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Steven B. Ruchefsky has served as a director since April 15, 2005. Mr. Ruchefsky, a graduate of The George Washington University Law School, practiced law in New York City for fifteen years. Through 2000, he was a partner of a 80-attorney New York City law firm, chair of its specialized litigation department and member of the firm's management group. In 2000, he left his law firm to establish a family office for one of his high net worth clients. There, Mr. Ruchefsky was responsible for the diversification out of that family's single stock holding, the development and implementation of an investment strategy and for the establishment of operating controls and procedures. In addition, Mr. Ruchefsky was a principal of an early stage/seed venture capital firm established by the family and sat on the boards of several of its portfolio companies. Since September 2001, Mr. Ruchefsky has been working with the founder and chief executive officer of a prominent multi-strategy hedge fund and is responsible for this executive's personal finance, tax and investment decisions in addition to performing special projects for the hedge fund. Since that time, Mr. Ruchefsky has been employed by Caremi Partners Ltd., a significant shareholder of the Company. He currently sits on the boards of several private and not-for-profit companies.
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