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General (retired) Chain has been the chairman of Thomas Group, Inc., an international management-consulting firm, since May 1998 and has been a member of the board of directors of Thomas Group, Inc. since May 1995. He served as the president of Quarterdeck Equity Partners, Inc., an investor in the aerospace industry, from January 1996 to January 2003. He also served as special assistant to the chairman of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, a major U.S. freight railroad, from November 1995 to March 1996, and as an executive vice president of Burlington Northern from 1991 to November 1995. For more than five years prior to that time, he served as a General (Commander-in-Chief, the Strategic Air Command) in the U.S. Air Force. He also was a member of the board of directors of RJR Nabisco, Inc. (which became R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc., or RJR, in 1999) from 1994 until June 1999, a member of the board of directors of Nabisco Group Holdings Corp., the former parent of RJR, from 1994 to December 2000, and a member of the RJR board of directors from June 1999 through July 2004. General Chain is a member of the boards of directors of ConAgra Foods, Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, Kemper Insurance and Thomas Group, Inc. | 