Ms. Ness has been a director since June 2001 and is the chairperson of the company's nominating and governance committee, a member of the audit committee and a member of the compensation committee. She is president and chief executive officer of GreenStone Media, LLC, a radio content production and syndication company formed in 2005. From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Ness was a business consultant to communication companies. She was distinguished visiting professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication (University of Pennsylvania) and director of information and society of the Annenberg Policy Center for the 2001-2002 academic year. Ms. Ness was a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 until 2001. During her tenure with the Federal Communications Commission, Ms. Ness focused extensively on spectrum matters, both domestically and globally, including serving as the Federal Communications Commission’s senior representative to three world radio communications conferences. Prior to joining the Federal Communications Commission, Ms. Ness was a vice president of American Security Bank, a full-service bank located in Washington, DC, and was the group head for lending to communications companies. She also was assistant general counsel to the Banking, Currency and Housing Committee of the United States House of Representatives during the mid-1970s. In May 2003, Ms. Ness became a director of Adelphia Communications Corporation, a cable media company, which had previously filed for bankruptcy in June 2002. |