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Dean S. Woodman has served as a director of our company since September 22 1999. Since July 1999 Mr. Woodman has served as a consultant to public and private companies specializing in financial assignments private equity and debt placements and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Woodman was a Managing Director of ING Barings LLC (and its predecessor Furman Selz) an international investment banking firm from July 1989 to June 1999 and a Managing Director in the investment banking group of Hambrecht & Quist from October 1984 to March 1988. Mr. Woodman was a founding partner of Robertson Colman Stephens & Woodman in 1978 and of Woodman Kirkpatrick & Gilbreath in 1982. Previously Mr. Woodman worked in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch for 23 years where he spent 16 years as director of West Coast corporate financing until 1978. Mr. Woodman serves as a director of SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc. a publicly traded biotechnology company and Plan Express Inc. a privately held provider of Web enabled reprographic and distribution services to the design and construction industry.
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