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Russ Pillar joined the Company’s Board of Directors in November 2007. Mr. Pillar is currently a Managing Director at Catalytic Capital (www.catalyticcapital.com), an investment group that provides growth capital to fund opportunities at the intersection of consumer brands, media, and technology. Over the course of Pillar’s career he has served as both Viacom and CBS’s chief digital media strategy, development and execution executive where, as President of the Viacom Digital Media Group and President and Chief Executive Officer of the CBS Internet Group, he originated and led corporate-wide efforts on the internet and in broadband, wireless, mobile and other interactive media distribution platforms. Prior to his tenure at Viacom he was President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Richard Branson’s Virgin Entertainment Group, where he charted the growth of the Virgin brand in a variety of entertainment, retail, and e-commerce-related consumer markets, managing 1,600 employees across the United States and Canada and driving global strategic planning and brand management as a member of Virgin’s International Management Board. Prior to his tenure at Virgin, he co-led the leveraged buyout, turnaround and subsequent public offering of Prodigy, serving over a more-than-four-year span in a variety of positions including Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and President and Chief Executive Officer of Prodigy Internet. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: PLA - News); over the past two decades he has served as a Board member for more than a dozen public and private media and digital media companies. | 