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Jay N. Taylor, age 59, currently serves as a Director of the Company and as Chairperson of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Taylor was initially appointed as a Director in March 2004. Mr. Taylor co-founded Capital Resource Partners, Inc. in 1998 as an investment-banking firm focused on providing merger and acquisition services to the transportation and logistics industry. He has represented many transportation buyers and sellers and evaluated dozens of trucking and logistics companies. In 1995, Mr. Taylor was co-founder, President & CEO of Ampace Corporation, which was an asset-based, publicly traded trucking company serving Fortune 500 shippers. Before that he was Senior Vice President of Country Wide Truck Service, Inc., Senior Vice President of Tri-State Motor Transit, Inc., both public companies and a management consultant focused on trucking company operating performance improvement. From 1979 to 1987, Mr. Taylor was a Vice President of Schneider National, Inc. responsible for marketing, planning and business development for the largest truckload carrier in North America. He was also General Manager of Schneider's western division. Mr. Taylor received his MBA from the University of Iowa in finance and his BS from Iowa State University, concentrating in transportation. | 