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Paul A. Halpern has been the Chairman of the Board since August 2003. He is the Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee a member of the Audit Committee and an alternate member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Halpern served as acting Chairman of the Audit Committee from the third quarter of 2006 when the previous Chairman became ill until April 2007 when a new permanent Chairman was appointed by the Board. Mr. Halpern was a manager of Origen Financial L.L.C. (Origen�s primary operating subsidiary) from January 2002 until December 2003. Mr. Halpern is currently the manager of Woodward Holding LLC a stockholder of Origen. Since April 2007 Mr. Halpern has served as President of Guardian Energy Management Corp. an oil and gas exploration and production company which is a subsidiary of Guardian Industries Corp. a glass manufacturing corporation. He served as Vice President of Operations of Guardian Energy Management Corp. from 1990 to April 2007. In addition Mr. Halpern has served as Associate Tax Counsel of Guardian Industries Corp. since 1988. From 1979 through 1988 Mr. Halpern was employed in various capacities by both McDermott Incorporated and McDermott International Inc. with his last position as Tax Director for McDermott Incorporated. Before joining McDermott Mr. Halpern worked in the tax department of the public accounting firm of Alexander Grant & Company. | 