Harvey J. Bazaar has been a director since December 2006 and chairman of our audit committee since April 2007. A certified public accountant, Mr. Bazaar has spent most of his career in public accounting, having retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000 as the Global and Americas Leader for the Capital Markets Group. At Coopers & Lybrand, which merged with PriceWaterhouse to form PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr. Bazaar served on the firm�s Executive Committee and as Managing Partner of the New York City office. In post-retirement, from September 2001 to December 2002, Mr. Bazaar served as the chief operating officer of DML Global Services, a company providing fund accounting and related services to private investment funds and other businesses. Since January 2006, Mr. Bazaar has served on the board of directors and audit committee of BKF Capital Group, Inc., an OTC Bulletin Board company, and has served as its president and chief executive officer since January 2007. Mr. Bazaar holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Kent State University. |