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Richard K. Davidson has been a member of our board of directors since March 2006. Mr. Davidson served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Union Pacific Corporation from 1997 until February 2007. He started his distinguished railroad career in 1960 with Missouri Pacific Railroad and held various positions of increasing authority before being named Vice President of Operations in 1976. In 1982, Union Pacific merged with the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads, and in 1986, Mr. Davidson was promoted to Vice President of Operations of the combined railroads. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in 1989 and became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Union Pacific Railroad in 1991. He was named Chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Corporation in 1997. Mr . Davidson is currently a member of the board of advisors of Thayer Capital Partners and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. He formerly served on the board of the Association of American Railroads, as chairman of the President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council, and as a director and trustee of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards Foundation. Mr. Davidson graduated from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas in 1966 and has completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard University. | 