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Rodolfo A. Ruiz, 57, has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2003. Since 2004, Mr. Ruiz has served as Executive Vice President - Spirits for Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Ruiz served as the President and CEO of Bacardi U.S.A. and held a series of senior management positions within the Bacardi organization since 1979, inclusive of having served as President and CEO of Bacardi Global Brands, President and CEO of Bacardi Asia/ Pacific Region, and several senior executive sales, marketing, financial and operations positions within Bacardi USA. Prior to joining Bacardi, from 1966 to 1979, Mr. Ruiz, in his capacity as a certified public accountant, served as a Senior Auditor, Senior Internal Auditor, and Audit Manager with Price Waterhouse & Co. for a wide variety of public and private clients and projects in the United States and Mexico, as well as throughout Latin America, interspersed by a term, from 1973 to 1975, with International Basic Economy Corp, otherwise known as IBEC/Rockefeller Group. Mr. Ruiz holds a Bachelor of Business degree, Cum Laude, from the University of Puerto Rico. | 