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Richard P. Kiphart has served as Lead Independent Director of Saflink since November 2005, and was Chairman of the Board from August 2004 to November 2005. Since January 1995, he has served as head of the Corporate Finance Department and Principal of William Blair & Company, L.L.C., an investment firm. He currently sits on the Board of First Data Corporation, where he has been a Director since First Data’s acquisition of Concord EFS early in 2004. He served on the Concord EFS Board of Directors from 1997 until 2004 and was Chairman of the Concord Board of Directors from February 2003 until March 2004. Mr. Kiphart is a Director of Photo Control Corp. and Advanced Biotherapy, Inc. He is also Chairman of the Merit Music School and serves on the Board of Directors for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Erikson Institute and DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa). Mr. Kiphart graduated from Dartmouth College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. | 