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Rajiv Gupta founded Securent, Inc., and leads the company as CEO, directing Securent's overall strategy and direction in the application entitlement management market. He has more than 17 years of successful enterprise software and security experience, and is widely recognized as a pioneer of Web Services. Prior to Securent, he was the Founder and CEO of Confluent Software, where he led efforts for the successful development and growth of its policy-based web-services management product, before Confluent was acquired by Oblix in 2004. Before founding Confluent, Gupta spent 11 years at Hewlett-Packard, most recently as the General Manager of the E-speak Division, a division he started in 1998 to bring to market the E-speak technology that he and his team developed at HP Labs. E-speak is the precursor to the Web Service offerings from many major IT companies, and has been inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum. Gupta is the inventor or co-inventor of some of the seminal concepts that underpin Web Services, and has more than 45 patents to his name. He earned his Master's degree and PhD in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology, and his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Pierre R. Brondeau President, Chief Executive Officer Dow Advanced Materials Pierre R. Brondeau was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Dow Advanced Materials, effective April 1, 2009 upon the acquisition of Rohm and Haas Company by The Dow Chemical Company. Dr. Brondeau joined Rohm and Haas Company in May 1989 as European marketing manager for the Plastics Additives business unit located in Paris. In 1991, he transferred to Valbonne, France to head the Technical Service and Development Laboratories. Dr. Brondeau was promoted to director of Plastics Additives Research in 1993, and moved to Shipley Company as director, Research, Sales and Marketing in 1995. He held top leadership positions at Shipley Company, including vice president, Operations and Technology (1997), and president and chief operating officer (1999). In April 1999, Dr. Brondeau was named vice president and business group director of the Electronic Materials Division, and president and CEO of Shipley Company. This group was later renamed Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials. He added responsibilities as the European Regional director in 2003. In October 2006, Dr. Brondeau was named executive vice president and business group executive for the newly created Specialty Materials business. In May 2008, Dr. Brondeau was elected president and chief operating officer of Rohm and Haas Company and a member of the Chairman's Committee. Earlier in his career, Dr. Brondeau worked at Air Liquide in France. He earned a B.S. degree in Biochemical Engineering at INSA France (1980), a M.S. degree in Biochemical Engineering at the University of Montpellier, France (1981), and a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering at INSA France (1983). Dr. Brondeau serves as a member of the board of directors of Tyco Electronics. Rev. 04/14/2009

Robert Lonergan has been Chief Legal Officer of Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1999. As such he supervises the efforts of 45 in-house attorneys and scores of outside firms that handle the various legal affairs of this $6 billion, publicly-traded, specialty chemicals and electronic materials company. Mr. Lonergan is a trustee of the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and of the Walnut Street Theatre, serves as a member of the Corporate Executive Board of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Science, Technology and Law Panel of the National Academies. Prior to joining Rohm and Haas, Mr. Lonergan served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pegasus Gold Inc. and before that Vice President, General Counsel and member of the Board of Directors of Kennecott Corp. Mr. Lonergan began his practice with the anti-trust group at Cadwalader, Wickersham, & Taft in New York. Mr. Lonergan earned his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Fordham University and served as an intelligence officer in Vietnam.

Alan E. Barton , 52, has been a director since September 2008. Prior to his retirement from Rohm and Haas Company in October 2008, he was an Executive Vice President of Rohm and Haas. During his 24-year career at Rohm and Haas, Dr. Barton has held many positions, including Vice President and Business Group Executive, Coatings (2002-2006) with oversight for operations, engineering and Latin America; Regional Director, Asia-Pacific Region (2004-2005). Dr. Barton was named to Rohm and Haas' Executive Council in 2001. His experience at Rohm and Haas includes product development, business development and scientific research. Dr. Barton is a member of the Board of Directors of Technitrol, Inc. He is Chairman of Technitrol's Governance Committee and serves on its Compensation Committee.

Mr. Macphee joined the Corporate Development and Strategy group in 1995, where he has led numerous acquisitions and venturing efforts. Mr. Macphee currently has responsibility for strategic planning, acquisitions and divestitures, and new business development. Mr. Macphee joined Rohm and Haas Company in 1978 as a process chemist and has worked in numerous areas including Polymer Operations and New Ventures. In 1992, he was named vice president of Marketing and Finance for Plaskon, a former electronic materials subsidiary of Rohm and Haas. Rohm and Haas is a $6.4 billion worldwide producer of specialty materials with more than 100 plants and research facilities in 27 countries. Rohm and Haas technology is found in paint and coatings, adhesives and sealants, construction materials, personal computers and electronic components, household cleaning products, and thousands of everyday products.

Casey McGeever was previously Senior Vice President of Operations for ICF Kaiser Engineers in Pittsburgh , and President/Chairman of the Board of two ICF Kaiser subsidiary companies. As such, he exercised P & L for over 800 employees on three continents, performing more than $250 million in work each year and with a backlog of approximately $600 million. He started and ran ICF Kaiser subsidiaries in Eastern Europe , Canada , and Southeast Asia . As Vice President of Business Development, Casey McGeever created a vast expansion in Kaiser's industrial and commercial business, expanding market share and profitability simultaneously throughout his tenure. Prior to this, Casey McGeever was a founding executive at Molten Metal Technology (MMT), a Boston high-tech environmental start-up. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing MMT, he established and implemented the commercial strategy which brought MMT to a valuation of over $200 million in just two years. He negotiated and handled key strategic corporate partnerships for MMT, bringing in millions of dollars in financial support to build the sales and marketing department, and to fund technical development for MMT. MMT went public in 1993, garnering one of the highest market capitalizations (at that time) for a venture-backed start-up company. Casey McGeever received his second patent while at MMT, on reprocessing wastes into industrial feed stocks. As Director of Innovation for the American division of L'Air Liquide, Casey McGeever selected technologies for commercialization and developed the commercial agreements toward this end (licenses, corporate partnerships, acquisitions ). He previously held various positions with this organization, where he was personally involved in selling, designing and implementing technological improvements and production increases at hundreds of manufacturing facilities. The markets involved were incredibly diverse, from semiconductor manufacturing, to jet fighter production to food processing. He received his first patent at L'Air Liquide. Casey McGeever also worked at Stauffer Chemicals in Research. He holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Southern California and the University of California, respectively, and a Master's degree in Management (MBA) from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. Prior to starting Technology Assessment International, Jocelyne McGeever was a founder of UltraClad Corporation, a Boston area advanced materials business formed to exploit a set of patents and proprietary expertise for the production of equipment experiencing extreme service. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Jocelyne McGeever established and implemented the sales and marketing plan for UltraClad. This included identifying the best market opportunity in a multi-billion dollar market, and selling the first Beta-test applications of the technology. She was able to use the technology to sell at 10 times competitor's prices, leading to 50% profit margins. UltraClad remains privately owned today, and is profitably exploiting its market niche. As Global Marketing Director for Plastics Additives with Rohm and Haas, a specialty chemicals company, Jocelyne McGeever lead a switch to sustainable profitable growth by identifying several hundred million dollars worth of high margin opportunities using the company core technology outside its core markets in building materials. She accelerated the return on R&D investment by fostering the concurrent development of region specific product variations to meet global market needs. As a Manager of the Metals Group for Liquid Air Corporation, an industrial gas company, Jocelyne McGeever selected technologies both inside and outside the company, for commercialization. She grew new business contracts 10 fold in 8 years through the commercialization of 10 patented evolutionary technologies she selected. This was achieved while increasing profitability and market...

Chester Pogonowski has been a member of the Lingohocken Fire Company since 1985. He has previously served as Lieutenant, Captain, Assistant Chief, and Chief, as well as serving as Captain and Battalion Chief of the Bucks County Hazardous Materials Incident Response Team. Chet currently serves as President, and Safety Officer for the Company and is a PA state certified Medical First Responder and Vehicle Rescue Technician. Chet holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. from the State University College at Buffalo. Chet is a QA manager for Rohm and Haas in Bristol, and lives in Wycombe.

Hank Stoebenau is Consultant to the AAEI Chemicals and Bulk Commodities Committee. He represents AAEI to the U.S.T.R Department of Commerce's Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Chemicals. Prior to being a consultant, he worked for over thirty years with the Rohm and Haas Company. He served various positions including working as a Developmental Chemist and Sales Manager in the Marketing Management division. Hank left his position as International Trade Affairs Manager for the Rohm and Haas Company in 2001 to become the owner and President of Efficient Global Trade, Inc., which provides consulting services in chemical duty management. Hank is a resident of Spring House, Pennsylvania and is married with two children. He also serves on his township's Municipal Authority Board.

Dr. Michael A. Jayjock is a senior member of LifeLine Group's management team. Prior to joining LLG, he was the Senior Research and EHS Fellow and Manager, Risk Assessment, in the Toxicology Department of Rohm and Haas Company, where he has served in various technical positions since 1969. He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also received his Master of Science degree in Environmental Science and Occupational Health. Dr. Jayjock is a Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association and Diplomat of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (CIH). He has served on various committees of the American Industrial Hygiene Association: Committee on Exposure Assessment Strategies, Exposure Strategies Modeling Subcommittee, Exposure Strategies Expert System Subcommittee, Committee on Risk Assessment, and Low-Dose Estimation Task Group. Dr. Jayjock's principal research interest includes the development of better-estimating and more cost-efficient exposure models. He has expertise in such areas as exposure modeling and human exposure to environmental pollutants, human health risk assessment, and uncertainty analysis. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed publications and served from 1998-2003 as an Editorial Board Member for the American Industrial Hygiene Journal. He has made numerous technical presentations, including at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference, International Society of Exposure Assessment Conference, and the Air Toxics Monitoring Workshop to Support EPA's Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy. His wide service on advisory committees includes: U.S. EPA - Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics - Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP); Peer Consultation Panel on Flame Retardants, 2003; U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, Executive Committee, Human Health Research Strategy Panel, November 2002; U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board Consultant 2001-2003 - Integrated Human Exposure Committee; U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board Member 1998-2001 - Integrated Human Exposure Committee (IHEC); and National Research Council - National Academy of Sciences, as a Member of the Committee to Review Risk Management in the DOE's Environmental Remediation Program, the Committee on Advances in Assessing Human Exposure to Airborne Pollutants, and the Committee on Toxicology - Subcommittee on Risk Assessment of Flame-Retardant Chemicals.

Bob joined McHugh Associates in August 2005 as Portfolio Manager and Equity Analyst and has 12 years investment experience. Prior to joining McHugh, Bob was a Principal and Portfolio Manager at Fox Asset Management LLC. Prior to Fox Asset Management, Bob was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Cutler and Company and also a Senior Equity Analyst at Valuation Research Corporation. Earlier, he was a Senior Financial Analyst at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. He has also held the positions of Economic Analyst, Treasury Analyst, and Process Engineer for the Rohm and Haas Company. Bob has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Temple University. Bob holds the CFA designation and is a member of The Financial Analysts of Philadelphia, Inc.

Gary L. Rogers retired as Vice Chairman of General Electric Company in 2003 having served in that capacity since 2001. Prior to that time he had been a Senior Vice President of GE, having been elected to that position in 1986. Mr. Rogers was the President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Plastics from 1992 to 2001. For the preceding two years he had been the President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Appliances. He had begun his career with GE in 1966 as a member of the Financial Management Program and had advanced to Manager of Program and Staff Administration by 1976. Thereafter he had held positions of increasing responsibility in the financial and operational management of various divisions and subsidiaries of GE, including GE Lighting. In addition to his membership on the Board of Wyeth, Mr. Rogers is a Director of Rohm & Haas Company and W.W. Grainger Inc. He is also a Trustee of Florida State University Foundation. Mr. Rogers holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Florida State University.

Richard L. Keyser has been a Director of the Company and Principal Life since 2002. Mr. Keyser has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of W.W. Grainger, Inc., an industrial distributor of products used by businesses to maintain, repair and operate their facilities, since 1997. Mr. Keyser is a director of two other public companies: W. W. Grainger, Inc. and Rohm and Haas Company, a global specialty materials company. He is a director of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and the National Merit Scholarship Foundation. He is a trustee for the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum of Natural History. He is an Advisor for the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and the Division of the Physical Sciences, University of Chicago.

Rick J. Mills has been a director of the Company since 2008. Mr. Mills joined Cummins, Inc., the world’s leader in the manufacture of large diesel engines, in 1970 and served in various senior executive positions, most recently as a Corporate Vice President from 1996 until his retirement in May of 2008. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of Rohm and Haas Company and Flowserve, Inc.

Sandra O. Moose has been a Director of AES since April 2004. Dr. Moose is President of Strategic Advisory Services and previously was a Senior Vice President of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She joined BCG in 1968, was a Director since 1975, and a Senior Vice President through 2003. She managed BCG's New York Office from 1988 1998 and was appointed Chair of the East Coast. Dr. Moose received her PhD and MA in economics from Harvard University and BA summa cum laude in economics from Wheaton College. Dr. Moose serves on the Boards of Directors of Verizon Communications, Rohm and Haas Company, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and IXIS Advisor Funds and Loomis Sayles Funds where she is Chairperson of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Moose serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Special Committee of the Board (and will serve on the newly formed Finance and Investment Committee). The Board has determined that Dr. Moose meets the standards of independence established by the NYSE and the Sarbanes Oxley Act.