Richard P. Kiphart

Head of Corporate Finance and principal of William Blair

Richard P. Kiphart is Lead Director and has been one of our directors since January 2006. He served as chairman of our board of directors from 2006 to 2011. Mr Kiphart is the head of the Corporate Finance Department and a Principal of William Blair & Company, an investment firm. In addition, Mr. Kiphart currently serves as a member of the board of directors of First Data Corp., and previously served on the Concord EFS board of directors from 1997 until 2004 and was chairman of the Concord board of directors from February 2003 until March 2004. Mr. Kiphart is also currently a director of SAFLINK Corporation, Advanced Biotherapy, Inc. and Nature Vision, Inc. In addition he is the former chairman of the Merit Music School, is the president and chief executive officer of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the vice chairman of the Erikson Institute. He also serves on the Policy Advisory Board of DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa).