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Dominik M. F. Brunner has served as a director of W. P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. since May 2004. Mr. Brunner is currently the Principal of FIRST CAPITAL INVESTMENTS LTD., a private company he founded in 1997, providing investment-banking services to European mid-sized enterprises. Also, in 1997, Mr. Brunner founded and operated DOMINIK BRUNNER - SERVICOS FINANCEIROS, LDA (DBSF). DBSF provided financial consulting in Portugal and acted as a representative of CLARIDEN BANK, a Credit Suisse Group company. The operations of DBSF were sold to CLARIDEN BANK AG at the end of 2003. From 1993 to 1997 Mr. Brunner was the Co- Managing Partner of ESPIRITO SANTO DEVELOPMENT CAPITAL INVESTORS. LTD., a $100 million private equity fund, sponsored by the Espirito Santo Group of Portugal and whose investors included financial institutions from Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Previously, Mr. Brunner was involved in the European chemicals industry and the international trading industry as an executive and management board member of several companies. | 