Encore Wire Corp.

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Thomas L. Cunningham has served as a Director of the company since 2003, and is designated by the board as the "financial expert" under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Cunningham served over 28 years at Ernst & Young LLP (and predecessor "Ernst" firms), withdrawing as an audit partner in September 1991. He worked as an Equity Research Analyst specializing in special situations and health care stocks with William K. Woodruff Incorporated and Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, Inc. from 1993 through 1996. Since January 1997 and for earlier interim periods, he has been self-employed as a Certified Public Accountant and a Business Consultant. As part of his CPA practice, he is currently licensed as a financial advisor under NASD Series 24 and 7 by H. D.Vest Financial Services. From December 1991 through October 2003, he served on the Board of Directors of Bluebonnet Savings Bank FSB. Bluebonnet was voluntarily liquidated as a profitable savings bank in October 2003. Since May 2003, Cunningham has served as a Director and, since January 2004, as an Audit Committee Member and Financial Expert, of Encore Wire Corporation (Nasdaq: WIRE).

Mr. Weaver has been the Chief Administrative Officer of Western Refining, Inc., a public refining and marketing company located in El Paso, Texas since August 2005 and a Director of Western, Inc. since 2005. From June 2000 to August 2005, Mr. Weaver served as Chief Financial Officer of Western Refining. From 1993 until June 2000, Mr. Weaver was the Vice President-Finance, Treasurer and Secretary of the Company.

Will joined Capital Southwest in 2006. Previously, Will served as a U.S. Air Force officer for eleven years in varied positions including chief pilot of an airlift group, director of worldwide logistics operations and chief of aircraft development contracts. He has also served as a consultant for Investor Group Services, where he analyzed potential investments in mid market companies by assessing technology, market position and performance for private equity firms. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in engineering sciences from the U.S. Air Force Academy.