Mark R. Baker J.D. joined the Company on June 20 2005 as Senior Vice President & General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to joining the Company Mr. Baker was Chief Business Officer Secretary and a director of New York Trans Harbor LLC a privately-held ferry operation in New York City operating under the name New York Water Taxi from January 2003 to June 2005 and Executive Vice President Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of ContiGroup Companies Inc. (formerly Continental Grain Company) a privately-held international agri-business and financial concern from September 1997 to August 2001. Mr. Baker began his career in 1979 as a corporate lawyer with the law firm Dewey Ballantine in New York where he was a partner and Co-Chairman of the Capital Markets Group among other positions serving through August 1997. Mr. Baker was awarded an A.B. degree from Columbia College and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law. |