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Mr. Downes was appointed as a non-executive director to our board of directors in January 2005 and is a financial expert pursuant to Item 401(h)(2) of Regulation S-K. Mr. Downes was the Finance Director of Shanks Group PLC from 1993 until 2006. He has previously held Finance Director positions with Hunter Saphir PLC, MBS PLC and with the brewing division of Grand Metropolitan PLC and trained as a management accountant with Chrysler in Detroit before taking up financial management positions in their European operations and then held various controllerships within Air Products Europe. Mr. Downes is an engineering graduate of Kings College, London University and obtained his MBA from Stanford University, California . He is also a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Association of Corporate Treasurers. | 