Carin Marcy Barth

Carin M. Barth has served as one of our directors since March 2006. Ms. Barth is President of LB Capital, Inc., a private equity investment firm she co-founded in 1988. Currently, Ms. Barth serves on the advisory board of Amegy Bancorporation, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zions Bancorporation; the board of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute; and the board of Ronald McDonald House of Houston. In February 2008, she was appointed a Commissioner to the Department of Public Safety for the state of Texas. She has served as Chairman of the Endowment at Texas Tech University since early 2006. During 2004-2005, Ms. Barth took a leave of absence from LB Capital, Inc., to serve as Chief Financial Officer of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC. From September 2006 to July 2007, she also served as Interim Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration (CFO) at Texas Southern University.