Dr. Robb, a Director since 1997, served as Chairman of the Audit Committee from July 29, 2004 to December 16, 2004. Since October 31, 2005, Dr. Robb has also served as a Director of MTI Micro. Dr. Robb has been a management consultant and President of Vantage Management, Inc., a management consulting company, since 1993. Prior to that, Dr. Robb was with General Electric Company ("GE") in a number of executive positions. He was Senior Vice President for Corporate Research and Development from 1986 until his retirement on December 31, 1992, directing the GE Research and Development Center, one of the world's largest and most diversified industrial laboratories, and serving on GE's Corporate Executive Council. He served on the Board of Directors of Plug Power Inc., from 1997 through October 9, 2002, and has served as a Director of Celgene Corp., an integrated biopharmaceutical company, since 1992, and serves on boards of a number of privately owned companies. |