Mr. Lawyer has been a director of the Company since 1994. Since May 2000, Mr.Lawyer has served as Vice Chairman of Reunion Industries, Inc. ("Reunion") which designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of fabricated and machined parts and products and also manufactures high volume, precision plastic parts. Mr. Lawyer served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Reunion from March 2000 until his retirement from that position in May 2000. He has also been a Director of Reunion since March 2000. From 1988 through March 2000, he was President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Chatwins Group, Inc. ("CGI") that merged with Reunion in March 2000. From 1986 to 1988 he was President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of CP Industries, a predecessor company of CGI. Prior thereto, he held various operations, marketing, sales, finance and strategic planning positions for U.S. Steel Corporation for 17 years. |