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Dr. Gioacchino De Chirico, a director of the Company since 1994, was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company on September 7, 2006. He has served as President of the Company since July 2003. He also served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2004 through October 2004. Prior to assuming his position as President, Dr. De Chirico served as President of Immucor Italia S.p.A., a subsidiary of the Company, from February 1994 through May 1998, then as the Company’s Director of European Operations from May 1998 through July 2003. From 1989 until 1994, Dr. De Chirico was employed by Ortho Diagnostic Systems, Inc. as General Manager, Immunocytometry, with worldwide responsibility. Ortho Diagnostics is a diagnostics subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson that, among other things, produces and distributes blood banking reagents. | 