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Armand S. Shapiro has served as our director since 1997 and also chairs the audit committee. Mr. Shapiro serves as a business consultant/mentor to chief executive officers of private companies to develop strategies to improve growth and profitability of the company. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Bindview Development Corporation, a publicly traded corporation that provides software for proactively managing information technology security compliance operations, through January 2006. Mr. Shapiro was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Garden Ridge Corporation from 1990 until June 1999. During the 1980's, Mr. Shapiro also served as President, a member of the executive management team, and a director of ComputerCraft, Inc., then a publicly traded retailer of computer products. He was previously a partner and Chief Operating Officer of Modern Furniture Rentals, Inc., a family-owned and operated business. Mr. Shapiro is a graduate of Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute and has served as an officer in the United States Army. | 