James A. Simms. Mr. Simms is a Managing Director of Needham & Company, LLC, a privately held, full-service investment bank and asset management firm. For the prior two years, he had been a senior professional with the investment banking firm of Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. From 1997 through 2004, he was with the investment banking firm of Adams, Harkness & Hill, Inc. Mr. Simms is a member of Class I of the Company's Board and has been a Director of the Company since October 2001. |