Stanley E. Maron was elected to our board of directors in September 1997. Since 1994, he has served as a senior partner in the law firm of Maron & Sandler, a Professional Corporation, which he co-founded. He specializes in corporate and tax law. Prior to forming Maron & Sandler, he was a senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, serving the firm from 1975 to 1994. Mr. Maron currently serves as a director of Nextera Enterprises, Inc., which engages in the discovery, development and marketing of consumer products for personal care needs, as a director of Heron International, a European real estate development company, and also serves as an officer and director of privately held companies affiliated with Knowledge Learning Corporation, the nation's largest for-profit provider of early child care learning. Mr. Maron received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Maron has served on our Audit Committee since July 2006. |