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Mr. McFarlane joined the Company as a Director in January 2004. He is currently self-employed as a private investor and has served as a Director of Pitney Bowes a provider of mailstream solutions since October 2000. From February 2004 to February 2005 Mr. McFarlane was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ascendent Systems a private communications software company. From March 2001 to April 2002 Mr. McFarlane was President and Chief Executive Officer of Nexsi Systems a provider of high-performance Internet security and traffic management systems. Nexsi Systems filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on May 17 2002 and the technology was acquired by Juniper Networks. From May 1997 to March 2001 Mr. McFarlane held senior executive positions including President of the Service Provider business and President of the software division at Sun Microsystems Inc. a network computing product and service company. Prior to Sun he spent over 17 years at Northern Telecom and Bell Northern Research. Mr. McFarlane holds a B.Sc. and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
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