Mr. Lawrence R. Buchalter is the Managing Partner at Chatham Asset Management. He has been a Director of Golden State Vintners Inc. since February 2001 and is a Member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Buchalter recently retired as a partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, where his most recent roles included managing the firms high-yield debt new issue business, managing all e-Commerce initiatives for the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division, and starting and serving as Chief Executive Officer for BondBook, LLC, an industry initiative to create an anonymous exchange for the bond market. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Buchalter served in various engineering roles at DuPont and ITT Corporation.