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Mr. Jacobstein served as President and Chief Operating Officer and a director of the Company since January 1993. He was elected to the position of Chairman and CEO on November 22, 1999. After joining Teknowledge in 1984, Mr. Jacobstein was promoted over a nine year period to: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Manager of the Research and Advanced Development Group, Vice President and General Manager of Research and Advanced Systems Development, and Vice President and General Manager of the Knowledge Systems Division. He ran Teknowledge's only profitable division for 8 years, prior to turning around the Company and making it profitable in 1994. Mr. Jacobstein initiated Teknowledge's eCommerce business unit in 1996. In 1998, he was appointed to the Technology Advisory Board of the U.S. Army's Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM). Prior to joining Teknowledge, he was a Graduate Research Intern and consultant at Xerox PARC, and a Research Associate at CBNS. Mr. Jacobstein received his BS in Environmental Science Summa cum Laude from the University of Wisconsin, and an MS in Human Ecology from the University of Texas, in conjunction with NASA's Environmental Physiology Simulation Program. Since 1992, he has served as the Chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a nonprofit organization. In 1999, Mr. Jacobstein was elected a Henry Crown Fellow in the Aspen Institute's executive leadership program. | 