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KURT E. YEAGER was elected as a director on May 10, 2007. Mr.Yeager, with more than 30 years of experience in the energy industry and energy research, was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the national collaborative research and development organization for electric power. Under Mr.Yeager�s leadership, EPRI evolved from a non-profit electric power research institute into a family of companies encompassing collaborative and proprietary R&D as well as technical solution applications for the electricity enterprise in the U.S. and over 40 other countries. As CEO, Mr. Yeager also led the electricity enterprise-wide collaborative development of the landmark Electricity Technology Roadmap, and the Electricity Sector Framework for the Future. Previously, Mr. Yeager was the director of Energy R&D Planning for the EPA Office of Research. Prior to that he was with the MITRE Corporation as associate head of the Environmental Systems Department. | 