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Mr. Brown, age 62, joined the Company as a Class I director in November 1997. He is a member of the Company’s Finance, Risk Management and Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Brown is the past Chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market Board of Directors and a past governor of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Mr. Brown joined Microsoft Corporation in 1989 as its Treasurer and became its Chief Financial Officer in 1993, in which capacity he served until his retirement in July 1997. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Brown spent 18 years with Deloitte & Touche LLP. Mr. Brown is also a director of EMC Corporation, VMware, Inc., 360networks, FatKat, Inc., Pipeline Financial Group, Inc., DayJet Corporation, and Thomas Weisel Partners and serves on the audit committees of EMC Corporation, Thomas Weisel Partners and VMware, Inc. He is a member of the Particle Economics Research Institute. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Washington in Seattle. | 