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Mr. Ubben is a co-founder of and managing member, principal owner and controlling person of ValueAct Capital, an investment partnership with approximately $3.7 billon in assets under management. Prior to co-founding ValueAct Capital in 2000, Mr. Ubben was a managing partner at BLUM Capital Partners (BLUM) for more than five years. During his tenure at BLUM, the firm�s actively managed assets under management grew more than five-fold, to approximately $1.8 billion. Previously, Mr. Ubben spent eight years at Fidelity Management and Research, where he managed two multi-billion-dollar mutual funds, including the Fidelity Value Fund. Mr. Ubben currently serves as a director of four other publicly held companies: Catalina Marketing Corp., Gartner Group, Inc., Mentor Corporation and Per-Se Technologies, Inc. He is a former chairman of the board and director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc., a former director of Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., and a former director at several other public and private companies. He holds a B.A. degree from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. | 