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Mr. Bendis has served as a Director since 1986. Mr. Bendis is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bendis Investment Group LLC, {BIG} a Global financial intermediary firm that has a formal joint venture management agreement with Drawbridge Special Opportunities Advisors LLC, an affiliate of the Fortress Investment Group, {NYSE, FIG}. Most recently, Mr Bendis served as Chairman, President and CEO of True Product ID, a global publicly traded anti-counterfeiting company {NASDAQ, TPDI}. Previously, he had been the Founder, President and CEO of Innovation Philadelphia (IP}. IP is a public/private partnership dedicated to growing the wealth and the workforce of the Greater Philadelphia Region. Prior to 2001, he was President and CEO of Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC), an entity formed to encourage investment and growth in the State of Kansas. Mr. Bendis, also, has been a corporate executive with Quaker Oats, Polaroid, Texas Instruments, Marion Laboratories, Kimberly Services and Continental Healthcare Systems. Continental was an Inc. 500 software company, which he successfully took public on NASDAQ {CHSI}. In addition, Mr. Bendis founded and managed R.A.B. Ventures, a venture capital firm which invested in early-stage technology and healthcare businesses. He is a frequent international consultant and speaker for the United Nations, NATO and The European Commission, and serves on several Not For Profit Boards. | 