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Robert P. Bowen currently serves as a director and chairs the audit committee of the board of directors of Gaylord Entertainment Company, a publicly traded hospitality company. Mr. Bowen has also been nominated as a director of Equity Inns, Inc., a publicly traded hotel REIT. Mr. Bowen retired as a partner of Arthur Andersen LLP in 1999. From 1980 to 1998, he was partner-in-charge of the audit practice of Arthur Andersen's Memphis and Little Rock offices. For more than 25 years, he specialized in the hospitality and entertainment industry and was a member of Arthur Andersen's worldwide hospitality industry team. Mr. Bowen joined Arthur Andersen in 1968, after receiving his Master of Business Administration from Emory University | 