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Mr. Becker was elected as a Director of theCompany on April 26, 2007. Mr. Becker is also currently serving as Acting Chief Executive Officer and Director of CepTor Corporation (OTC BB: CEPO), a publicly
traded, development stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in New York
City. Before joining CepTor in December 2006, Mr. Becker was Vice President of
Operations of Xechem International, Inc. (OTC BB: XKEM), a development stage
pharmaceutical company based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Prior to joining
Xechem, Mr. Becker served as a management consultant to a number of public and
private companies. Mr. Becker is also a licensed (non-practicing) attorney who
practiced law for eighteen years in New York City, specializing in business
reorganizations and corporate restructurings, including ten years with Kaye,
Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP. He also has been associated with Skadden,
Arps and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP. Mr. Becker graduated MAGNA CUM
LAUDE from Tufts University in 1981 and received his law degree from the
University of Michigan Law School in 1984. | 