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Mr. Clayton (age 57) has served as a Director of the Company since May 2000. Mr. Clayton has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sirius Satellite Radio (Sirius), a satellite radio broadcaster, since November 18, 2004 and served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sirius between November 2001 and November 17, 2004. Sirius is a publicly traded company which trades under the symbol SIRI. Prior to joining Sirius, Mr. Clayton was President of North American Operations of Global Crossing Ltd. (Global), a global provider of integrated Internet, data, voice and conferencing services, from September 1999 to November 2001. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Clayton was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Corporation (Frontier), a provider of telecommunication services that was purchased by Global in 1999. Prior to joining Frontier, Mr. Clayton served as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales for the Americas and Asia for Thomson, a consumer electronics company, from 1992 through 1996. Mr. Clayton serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, as a Trustee of Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky, and as Trustee of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. He is also a member of the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) Advisory Council. | 