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Mr. Intrater has been nominated by our Board of Directors. Since January 2005 Mr. Intrater has been a director of Moscow CableCom Corp.a company that provides television radio data transmission and Internet access services through a hybrid-fiber coaxial network (the HFC Network or last mile access network) in Moscow Russia. Since January 2000 Mr. Intrater has been the Chief Executive Officer of Columbus Nova a private investment firm with offices in New York Los Angeles Charlotte and Moscow. Columbus Nova manages in excess of $1.5 billion of investor capital through public and private investment vehicles. Mr. Intrater also serves as the Senior Managing Partner of Columbus Nova�s investment business including Columbus Nova Capital and Columbus Nova Opportunity Fund and is a former Director of Renova Management a global leader in energy base metals and mining industries. Columbus Nova is the U.S.-based affiliate of the Renova Group of companies one of the largest Russian strategic investors in the metallurgical oil machine engineering mining chemical construction housing & utilities and financial sectors with net assets of approximately $9 billion at the end of 2005. Renova Group of companies is a shareholder of leading mining and industrial entities in the Russian and global business communities such as TNK-BP OJSC SUAL-Holding and CJSC Integrated Energy Systems. In addition Renova Group of companies have affiliated investment companies that operate in real estate (Renova-Development Renova-Stroi-Group) portfolio investment (Direct Investments Fund) and intangible asset management (Institute for Corporate Development). From 1985 to 2000 Mr. Intrater served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Oryx Technology Corp. and its predecessor ATI a leading manufacturer of semi-conductor testing equipment based in Silicon Valley. Mr. Intrater serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Moscow Cablecom Corp. a company listed on the Nasdaq Global Market. | 