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Jonathan Newcomb is currently a Senior Advisor at the New York investment firm Coady Diemar Partners, with which he first became affiliated in November 2004. Mr. Newcomb was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambium Learning, an education company located in Boston, from February 2006 until March 2007. Prior to that, he was a principal at Leeds Equity Partners, a New York private equity firm that invests primarily in information, education and training businesses. Mr. Newcomb served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Simon & Schuster from 1992 until 2002. He also held positions as President and Chief Operating Officer and President of the Professional Publishing Group at Simon & Schuster from 1989 until 1994, and prior to that as President of McGraw-Hill’s Financial and Economic Information Company. Mr. Newcomb was elected to the Board in February 2005 and is a member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Newcomb is also a director and member of the audit committee at both BNA Corp. and United Business Media. | 