Paul F. Hardiman has served as a director of the Company since 2002. Mr. Hardiman retired in 2002 as a Managing Director at FleetBoston Corp. During his 36-year career with FleetBoston and its predecessor company, Bank of Boston, Mr. Hardiman held a variety of management positions in the Bank's Commercial Banking and Specialized Financing activities. He also served as Chairman of Bank of Boston Canada, a banking and factoring company located in Toronto and Montreal. In 1989 he established the Bank's Environmental Financing Group, the first of it's kind in the country, to provide capital and banking support to the Solid Waste Industry. Mr. Hardiman holds a BA in Economics from Boston College and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College. Mr. Hardiman serves on our Auditing Committee. |