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Mr. Matthews was elected to the board of directors in March 2003. Retired from active management, he currently serves as a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee for Nortrax Incorporated of Moline, Illinois, a large John Deer equipment dealership. He is also a director and audit committee member of Imation Corp., an NYSE-listed data storage provider, and a director of Mercantile Funds, Inc., a family of mutual funds. Mr. Matthews brings extensive experience in the accounting, financial and audit fields of corporate management from having served as chief financial officer of two large public corporations. From 1999 until 2001, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and member of the board of directors for Ecolab, Inc., a NYSE-listed developer and marketer of cleaning and sanitizing products and services. From 1977 to 1998, Mr. Matthews served in various capacities with Union Pacific Corporation, including as Executive Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer from 1988-1998, and as a member of the board of directors from 1994 to 1998. He also served as a director and member of the Compensation Committee and as Chairman of the Audit Committee of Lexent, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed infrastructure services company, from 1998 to January 2003. Mr. Matthews earned a Master of Business Administration in Finance and General Business from the Univeristy of Virginia's Darden School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Hampden-Sydney College. | 