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Keith. Meister, since March 2006, has served as Principal Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of American Property Investors, Inc. (API), the general partner of American Real Estate Partners, L.P. Mr. Meister served as President of API from August 2003 until July 2005 and as Chief Executive Officer of API from August 2003 until March 2006. American Real Estate Partners is a public limited partnership controlled by Mr. Icahn that invests in real estate and holds various other interests, including the interests in its subsidiaries that are engaged in, among other things, the fund management business, the casino entertainment business and the home textile business. Mr. Meister also serves as a director and/or officer of various direct and indirect subsidiaries of Icahn Enterprises. Mr. Meister is also a Managing Director of Icahn Partners LP, Icahn Partners Master Fund LP and Icahn Partners Master Fund II LP, which are private investment funds managed by subsidiaries of Icahn Enterprises. From March 2000 through 2001, Mr. Meister served as co-president of J Net Ventures, a venture capital fund that he co-founded, focused on investments in information technology and enterprise software businesses. From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Meister served as an investment professional at Northstar Capital Partners, an opportunistic real estate investment partnership. Prior to Northstar, Mr. Meister served as an investment analyst in the investment banking group at Lazard Freres. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of the following companies: XO Holdings, Inc., a telecommunications company that is majority-owned by various entities controlled by Mr. Icahn; American Railcar Industries, Inc., a company primarily engaged in the business of manufacturing covered hopper and tank railcars that is majority-owned by various entities controlled by Mr. Icahn; and BKF Capital Group, Inc., formerly an investment management firm, in which affiliates of Mr. Icahn are stockholders. Mr. Meister received an A.B. in government, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1995. | 