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Luther Cochrane became a director in January 2006. He is a member of the Compensation Committee and the Audit Committee of the Board. Luther has had a distinguished career of more than 30 years in the construction industry and the legal profession. He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BE&K Building Group Inc. a diversified commercial hospitality healthcare industrial and institutional construction firm nationally recognized for its design-build expertise. He has held several other senior executive positions including Global Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bovis Lend Lease a global real estate group providing a full range of construction development capital structuring and consulting services. Bovis Lend Lease operates in more than 30 countries on six continents and is one of the world's leading companies in the project management and construction services industry. Luther was formerly a senior partner with the Griffin Cochrane and Marshall law firm in Atlanta specializing in real estate and construction law. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also holds a Juris Doctorate degree with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill. | 