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Mr. Loeb has been a director since June 28, 2006. He is a member of the Compensation and Governance and Nominating Committees.
Mr. Loeb is Chief Executive Officer of Third Point LLC, an investment management firm based in New York that he founded in 1995. In 1994, Mr. Loeb was Vice President of high yield sales at Citigroup, and from 1991 to 1993, he was Senior Vice President in the distressed debt department at Jefferies & Co. Mr. Loeb began his career as an Associate in private equity at E.M. Warburg Pincus & Co. in 1984. Mr. Loeb is also Chairman of the Board of American Restaurant Group and serves as a director of the following publicly traded companies: Ligand Pharmaceuticals, which engages in the discovery, development and marketing of drugs, and Pogo Producing Company, which explores, develops and produces oil and natural gas. He is a Trustee of Prep for Prep, an organization dedicated to facilitating education and career opportunities for underprivileged youth. | 