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P. George Benson, PhD, was elected a Director of the Company in July 1998. In February 2007, he became the 21st President of the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Prior to joining the College of Charleston, he was Dean of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia from 1998 through 2006, and held the Simon S. Selig, Jr. Chair for Economic Growth. Dr. Benson was previously the Dean of Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University and a professor of decision sciences at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. In 1996, Business News New Jersey named Dr. Benson one of New Jersey’s Top 100 Business People. In 1997, he was appointed to a three-year term as one of nine judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. In 2004, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce appointed him to the Board of Overseers for the Baldrige National Quality Award and, in 2005, appointed him to two year term as Chairman of the Board of Overseers. In 2007, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Baldrige Award Program. Earlier in his career, Dr. Benson worked in personnel planning for the U.S. Army Security Agency and in information systems for Bell Telephone Laboratories. Dr. Benson serves on the boards of directors of AGCO, Inc., Crawford & Company, and the National Bank of South Carolina. He received a BS in mathematics from Bucknell University and a PhD in Business from the University of Florida. He is co-author of a leading textbook in business statistics. | 