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Richard J. Berry has served as a member of our board of trustees since April 2007. Since October 2004, Mr. Berry has served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Independence Capital Partners, a provider of back office services to various private equity funds. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Berry spent 30 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and one of its two predecessors, Price Waterhouse. In 1974, Mr. Berry started as an associate in Price Waterhouse's tax department and was promoted through the organization up to the position of U.S. Tax Chief Executive Officer in 2000 of the combined PricewaterhouseCoopers entity, a position that he held until his retirement in June 2004. From 1972 to 1974, he was owner and operator of Whitby 's & Georgetown beef company and from 1970 to 1972, he served as Assistant Professor of Accounting at Federal City College . Mr. Berry began his career in accounting in 1968 at Ernst & Young. | 