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Peter Nauert serves as a member of the Company�s Board of Directors since February 9th. Mr. Nauert has over thirty years experience as a founder, creator and leader in the insurance industry with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, as well as funding. He was the inventor of the industry�s first web-based agent sales system. Mr. Nauert is nationally recognized as an entrepreneur and has an extensive success record in implementing public and private campaign funding vehicles. Mr. Nauert is the Founder and Chairman of Insurance Capital Management (ICM), a national Company which provides marketing, web-based technology and specialty products for insurance and financial services. ICM�s distribution subsidiaries comprise nearly 10,000 sales agents nationwide. Prior to founding ICM, Mr. Nauert was Chairman and CEO of Ceres Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CERG) from July 1998 to June 2002. In 1998, Mr. Nauert led an investor group that purchased Central Reserve Life Insurance Company (CRLC), a financially troubled health insurance company. He founded Ceres Group, Inc., as the new holding company of CRLC. Through management changes and a series of acquisitions, Mr. Nauert achieved first-year profit turnaround and continuing yearly profits. As Chairman, Mr. Nauert increased Ceres� gross revenue to $907 million. Prior to Ceres, Mr. Nauert founded Pioneer Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: PFS), arranged its IPO in 1986 and established numerous national subsidiaries in healthcare, managed care, health and life insurance and marketing. As Chairman and CEO, Mr. Nauert grew PFS during its 10 years as a public company to gross revenues of $1 billion and assets of nearly $2 billion. In 1997, Mr. Nauert negotiated the sale of PFS to Conseco, Inc. for $480 million. | 