Alan G. Merten was unanimously elected to the Board of Trustees on October 27, 2005, by the members of the Board to fill a vacancy created when the size of the Board was increased. Dr. Merten has served as President of George Mason University since July 1996. He was Dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management of Cornell University from 1989 to 1996, the Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Florida from 1986 to 1989, and Associate Dean for Executive Education and Computing Sciences at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1986. Dr. Merten serves on the Board of Trustees of mutual funds affiliated with Legg Mason Partners and the Board of Directors of INOVA Health System and Xybernaut Corporation, a publicly traded mobile computing devices company. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University.