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Larry A. Jobe was elected by our Board of Directors on January 4, 2006 to serve as a Class I Independent Director and replace Donald Buchholz who resigned on January 4, 2006. Mr. Jobe serves as Chairman of Legal Network, Ltd, a firm he founded in 1993 that provides staffing and litigation support to law firms and corporate legal departments. He also currently serves as President and founder of P 1 Resources, LLC which has provided engineering and light industrial staffing services to the construction industry since 1994. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Jobe was Chairman and founder of Mitchell Jobe & Company, a provider of professional staffing services for government and industry. From 1973 to 1991, he served in various capacities, including member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee, with the accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP. In 1969, he was appointed by the United States President Richard Nixon to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration at the United States Commerce Department. Mr. Jobe currently serves as the Chairman of Independent Bank of Texas, SWS Group, Inc. Board, and is also Chairman of the Audit Committee for U.S. Home Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ symbol USHS). In addition, Mr. Jobe serves on the Audit Committee of SWS Group, Inc., a Dallas-based New York Stock Exchange member. He is a Certified Public Accountant who received a B.B.A. degree from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Mr. Jobe is also Chairman of the Board of Dallas Seminary Foundation and a Trustee of Grace Academy, the Eisenhower Institute, and the University of North Texas Foundation. | 