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Michael Mathews has served on the board of directors of PDTI since June 2004. Mr. Mathews is managing director of Westgate Capital Co., a firm he founded in 1993 to identify and structure investment opportunities on behalf of private investors. Mr. Mathews served on the Board of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) from 1993 until September 2002. From 1998 to 2002, he served as Vice Chairman of PGS and held the position as Chairman of the Compensation Committee and was a member of the Audit Committee. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Mathews served as managing director of Bradford Ventures Ltd., a private investment firm involved in equity investments, including acquisitions. Prior to 1989, he was president of DNC Capital Corporation and senior vice president and director of its parent, DNC America Banking Corp., the US subsidiary of Den Norske Credit Bank Group, where he directed merchant banking and investment activity in North America and founded and acted as senior advisor to Nordic Investors Limited, N.V., a private venture capital fund. Previously, Mr. Mathews was a Vice President in Corporate Finance at Smith Barney and prior to that he was an associate with the New York law firm of White & Case. Mr. Mathews received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1962 and received a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1965. Mr. Mathews is also a Director and serves on the Audit Committee and as Chairman of the Governance Committee of Interpool Inc. (NYSE: IPX), and a Director and Vice Chairman of Apptix ASA (OSE: APP). | 