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Mr. Robert La Blanc was appointed Chairman of the Board in June 2008. Mr. La Blanc has served as one of our directors since 2003.
He is President of Robert E. La Blanc Associates, Inc., an information technologies consulting and investment banking firm, and is active in the field of venture capital. Prior to founding La Blanc Associates, in 1981, Mr. La Blanc was Vice Chairman of Continental Telecom, Inc., a diversified telecommunications company providing service to over three million customers in 2,000 communities in 37 states and the Caribbean. Prior to joining Continental, La Blanc, spent ten years with the major investment banking firm of Salomon Brothers Inc. where he was a General Partner and the founder of the firm's telecommunications team. Mr. La Blanc is currently a director of the following public companies: Computer Associates International, Inc., Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Salient 3 Communications, Inc., Storage Technology Corp., Titan Corp., and two families of Prudential Mutual Funds. Mr. La Blanc holds the degrees of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and Master in Business Administration from New York University. He is also a graduate of an extensive technical training program at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. | 