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Lenard B. Tessler Managing Director Cerberus. Mr. Tessler joined the Cerberus Companies in 2001. Prior to joining the Cerberus Companies Mr. Tessler served as managing partner of TGV Partners a private equity firm that he founded. Mr. Tessler served as Chairman of the Board of Empire Kosher Poultry Inc. from 1994 to 1997 after acting as its President and Chief Executive Officer from 1992 to 1994. Before founding TGV Partners Mr. Tessler was a founding partner of Levine Tessler Leichtman & Co. a leveraged buy-out firm formed in 1987. From 1982 to 1987 he was a founder director and Executive Vice President of Walker Energy Partners and he subsequently acted as an independent financial consultant to financially troubled companies in the oil and gas industry. Prior thereto Mr. Tessler practiced accounting in New York specializing in tax. Mr. Tessler is a 1973 graduate of the University of Miami. He received his MBA in 1975 from Farleigh Dickinson University. | 