Mr. Mensah has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of 'XPORTS, Inc., a privately held company that exports food packaging and food processing equipment and pharmaceuticals to foreign markets, since January 2005, and previously served in those same positions from April 2003 until July 2003 and from October 2000 until December 2002. He had served as the Chief Operating Officer -- Domestic of Church's Chicken, a division of AFC Enterprises, Inc. and one of the world's largest quick-service restaurant chains, from August 2003 to December 2004, when it was sold to a private equity firm. Mr. Mensah was President, U.S. Tax Services of H&R Block Inc., a tax, mortgage and financial services company, from January 2003 until March 2003. He also was a management consultant from October 1999 to September 2000. Previously, Mr. Mensah served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Long John Silver's Restaurants, Inc., the world's largest chain of seafood quick-service restaurants, from 1997 until it was sold under his auspices in October 1999. Mr. Mensah worked for PepsiCo from 1990 to 1994 and for PepsiCo Restaurants International from 1994 to 1997, in a variety of senior executive positions. Mr. Mensah commenced serving on the Board of RAI as of July 30, 2004, and served on the board of directors of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of RAI and formerly a publicly traded company, referred to as RJR, from June 1999 to July 2004. Mr. Mensah is a Distinguished Fellow at Georgetown College in Kentucky. He also is a member of the boards of trustees of the Lexington Philharmonic Society, the Children's Miracle Network and the Kentucky Children's Hospital.