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John Stiska joined our Board of Directors on October 11, 2006, and is chair of our Audit Committee and a member of our Compensation Committee. Mr. Stiska is currently the Chairman of Commercial Bridge Capital, LLC, a venture lending fund formed in 1999. He is also a Principal of Regent Partners, LLC and serves as a Senior Advisor of Agility Capital. In May 2002 he was elected CEO of JNI Corp. (NASDAQ:JNIC) to serve on an interim basis after termination of the company’s CEO. Upon the election of the new CEO, Mr. Stiska was elected and continued to serve as Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee until JNI was acquired by Applied MicroCircuits Corp (NASDAQ:AMCC). From December 2002 through June 2005 he was on the Board of Directors of Venture Holdings, a Detroit based supplier to the auto OEM’s and parent of Peguform Europe and its subsidiaries in Germany, France, Czech Republic and Spain. He joined QUALCOMM, Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) in February 1996 as Corporate Senior Vice President and in January 1997 was given the additional responsibility of General Manager of the Technology Applications Group, positions he retained until leaving the company in mid-1998 to form DC Acquisition. From 1998 through June 2000 he was Of Counsel to the law firm of Latham & Watkins. Prior to joining QUALCOMM, Mr. Stiska was Chairman & CEO from 1993 to 1996 of Triton Group, Ltd. (ASE:TGL), an operating holding company based in San Diego. Before joining Intermark, Inc. and Triton Group, Ltd. in 1990, he was a practicing lawyer for 20 years: Partner in the San Diego office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison from 1987 to 1990; partner and founder of the corporate department of Aylward, Kintz, Stiska, Wassenaar and Shannahan from 1981 to 1987; and associate and partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps. In February 1998 Mr. Stiska received the Award of Director of the Year for Companies in Transition from the Corporate Directors Forum of San Diego. Mr. Stiska attended the University of Wisconsin where he earned his BBA in 1965 and his law degree (JD) in 1970. | 