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Laurence N. Charney has been a director of our company since May 2008. Mr. Charney retired from his position as a Partner of Ernst & Young LLP in June 2007 having served that firm for over thirty-five years. At Ernst & Young Mr. Charney most recently served as the Americas Director of Conflict Management. In that role he had oversight and responsibility in ensuring compliance with global and local conflict of interest policies for client and engagement acceptance across all service lines. Mr. Charney previously served as an audit partner where his global practice focused on the media and entertainment telecom and software industries servicing public and private companies in addressing their transactional regulatory corporate governance Sarbanes-Oxley tax and accounting challenges. Since July 2007 he has served on the Audit Committee and Board of Directors of Marvel Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: MVL). In June 2007 he completed a term as the Chairman of the Audit Committee of UJA - Federation of New York. Mr. Charney graduated with a BBA degree from Hofstra University and completed the Executive MBA in Business program at Columbia University. | 