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Pat Lavecchia has served as our Secretary and Director since August 2005. He has been a Managing Director at FTN Midwest Securities Corp. since April 2005. Mr. LaVecchia has built and run several major Wall Street private placement groups and has extensive expertise in capital markets including raising capital for private companies and PIPEs. Mr. LaVecchia has also played the leading role in numerous mergers, acquisitions, private placements, high yield transactions, and IPOs. Most recently, Mr. LaVecchia was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Viant Group and a Managing Director of Viant Capital, formerly named Neveric Capital, from 2003 through 2005. Prior to forming Viant Group, Mr. LaVecchia ran several groups at major Wall Street firms including: Managing Director and Head of the Private Equity Placement Group at Bear, Stearns & Company (1994 to 1997); Group Head of Global Private Corporate Equity Placements at Credit Suisse First Boston (1997 to 2000) and Managing Director and Group Head of the Private Finance and Sponsors Group at Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc (2001 to 2003). He was also at Hawk Holdings, a strategic venture capital firm from 2000 until 2001. Mr. LaVecchia received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Clark University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a major in Finance and a concentration in Strategic Planning. | 