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Richard Collato joined our Board of Directors on October 11, 2006, and is chair of our Nominating and Governance Committee and a member of our Compensation Committee. Mr. Collato is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the YMCA of San Diego County and has been since January 1981. [The YMCA of San Diego County is the 2nd largest YMCA in the United States (over $114 million in annual revenues, more than 4,500 employees and 240,000 members and participants).] In addition to our Company, Mr. Collato is a director for two public companies: Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) where he chaired the Audit Committee for 3 years and currently serves on the Governance and Compensation Committees, and WD-40 (NASDAQ: WDFC) currently serving on the Audit Committee and chairing the Compensation Committee. He is also a director for Project Design Consultants, a San Diego based civil engineering company, where he chairs the Compensation Committee, as well as a Trustee, Vice Chairman of the Board, Chair of the Governance Committee and member of Investment, Compensation and Executive Committees of the YMCA Retirement Fund headquartered in New York City. [Mr. Collato was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and following his assignment in New York at the YMCA in which he grew up, he was asked to relocate to the west coast at age of 26 to become the nation’s youngest YMCA executive director at that time, serving the YMCA of Orange County.] Mr. Collato was a member of the Rotary Club from 1971 to 2002 and served as president in 1978. Mr. Collato was named Director of the Year 2002 by the Corporate Directors Forum. He is a graduate from Pepperdine University School of Business having earned his MBA Degree in Management. Mr. Collato also earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a major in finance and insurance. | 