Larry W. Sonsini specializes in the fields of corporate law, securities, and mergers and acquisitions at the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Mr. Sonsini has been a Member of the faculty at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley since 1985. He also lectures, from time to time, at other law schools, including Stanford University School of Law. His course of instruction includes the federal and state securities laws, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. In 1999 Mr. Sonsini was selected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition, Mr. Sonsini is a Member of the American Law Institute and a Member of the Board of Advisors to the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly a trustee at the University of California, Berkeley (1990-1996). In 2001 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange and is a member of the NYSE's Corporate Accountability and Listing Standards Committee. Mr. Sonsini has also served on a number of advisory boards and committees, including: The SEC's Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes; ABA Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities; Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Governors, New York Stock Exchange; Legal Advisory Board of the NASD, Inc.; Board of Advisors, Technical Law Journal, Boalt Hall. He was recently chosen as the Honorary Chair of the High Technology Law Institute at Santa Clara University. Mr. Sonsini has also served on numerous Board of Directors. Currently he is a Director of the following public companies: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., Echelon Corporation, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, LSI Logic, Inc., Tibco Software, Inc., PIXAR, Inc.