Robert L. Pevenstein (60) has been a Director since September 2003 and our Chairman of the Board since January 2006. Mr. Pevenstein has served on the Board of Directors of Ascendant Copper Corporation since December 2004 and has served as President of Phoenix Yacht Management since January 2006. In 2003 Mr. Pevenstein was appointed to a five year term on the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland which includes thirteen higher education institutions and where he currently serves as Vice Chairman and to the Board of Directors of the University of Maryland Medical System which includes six community hospitals. He founded Princeville Partners LLC a mergers and acquisitions and business consulting group in 1997 and has served as its President since its inception. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of UNC Incorporated an aviation services and manufacturing company from 1987 to 1997. Mr. Pevenstein has more than twenty years of experience serving as a senior corporate financial executive and is a Certified Public Accountant with a Masters of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University and Bachelor of Science degrees in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Maryland. |