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Dr. Kenneth A. Pickar has served as a member of our board since August 2005. Dr. Pickar has served as a board member of Neustar Corporation since 1999 and of H2Scan LLC, since January 2005. He has served on the executive committee of Tech Coast Angels (LA) since 2001 and of the operating committee of Idealab since 2004. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Pickar served on the board of directors of Level One Corporation, which was traded on Nasdaq prior to the company’s sale to Intel Corporation. Previously, Dr. Pickar held executive, research and development and technology positions with corporations including AlliedSignal Aerospace, General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Signetics Corporation, Bell Northern Research and Bell Laboratories. In addition to his extensive business experience, Dr. Pickar has been, since 1998, a visiting professor of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he served as the J. Stanley Johnson Professor from 1999 to 2003. He is also a visiting lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management. Dr. Pickar holds a bachelor of science degree, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in physics and mathematics from City University of New York, and a master’s degree and doctorate of Physics from the University of Pennsylvania. | 