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John Stanton (born 1955) has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since 2004. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the Company. He is the managing director of Trilogy Partners and a board member of Alltel Corporation and Columbia Sportswear and a trustee of Whitman College. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Western Wireless Corporation from 1994 until the company was sold to Alltel in 2005. From 1991 to 1994 he was chairman and chief executive officer of both Pacific Northwest Cellular and General Cellular Corporation each a predecessor of Western Wireless Corporation. From 1995 to 2001 he also served as chairman and chief executive officer of VoiceStream Wireless which was spun off from Western Wireless Corporation in May 1999. He served as chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association serving two terms from 1998 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2001. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Whitman College and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. | 