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J. Kermit Birchfield, Jr. has served on our board of directors since November 1995 and was our Chairman from June 1996 to January 2001. He has been a private business consultant since 1995, prior to which he was Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel for M/ACOM, Inc., a managing director of Century Partners Incorporated, a private investment partnership, and Senior Vice President, Legal and Governmental Affairs and General Counsel for Georgia-Pacific Corporation. He also serves as chairman and lead independent director of the Compass Group of Funds of Massachusetts Financial Services, a director of the offshore funds of Massachusetts Financial Services and a director of Intermountain Industries, Inc., a privately-owned energy distribution and production company. He is a managing member of DTech Investments LLC, one of our principal stockholders. Mr. Birchfield received a B.S. from Roanoke College and a L.L.B. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. | 