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Mr. O. Lee Tawes III has been a Director since 2001. He is Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking and a Director at Northeast Securities Inc. From 2000 to 2001 he was Managing Director of Research for C.E. Unterberg Towbin an investment and merchant banking firm specializing in high growth technology companies. Mr. Tawes spent 20 years at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and CIBC World Markets where he was Director of Equity Research from 1991 to 1999. He was also Chairman of the Stock Selection Committee at CIBC a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Commitment Committee. From 1972 to 1990 Mr. Tawes was an analyst covering the food and diversified industries at Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1972 to 1979 and Oppenheimer from 1979 to 1990. As food analyst he was named to the Institutional Investor All America Research Team five times from 1979 through 1989. Mr. Tawes is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MBA from Darden School at the University of Virginia. | 