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Dr. Jones, age 46, joined the Company as a Class I director in April 2004. He is Chairman of the Company�s Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Dr. Jones is a Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean at the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He was an Associate Professor of Marketing from 2002 to 2007 and was an Assistant Professor from 1997 until 2002. He taught at Texas A&M University for several years before joining the faculty of the University of Houston. He served as the Executive Director of the Program for Excellence in Selling and the Sales Excellence Institute at the University of Houston from 1997 until 2007. Dr. Jones also serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and Industrial Marketing Management. He has conducted research and published articles on sales and sales management topics in major journals and is the co-author of a sales textbook, Selling ASAP, and a professional book: Strategic Sales Leadership. Dr. Jones is also an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, American Marketing Association, and the National Conference in Sales Management. Before becoming a professor, Dr. Jones worked in sales and sales management for three Fortune 100 companies: Quaker Oats, Nabisco, and Frito-Lay. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism in 1982, his MBA in 1986, and his Ph.D. in 1997 from Texas A&M University. | 