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Since January 2001, Mr. Ploth has served as our Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Business Development and Secretary. Mr. Ploth joined us in 1993 and was elected a director at our 2003 annual meeting of stockholders, which was held on January 14, 2004. He served as Vice President, Finance from March 1999 to January 2001. He had previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Business Development from 1993 to 1998 and as Chief Financial Officer from 1998 to March 1999 at which time he also served as General Manager of Fertility Technologies, Inc., a former subsidiary of ours. Previously, Mr. Ploth was employed by Unisyn Technologies where he served concurrently as Chief Financial Officer and as Vice President of Finance and Administration. Mr. Ploth was also Corporate Controller of Synbiotics Corporation. Mr. Ploth has over 24 years of corporate financial and business development experience, with over 22 years experience in the biotechnology industry. Mr. Ploth has a B.S. degree from Montclair State College. | 