Thomas R Hudson Jr

Mr. Hudson is and has been since May 2002 the Manager of Pirate Capital LLC, an investment manager, which he founded. From February 2001 through May 2002, Mr. Hudson was a private investor. From 1999 to February 2001, Mr. Hudson served as a Managing Director at Amroc Investments, LLC, an investment management firm, where he directed all distressed research and managed the bank loan trading desk. Prior to that, from 1997 to 1999, Mr. Hudson served as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Goldman, Sachs & Co., an investment bank, where he was responsible for investing and trading a $500 million portfolio of distressed domestic and international private assets. No such companies employing Mr. Hudson were a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of the Company. Mr. Hudson currently serves as a director of The Allied Defense Group, Inc., The Brink's Company and PW Eagle, Inc. Mr. Hudson was originally appointed to the Board in exchange for Pirate Capital LLC's withdrawal of its Notice of Intent to Nominate One Person for Election as a Director and to Move a Business Proposal at the 2006 Annual Meeting.