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Walter H. Barandiaran has been a Director since June 2001. He is a founder and a managing partner of The Argentum Group, a New York-based private equity firm founded in 1987 that serves as a general partner of several investment funds focusing in the healthcare services, information technology, industrial sector, and outsource businesses. Mr. Barandiaran also serves as the Chairman of HorizonWimba, Inc., a software platform for virtual classrooms and collaboration tools, since 2002; and as the Chairman of AFS Technologies, Inc., a provider of ERP software to the food industry, since 2003. Mr. Barandiaran has also been the CEO of HorizonWimba, Inc. from 2002 until 2004. He additionally serves on the boards of directors of several privately held corporations in which The Argentum Group or its affiliates have invested. Mr. Barandiaran has been designated as a Director by, collectively, two investment funds (Argentum Capital Partners, L.P., and Argentum Capital Partners II, L.P.) that hold a portion of the Company�s preferred stock, pursuant to our Certificate of Incorporation and to the Stockholders� Agreement described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2004, which accompanies this Proxy Statement. | 