Christopher Wright has been a director since December 1991. Mr. Wright is a director of Merifin Capital Group, NV, an affiliate of a private European investment company, chairman of EMAlternatives LLC, a Washington DC based investment advisory firm, Noble Venture Finance LLP and of Aletheia Capital LLC, an LBO investment partnership. From May 2000 through June 2003, Mr. Wright was chief executive officer of Dresdner Kleinwort Capital, the private equity arm of Dresdner Bank Group AG, Frankfurt, and from July 1998 through June 2003, he was Group Board Member of its affiliate, Dresdner Kleinwort. Since 1986, he has served on the boards of several privately owned companies and venture capital funds and is a director of Lombard Risk Management PLC, IDOX PLC, Q-VCT PLC and Mrs. Fields Holdings and an advisory director of Campbell Lutyens & Co. Ltd., a private U.K. investment bank.