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Mr. Denny serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. He joined our Board of Directors in 1996 following his retirement from Sears where he was Chief Financial Officer and subsequently Vice Chair with oversight responsibility for a significant portion of the company’s operations and staff functions. He is a former director of Astra AB and previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Planning officer of G.D. Searle & Co. as well as chairman as Pearle Health Services Inc. a Searle-affiliated publicly-held company. He is a past chairman of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Northwestern Memorial Foundation. He is currently a director of GATX Corporation and a member of the advisory boards for several privately-held fund management companies. His prior experience unrelated to healthcare include directorships at ChoicePoint Inc. The Principal Financial Group The Allstate Corporation where he chaired the Audit Committee and General Instruments Inc. where he chaired the Audit Committee. Mr. Denny also served as Senior Advisor at William Blair Capital Partners Treasurer at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and associate counsel at Dewey Ballantine Bushly and Wood where he practiced law in New York and Paris. | 