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Mr. Perito, 69, is the Company’s Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer. He has served as Chairman of the Company since August 2000, as a director of the Company since December 1999 and as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer since November 1999. Mr. Perito served as the Company’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer from June 1999 through November 1999. Previously, Mr. Perito was a senior partner in the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (PHJ&W) from July 1991 until June 1999 when he became a senior counsel to the firm at the time he joined the Company. Mr. Perito resigned his position as senior counsel to PHJ&W as of March 31, 2001 after serving as National Co-Chair of the White Collar Corporate Defense Practice Group at PHJ&W since 1991, and Chair of the Litigation Department in that firm’s Washington, D.C. office since 1995. Prior to his re-entry into private practice, he served as Chief Counsel and Deputy Director of the White House Special Action Office on Drug Abuse Prevention (Drug Czar’s Office) from 1971 to 1973. Mr. Perito was confirmed by the Senate for that position in March 1972. From 1970 to 1971, Mr. Perito served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Crime. Immediately prior to serving the Congress, Mr. Perito was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, U.S. Department of Justice from 1966 to 1970. Mr. Perito graduated from Tufts University, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and from the Harvard Law School. Mr. Perito was a Rotary International Scholar at the Victoria University of Manchester in Manchester, England and in Lund University, Lund, Sweden in P.P.E. in 1960-61 before entering Harvard Law School. Mr. Perito graduated from Harvard Law School (LLB/JD), as an Edward John Noble Scholar, in 1964 and was thereafter admitted to the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar and is admitted to practice in numerous federal District Courts, Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Perito is the President of the Harvard Law School Association of the District of Columbia, a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Law School Association, and Secretary to the Harvard Law School Association. He is Chairman of the Harvard Law School Class of 1964 Reunion and Fund Committees. Also, Mr. Perito is a member of the International Board of Overseers of Tufts University. | 