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George E. Hartman, 57, was elected a director of the Corporation in March 1997. From 1995 until 1998, Mr. Hartman served as President of Planvest Pacific Financial Corp. ("Planvest Pacific"), a Vancouver-based financial planning firm with U.S. $1 billion of assets under management. Mr. Hartman also served on the board of directors of Planvest Capital Corp., the parent of Planvest Pacific. From 1998 until 2000, Mr. Hartman was Senior Vice President of Financial Concept Group until the firm's sale to Assante Corporation, a North American financial services industry consolidator. At that time, he became Chief Executive Officer of PlanPlus Inc., Canada's oldest firm specializing in the development and distribution of wealth management software to the financial services industry. Mr. Hartman also continues as President of Hartman & Corporation, Inc., a firm he founded in 1991 which provides consulting services to the financial services industry. Since April 2004, Mr. Hartman has worked as a consultant with The Covenant Group, a management consulting firm. Mr. Hartman is the author of Risk is a Four-Letter Word--The Asset Allocation Approach to Investing, a Canadian best-seller published in 1992, and is the author of its sequel, Risk is STILL a Four Letter Word, released in 2000. | 