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Lydia M. Marshall has been a director of the Company since February 1997 and a director of Nationwide Life Insurance Company and Nationwide Life and Annuity Insurance Company since May 2002. Ms. Marshall has been a director of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company and Nationwide Corporation since October 2001 and also serves as a director of Scottsdale Insurance Company a subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. She has been a director of Seagate Technology a designer manufacturer and marketer of hard disc drives since April 2004. Previously she was founder Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Versura Inc. an Internet-based service provider to financial institutions colleges and universities from October 1999 to August 2004. She was Managing Director of Rockport Capital Incorporated a provider of private equity funds for corporate ventures from 1997 to October 1999 and Executive Vice President-Marketing of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) from 1993 to 1997. Prior to that time Ms. Marshall held several positions with Sallie Mae a provider of funds for educational loans and Citicorp a provider of banking and financial services. | 