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Tony C. Banks was appointed as a member of the Company's Board of Directors, on September 15, 2006. Mr. Banks has been Vice President of Business Development for FirstEnergy Corporation, a public utility, since December 2005. Mr. Banks joined FirstEnergy Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corporation, in August 2004 as Director of Marketing and in August 2005 became Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Before joining FirstEnergy, Mr. Banks was a consultant to utilities, energy service companies and energy technology firms. From 2000 through 2002, Mr. Banks was President of RAI Ventures, Inc., a subsidiary of Resource America, Inc., a specialized asset management company, and Chairman of the Board of Optiron Corporation, which was an energy technology subsidiary of Atlas America, Inc., an energy company engaged primarily in the development and production of natural gas, and, to a lesser extent, oil, until 2002. | 