Vector Group Ltd.

Bryant Kirkland has been a Vice President of Vector Group since January 2001 and became our Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer on April 1, 2006. Mr. Kirkland served as New Valley Corporation’s Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer from January 1998 until its merger with Vector in December 2005. He has served since November 1994 in various financial capacities with Vector Group and New Valley. Mr. Kirkland has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CDSI Holdings Inc. since January 1998 and as a director of CDSI Holdings Inc. since November 1998. From June 2001 until October 2002, Mr. Kirkland served as Chief Financial Officer of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services. Mr. Kirkland received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 1987 and an MBA from Barry University in December 2006. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Kirkland served on the Board of Visitors at North Carolina State University, where his grandfather was Dean of the College of Education from 1948 to 1969. Mr. Kirkland is an avid runner who has completed the Boston, New York, Miami, San Diego, Chicago and Arizona Marathons.

Bryant Kirkland has been a Vice President of Vector Group since January 2001 and became our Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer on April 1, 2006. Mr. Kirkland served as New Valley Corporation’s Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer from January 1998 until its merger with Vector in December 2005. He has served since November 1994 in various financial capacities with Vector Group and New Valley. Mr. Kirkland has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CDSI Holdings Inc. since January 1998 and as a director of CDSI Holdings Inc. since November 1998. From June 2001 until October 2002, Mr. Kirkland served as Chief Financial Officer of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services. Mr. Kirkland received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 1987 and an MBA from Barry University in December 2006. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Kirkland served on the Board of Visitors at North Carolina State University, where his grandfather was Dean of the College of Education from 1948 to 1969. Mr. Kirkland is an avid runner who has completed the Boston, New York, Miami, San Diego, Chicago and Arizona Marathons.

Richard J. Lampen is Executive Vice President of Vector Group. Mr. Lampen also served as Executive Vice President of New Valley from October 1995 until its merger with Vector Group in December 2005. Since November 1998, he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of CDSI Holdings Inc., an affiliate of New Valley seeking acquisition or investment opportunities. Since September 2006, he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services. Mr. Lampen has served as interim President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Castle Brands Inc. (AMEX:ROX), a publicly traded developer and importer of premium brand spirits in which Vector holds an 11% equity interest as of November 9, 2008. Prior to joining the Company in 1995, Mr. Lampen was a partner at Steel Hector & Davis, a law firm located in Miami, Florida. Previously, Mr. Lampen was a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers Inc. Mr. Lampen is a director of New Valley, CDSI Holdings Inc. and Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services. Mr. Lampen has also served as a director of a number of other companies, including U.S. Can Corporation, The International Bank of Miami, N.A. and Spec's Music Inc., as well as a court-appointed independent director of Trump Plaza Funding, Inc. Mr. Lampen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctorate degree from Columbia Law School.

Bennett S. LeBow is the Chairman of the Board of Vector Group. Mr. LeBow has been affiliated with the Company since 1986. Mr. LeBow also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vector Tobacco Inc., and as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of New Valley Corporation. Mr. LeBow has a long history in the tobacco industry. In March 1996, under his leadership, Liggett Group broke ranks with the rest of the US tobacco industry and became the first tobacco company to settle smoking-related litigation. The Company made the landmark announcement that smoking is addictive and causes cancer and other health ailments, turned over long-secret tobacco industry documents, disclosed its ingredients, and testified against the industry. Mr. LeBow has also been a strong proponent of the national fight against underage smoking and has been influential in the movement to obtain full disclosure from the tobacco industry. Before devoting himself completely to private business in 1968, Mr. LeBow served in the Pentagon, initially as a First Lieutenant and subsequently as a civilian, serving as assistant to the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Mr. LeBow, is a 1960 graduate of Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he obtained a degree in electrical engineering. In 1998, he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Drexel, and Drexel's College of Business and Administration has been named in his honor. He has endowed the Bennett S. LeBow Engineering Center, a state-of-the-art facility that houses Drexel's College of Engineering. In addition, prior to entering the Army, Mr. LeBow, in the 1960's, entered a doctorate degree program at Princeton University, where he also taught logic design of computer systems.

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Robert J. Eide has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aegis Capital Corp., a registered broker-dealer, since 1984. Mr. Eide has been a director of Vector Group Ltd., a company engaged through its subsidiaries in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the United States and Russia, and VGR Holding, Inc., since November 1993. Mr. Eide also serves as a director of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, Inc., an investment banking and brokerage firm.