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Roy Kannan has served as our Vice President and Chief Information Officer, or CIO, since September 2003. Mr. Kannan is responsible for our global information technology organization and for driving our company’s strategic initiative to extend a virtual business systems network for supporting the business systems network for supporting the business requirements of customers, partners, suppliers and employees. He joined us from the RGM group, a multi-divisional conglomerate, where he was the CIO. His responsibilities included the revamp of our company’s data, voice, network and security infrastructure, as well as the management of information systems, or IS, operations and data centers. During Mr. Kannan’s more than 20 years of experience in the IS industry, he has held senior positions at leading IS solutions companies such as Compaq, Mastek, Digital Equipment and Patni. Mr. Kannan holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Mr. Roy Kannan will be leaving our company and his last day is on March 9, 2007. | 