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Mr. Searles has been a director of ours since 1989. He has been an independent business consultant since 1989. Before then, he spent 25 years with various Wall Street firms, the last ten years of which were with Bear Stearns (an investment banking firm) as an Associate Director/Limited Partner. He has served as Chairman of the Board of APS Investment Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours (which we will refer to as Investment Services), since May 1998. He currently serves as a director of HealthTronics, Inc., a urology services and equipment manufacturer that is quoted on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "HTRN". Prime was merged into HealthTronics in November 2004. Mr. Searles served as a director of Prime from 1989 until the time of the merger. | 