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Mr. Webster is, and has been since July 2005, President and Co-Managing Partner of Avista Capital Partners LP, an investment partnership which focuses on the energy, media and healthcare industries. From 2000 through June 2005 Mr. Webster was Chairman of Global Energy Partners, an affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston’s Alternative Capital Division. From 1988 through 1997, Mr. Webster was Chairman and CEO of Falcon Drilling Company, Inc. (Falcon Drilling) an offshore drilling company he founded, and through 1999, served as President and CEO of R&B Falcon Corporation (R&B Falcon), the successor to Falcon Drilling formed through its merger with Reading & Bates Corporation and Cliffs Drilling Company. Mr. Webster served as a Vice Chairman of R&B Falcon until 2001 when it merged with Transocean, Inc. Mr. Webster serves on the Board of Directors of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., Grey Wolf, Inc., Basic Energy Services Inc., Crown Resources Corporation, Brigham Exploration Company, Goodrich Petroleum Corporation, Camden Property Trust, Hercules Offshore, LLC, Geokinetics Inc. and various private companies. Mr. Webster has also been a director of Seabulk International, Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, since September 2002. | 