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Mr. Dance is responsible for the overall management and control of all accounting and finance related functions for the Company. He joined Essex on February 15 2005. Prior to joining the Company and from September 2002 Mr. Dance owned and operated a private consultancy practice that provided audits and SOX compliance consultation and litigation support. In addition since the fall semester of 2002 Mr. Dance has been an adjunct Professor for the University of California at Berkeley HAAS School of Business and in July 2005 he was named the Executive Director at the Center for Financial Reporting and Management at the University of California at Berkeley HAAS School of Business. Michael Dance began his career at KPMG LLP in 1978 and from 1990 to 2002 was a partner with KPMG LLP where he worked with clients in the real estate construction health care and technology industries. He graduated from California State University Hayward with a B.A. in Economics and has been an active California CPA since 1980. Mr. Dance is a member of the AICPA and California State Society of CPA's. | 