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Mr. Pontious has served on our board of directors since January 2006. Since May 2005, Mr. Pontious has been a consultant in the areas of business development and acquisitions to Wabtec Corporation, a public company that supplies air brakes and other equipment for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles. In 2005, Mr. Pontious helped Wabtec found Intermodal Trailer Express Corp., an intermodal operating company established to focus on hauling highway trailers over the nation�s railroads. Mr. Pontious is a principal of this newly founded company. Mr. Pontious served Wabtec as vice president of special projects from January 2003 through April 2005 and as vice president of sales and marketing from April 1990 to January 2003. Mr. Pontious also served as vice president of sales and marketing at New York Air Brake Company, a unit of General Signal Corporation, from 1977 to 1990. Prior tho this, Mr. Pontious served the Pullman-Standard division of Pullman, Inc., a freight and passenger railcar manufacturer, from 1961 to 1977 in various management positions in the areas of sales, marketing and operations. Mr. Pontious currently serves as a director of the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver. Mr. Pontious holds a B.B.A. from the University of Minnesota. | 