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Marshall S. Geller has been a director of the company since 2002. Mr. Geller is co-founder and senior managing director of St. Cloud Capital a Los Angeles based private investment fund formed in December 2001. He is also chairman chief executive officer and founding partner of Geller & Friend Capital Partners Inc. a private merchant bank formed in 1995. Mr. Geller has spent more than forty years in corporate finance and investment banking including twenty one years as a senior managing director of Bear Stearns & Co. with oversight of all operations in Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago Hong Kong and the Far East. Mr. Geller is currently non-executive chairman of the board of ShopNBC-ValueVision Media Inc. (NasdaqNM: VVTV) and serves as a director of 1st Century Bank Los Angeles (Nasdaq:FCNA) Blue Holdings Inc. (NasdaqNM: BLUE) National Holdings Corp. (NHLD.OB) and is on the board of governors of Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles. He was previously the interim co-chairman of Hexcel Corporation (NYSE:HXL) and interim president and chief operating officer of Players International Inc. Mr. Geller also serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Business & Economics at California State University Los Angeles. | 