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Sanford Rich has served as one of our directors since April 2006. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Investments and Portfolio Manager at GEM Capital Management Inc., a specialist manager of High Yield and Convertible Securities portfolios for institutions, and has held this position since November 1995. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Rich was a Managing Director of High Yield Finance, Capital Markets & North American Loan Syndicate, Sales and Trading at Citicorp Securities. From 1985 to 1993, he served as Managing Director of Debt Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch. From 1978 to 1985, Mr. Rich held various Analyst positions in numerous companies, including Cypress Capital Management, Inc. (Vice President and Analyst from 1983 to 1985), FIAMCO (Distressed/High Yield Bond Analyst from 1981 to 1983), Progressive Corporation (Financial Analyst from 1980 to 1981) and Prescott, Ball and Turben (Distressed/High Yield Bond Analyst from 1978 to 1980). | 