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Donald M. Blake, Jr. was appointed to the Board of Directors on February 26, 2003. He is Executive Vice President and Principal of Joseph J. Blake and Associates, Inc. ("Blake and Associates"), an international commercial real estate due diligence firm. The company founded by his grandfather specializes in the valuation of debt and equity and assessment reports for engineering and environmental issues concerning real property. Over the past 57 years, the firm has served the nation's leading investors, lenders and owners of real estate. Blake and Associates maintains operations throughout the United States, Latin America and Japan. Mr. Blake, Jr. is a Member of the Appraisal Institute and is active with a variety of real estate organizations such as the Mortgage Bankers Association, Pension Real Estate Association, The Commercial Mortgage Securitization Association and the Urban Land Institute. Former Governor Mario Cuomo of New York appointed Mr. Blake, Jr. to the charter advisory board of the New York State Appraisal Certification Board. The board developed the standards and ethical standards for all licensing and certification for appraisers in accordance with state legislation. He was also appointed to the real estate advisory board of the business school of Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Mr. Blake, Jr. received a BA from Hobart College, Geneva, New York in 1979 and a MSM with a concentration in commercial real estate finance from Florida International University, Miami, Florida in 1981. | 