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Andrew Melnick retired from Goldman, Sachs & Co. at the end of 2004. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2002 as Co-Director of its Global Investment Research Division and a member of its Management Committee. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he was Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Securities and Economics Research Group of Merrill Lynch. During his 13 years at Merrill Lynch, he expanded the Firm's Research Group from primarily a domestic effort to one with research offices in 26 countries around the world. During that period Merrill Lynch was ranked as the top research department in nearly all regions of the world including six straight times as the number one equity research department in the United States. Previous employment: President of Woolcott & Co. a boutique research and investment banking firm; Director of Research and a Partner of L.F. Rothschild Unterberg Towbin; and Senior Analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Melnick is non-executive chairman of Copal Partners, a provider of financial research and analytics services through client-specific proprietary products, a director of Pop-A-Lock, a car door unlocking, roadside assistance and locksmith service business, and a director of the New York Society of Security Analysts. Mr. Melnick is a graduate of Rutgers, earning a B.A. in Economics and M.B.A. in Finance from that institution. Mr. Melnick is a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.). | 