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Joel T. Citron has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2000. Mr. Citron has served as chairman of our board of directors since October 2001. Since October 2002, Mr. Citron has served as president and chief executive officer of Jovian Holdings, Inc. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Citron was director, vice chairman, president and chief executive officer of Mastec Inc., a publicly traded end-to-end communications and energy infrastructure service provider. From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Citron was chairman and chief executive officer of Proventus Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Proventus AB, a large investment holding company. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Citron was chairman of American Information Systems, Inc., a network implementation and Internet software development company co-founded by Mr. Jared Schutz Polis, our founder. Mr. Citron currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of OXiGENE, Inc., a publicly traded bio-tech company. Mr. Citron holds an M.A. in Economics and a B.S. in business administration from the University of Southern California. David E. R. Dangoor joined our board of directors in September 2003 and currently serves as the chairman of our compensation committee. Prior to his retirement in August 2002, Mr. Dangoor served as executive vice president for Philip Morris International Inc., a position he held from 1992. He also served in a variety of senior management roles with Philip Morris U.S.A. and Philip Morris International Inc. from 1976 through 1992. He is currently a principal of an international marketing consulting company. Mr. Dangoor is a member of the board of directors of the New York City Ballet, Inc., a non-profit organization. He is also a director of the board of the International Sephardic Education Foundation, a non-profit organization, and is the president of the American Sephardi Federation, a non-profit organization. Mr. Dangoor currently serves on the board of directors of BioGaia AB, a Swedish public biotechnology company. Mr. Dangoor holds the equivalent of an M.B.A. from Stockholm School of Economics. Joseph P. Kennedy has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2000 and currently serves as the chairman of our nominating committee. Mr. Kennedy is a former U.S. congressman and House Banking Committee member and Subcommittee chairman. Since January 1998, Mr. Kennedy has served as the chairman and president of Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit company supporting a wide array of social and charitable programs in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Kennedy holds a B.A. in public service from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since December 1998. Dr. Laffer has been chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and financial consulting firm, since 1979; chief executive officer of Laffer Advisors Inc., a broker-dealer, since 1981; and chief executive officer of Laffer Investments, an investment management firm, since 1999. Dr. Laffer is a director of Jovian Holdings, Inc. and presently serves on the boards of directors of the following publicly traded companies: PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc., Nicholas Applegate Growth Equity Fund, OXiGENE, Inc., MPS Group, Inc. and Veolia Environnement. Dr. Laffer is a 1963 graduate of Yale University. Dr. Laffer received his M.B.A. in 1965 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972, each from Stanford University. Peter J. McLaughlin joined our board of directors in September 2003. Mr. McLaughlin is currently the associate director of principal gifts for Boston College, a position he has held since September 2002. From September 1999 through August 2002, he was the managing director of Bernheimer Associates, a merger and acquisition firm concentrating on representing companies for sale in the direct marketing and direct mail businesses. From March 1996 through August 1999, he served as the executive vice president of corporate development for Vestcom International, a document management business. Mr. McLaughlin has served in a number of other senior management positions with various companies, including senior vice president of First Image Management Company, chief executive officer of Micrographics Systems, and president and chief executive officer of Alves Photo. Mr. McLaughlin received an M.B.A. from Northeastern University and an A.B. in economics from Boston College. James M. Myers joined our board of directors in November 2003 and currently services as the chairman of our audit and corporate governance committee. Mr. Myers is currently the chief executive officer of PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc., a publicly traded company which he joined in May 1990. Mr. Myers became chief executive officer of PETCO in March 2004. From 1998 to 2004, Mr. Myers served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of PETCO. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Myers served as senior vice president, finance and before that as vice president, finance and as vice president and controller of PETCO. From 1980 to 1990, Mr. Myers held various positions at the accounting firm of KPMG LLP, including senior audit manager. Mr. Myers also presently serves on the board of directors of PETCO. Mr. Myers earned a CPA and received an accounting degree from John Carroll University. Jordanna Schutz joined our board of directors in September 2003. From May 1999 through December 1999, Ms. Schutz served as director of development of Bluemountain.com, an Internet electronic greeting card website. Bluemountain.com was sold to Excite@Home in December 1999. Ms. Schutz was a full-time student at Harvard University from September 1998 until June 2003, other than the time she spent at Bluemountain.com. While a student at Harvard, she pursued nanotechnology research, and she has since pursued economics research in affiliation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Schutz serves on the board of directors of Jovian Holdings, Inc. She received a B.A. in physics and math from Harvard in 2003. Marilyn R. Seymann, Ph.D. joined our board of directors in October 2004. Dr. Seymann is currently associate dean of the College of Law at Arizona State University. Prior to July 2005, she was president and chief executive officer of M One, Inc., a management and governance consulting firm. Dr. Seymann had been with M One since 1991. She is a director of EOS International, a direct selling company, and presently serves on the boards of directors of the following publicly traded companies: Maximus, Inc., a government services company; and Beverly Enterprises, Inc., a health care company. Dr. Seymann holds a Ph.D. from California Western University, an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Brandeis University. William Strauss joined us in April 1998 as president and chief operating officer. Mr. Strauss was promoted to chief executive officer in November 1999 and was elected a member of our board of directors in December 1998. From October 2001 to November 2004, Mr. Strauss was also our assistant secretary. Prior to joining us, Mr. Strauss was part of the senior management team at ChipSoft, Inc., the makers of TurboTax, which was acquired by Intuit, Inc. in 1993. In the early 1990s, Mr. Strauss was vice president of operations for Hanover Direct, a large catalog company. Mr. Strauss holds a B.A. in accounting from Syracuse University.