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Wayne R. Peterson served as the Company’s Executive Vice President since its inception, and its Chief Operating Officer since May 2001, until his retirement on December 31, 2002. Mr. Peterson has been a director of the Company since its inception in 1994, and served as a consultant to the Company through the end of 2003. In 1991, Mr. Peterson co-founded the Company's predecessor, Amsco Sterile Recoveries, Inc., and served as its Vice President until the Company acquired it in 1994. Before joining Amsco Sterile Recoveries, Mr. Peterson was President of Agora Development, Inc., a real estate development company that from 1987 to 1991 developed projects totaling 2,000,000 square feet in four states (California, Nevada, Arizona, and Illinois) for a total combined value of $278 million. | 