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Carl Icahn has served as chairman of the board and a director of Starfire Holding Corporation, a privately-held holding company, and chairman of the board and a director of various subsidiaries of Starfire, since 1984. Effective August 9, 2007, through his position as Chief Executive Officer of Icahn Capital Management LP, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Real Estate Partners, L.P., and certain related entities, Mr. Icahn’s principal occupation is managing private investment funds, including Icahn Partners LP, Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, Icahn Partners Master Fund II L.P. and Icahn Partners Master Fund III L.P. Prior to August 9, 2007, Mr. Icahn conducted this occupation through his entities CCI Onshore Corp. and CCI Offshore Corp. Since February 2005, Mr. Icahn has served as a director of CCI Onshore Corp. and CCI Offshore Corp., which until August 9, 2007, were in the business of managing private investment funds, and from September 2004 to February 2005, Mr. Icahn served as the sole member of their predecessors, CCI Onshore LLC and CCI Offshore LLC, respectively. Mr. Icahn was also chairman of the board and president of Icahn & Co., Inc., a registered broker-dealer and a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, from 1968 to 2005. Since 1994, Mr. Icahn has been the principal beneficial stockholder of American Railcar Industries, Inc., currently a publicly-traded company that is primarily engaged in the business of manufacturing covered hopper and tank railcars, and has served as chairman of the board and as a director of American Railcar Industries, Inc. since 1994. Since November 1990, Mr. Icahn has been chairman of the board of American Property Investors, Inc., the general partner of American Real Estate Partners, L.P., a public limited partnership controlled by Mr. Icahn that invests in real estate and holds various other interests, including the interests in its subsidiaries that are engaged in, among other things, the fund management business, the casino entertainment business (which is currently under a contract of sale) and the home textile business. From October 1998 through May 2004, Mr. Icahn was the president and a director of Stratosphere Corporation, which operates the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino. From September 29, 2000 to February 22, 2007, Mr. Icahn served as the chairman of the board of GB Holdings, Inc., which owned 41.7% of Atlantic Coast Holdings, Inc., which through its wholly-owned subsidiary, owned and operated The Sands casino in Atlantic City until November 16, 2006. Mr. Icahn has been chairman of the board and a director of XO Holdings, Inc. and its predecessor since January 2003. XO Holdings is a publicly traded telecommunications services provider controlled by Mr. Icahn. Mr. Icahn has served as a Director of Cadus Corporation, a publicly traded company engaged in the ownership and licensing of yeast-based drug discovery technologies since July 1993. In May 2005, Mr. Icahn became a director of Blockbuster Inc., a publicly traded provider of in-home movie rental and game entertainment. Since September 2006, Mr. Icahn has served as a director of ImClone Systems Incorporated, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and in October 2006, Mr. Icahn was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of ImClone. Mr. Icahn received his B.A. from Princeton University. |
