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Mr. Thompson joined our Board of Directors in August 2007. He has had a distinguished career in public company finance and accounting positions since 1981. From May 2005 to March 2007 he served as Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer of American Power Conversion Corporation a $2 billion dollar provider of real-time computing and data center infrastructure products and services (acquired by Schneider Electric in February 2007). From 1990 to 2005 Mr. Thompson served as Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Artesyn Technologies a public company involved in the design manufacture and sale of power conversion and embedded board solutions for infrastructure applications in server and storage networking wireless and telecommunications systems. Prior to joining Artesyn in 1990 Mr. Thompson held multiple finance and accounting positions at high-technology firms including Control Data Corporation from 1986 to 1990 Fairchild Semiconductor from 1983 to 1986 and Schlumberger Limited from 1974 to 1983. Thompson earned his BBA (Accounting) in 1971 from Lamar University in Beaumont Texas. He is an active Certified Public Accountant. | 