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J. Gentry Barden has served as Senior Vice President Corporate General Counsel and Secretary of the company since July 2005. From September 2003 to July 2005 Mr. Barden was a member of Brentwood Capital Advisors LLC an investment banking firm based in Nashville Tennessee that advised the company in the recapitalization. From September 2000 to February 2003 Mr. Barden was a managing director of McDonald Investments Inc. an investment banking subsidiary of Cleveland Ohio-based KeyCorp in its Nashville office. From December 1998 to June 2000 Mr. Barden was a managing director and member of J.C. Bradford & Co. LLC a Nashville-based investment banking firm and co-directed its mergers and acquisitions operations. Mr. Barden has approximately 12 years' experience as a corporate and securities lawyer from 1986 through 1998 including approximately seven years with Bass Berry & Sims PLC in Nashville Tennessee the company's outside counsel in this offering. Mr. Barden graduated with a B.A. from The University of the South (Sewanee) and holds a J.D. from the University of Texas. | 