(James D. Ireland III is donting one hour of his time to the winning bidder.)

Business Activities - Mr. Ireland is Managing Director and Chairman of Capital One Partners, a Cleveland-based private equity investment firm that he co-founded in 1993, which has direct investments in early stage and middle market companies in various information technology, life sciences, consumer and service businesses. In 2002, Capital One organized a new private equity investment fund, known as Early Stage Partners L.P., which expands the scope of the Firm's early stage investment activities. The Fund's industry emphasis includes life sciences, technology and polymer/materials. Mr. Ireland is a Managing Director of the Fund. Capital One and Early Stage Partners currently have investments in over 25 companies. Until March 1998 when the Company was sold in a tender offer, he also served as Chairman of the Board of SunCoast Industries, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange listed producer of plastics products.

Mr. Ireland is a Director of Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, and the leading North American producer of iron ore, and is Chair of its Strategic Advisory Committee. He is also a director and officer of numerous privately-held companies funded by Capital One and Early Stage Partners.


Prior to forming Capital One, Mr. Ireland was a Partner or Managing Director of several investment and merchant banking firms involved in private equity investments and acquisition transactions. Prior to 1983, he served in the Corporate Finance Department of Salomon Brothers Inc., where he ran a Communications Industry Group with responsibility for numerous major corporations, including AT&T and the Bell System Companies and Time, Inc. During his time there, he participated in the completion of over 75 transactions totaling in excess of $10 billion.

Civic Activities - Mr. Ireland is President and Trustee of The Musical Arts Association (The Cleveland Orchestra) where he also served as Vice-Chair of the $116 million Campaign for the Twenty-First Century and Chair of the Artistic Direction Committee that selected Franz Welser-Most as the Orchestra's next Music Director. Mr. Ireland is also past Chairman and Trustee of the Great Lakes Museum of Science, Environment and Technology (Science Center) and Deputy Chairman of University Circle Incorporated. He also is President of the Harbor Heritage Society, President of The Mather Fund, Co-Chair of ODOT's Opportunity Corridor Sub-Committee and a founding Trustee and Treasurer of the Generation Foundation. He also serves as a board member of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, a member of the Executive Committee of NorTech (the Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition) and Chair of its Task Force on Early Stage Capital, and a board member of Team NEO, Ideastream (WVIZ-WCPN), Leadership Cleveland and a member of the Investment and Growth Task Force of the Commission on Economic Partnerships and Inclusion.


Educational and Personal Activities - Mr. Ireland graduated from Columbia College in 1972 with a degree in Economics, specializing also in Anthropology and East and Southeast Asian studies. He did graduate work in Economics and Anthropology, taught at the graduate level at a rural university in Indonesia, and thereafter attended Columbia Business School prior to joining Salomon Brothers Inc., in New York. He is currently 56 years old.