Elizebeth E Tallett

Elizabeth E. Tallett has been a Director of the Company since 2001 and of Principal Life since 1992. Ms. Tallett has been a Principal of Hunter Partners, LLC, which provides management services to developing life sciences companies, since July 2002. She was Chief Executive Officer of Dioscor Inc., a biopharmaceutical firm, from 1996 until July 2003. She is a director of four other public companies: Coventry Health Care, Inc., a managed health care company; Immunicon, Inc., a specialty diagnostics company; IntegraMed America, Inc., a health services management company, and Varian, Inc., a supplier of scientific instruments. She is also a director of the Biotechnology Council of New Jersey.