker also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Trammell Crow Company, a national real estate company, as well as President of Burdines Department Stores, located in Florida. Since October 2002, Mr. Carreker has served as a director of CBRL Group, a restaurant holding company. His term expires in 2007. John D. Carreker, Jr. and James D. Carreker are brothers. | 