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Mr. J. Donald Payne has served as a director of the Company since December 30, 2003. Since September 2001, Mr. Payne has served as President and a Director of Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., an early-stage, privately-held medical device company developing products for cancer, ophthalmology, and bio-defense diagnostics. Prior to that, Mr. Payne held various executive positions in finance and administration of public and private life science companies since 1992, served as a financial executive in the energy industry from 1980 through 1990, and was in public accounting from 1976 to 1980. Mr. Payne received an MBA from Rice University in 1992 and a BBA from Texas A&M University in 1976. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Texas, and a member of the AICPA and Financial Executives Institute. | 