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 has been a member of our board of directors and vice president since inception. Mr. Aucamp has served as a Partner of New
River Capital Partners, a private equity fund, which he co-founded, since 1997. Prior to co-founding New River Capital Partners, from 1995 to 1997, Mr.
Aucamp was Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning for Blockbuster Entertainment Group, the world’s largest video store operator. In
this capacity, Mr. Aucamp sought to leverage the company’s core assets, membership base, brand strength, and operations capabilities; most of these
initiatives involved developing close working partnership with third parties.
Prior to joining Blockbuster from 1992 to January 1995, Mr. Aucamp was in the mergers and acquisitions department of W.R. Grace & Co., Inc.,
which at the time was a diversified Fortune 100 company with interests in healthcare, packaging, construction products and specialty chemicals. Mr. Aucamp
has additional transaction and development experience from his tenure at Ryder System during 2001 and Morgan Stanley from 1988 to 1990.
Mr. Aucamp has an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University. Mr. Aucamp was the
2002 Chairperson of the Florida Venture Forum.
 has been a member of SACI’s board of directors since its inception. Mr. Byrne has served as Administrative Partner of New
River Capital Partners, a private equity fund, which he co-founded, since 1997. Prior to co-founding New River Capital Partners, Mr. Byrne was the Vice-
Chairman of Blockbuster Entertainment Group, a division of Viacom, Inc. Additionally, Mr. Byrne was President of the Viacom Retail Group and represented
Blockbuster in all cross-Viacom opportunities.
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Prior to joining Blockbuster, from 1985 to 1987, Mr. Byrne was employed by KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Byrne has a BS and MA in Accounting
from the University of Florida. Mr. Byrne is a certified public accountant, and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Certilearn, Inc., Interstate
Connections, Intralearn Software Corporation, ITC Learning, Swisher International, Inc., Pivotal Fitness, and the Private Equity Committee of the University
of Florida Foundation.
 has been a member of our board of directors since inception. Since March 2000, Mr. Kramer has been a principal of Mercantile
Capital Group and Managing Director of the New York office.
Mr. Kramer brings over twenty years of investment experience in both the public and private capital markets. He started his career with Allen and
Company, a private equity firm, and recently served as a Vice President from 1997 to 2001. On behalf of Mercantile Capital, Mr. Kramer performed due
diligence negotiated and structured investments in companies operating in the wireless infrastructure, data communications, B2B commerce, Internet
infrastructure, telecom technologies/infrastructure and entertainment technologies and services sectors. Mr. Kramer serves on the board of of Genco Shipping
and Trading Limited, a drybulk shipping company that recently filed a registration statement for an initial public offering, and MoveOnIn, Inc., a relocation
and lifestyle services private company.
 has been a member of our board of directors since September 23, 2005. Mr. Branden is currently the Chief Financial Officer of
Huizenga Holdings, Inc., the personal investment and management vehicle for H. Wayne Huizenga, and has been with the firm since 1996. Mr. Branden
previously practiced public accounting for 14 years with Arthur Andersen from 1982 to 1984 and with Machen, Powers & Disque, certified public
accountants, from 1984 to 1996. Mr. Branden is currently a member of the board of directors of Swisher International, Inc., a restroom hygiene services
franchisor. Mr. Branden is a Certified Public Accountant and received his BA from Auburn University in 1982.
Our board of directors is divided into three classes with only one class of directors being elected in each year and each class serving a three-year term.
The term of office of the first class of directors, consisting of Thomas C. Byrne, will expire at our first annual meeting of stockholders. The term of office of
the second class of directors, consisting of Thomas E. Aucamp and Nathaniel Kramer, will expire at the second annual meeting. The term of office of the third
class of directors, consisting of Steven R. Berrard and I. Steven Edelson, will expire at the third annual meeting.
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Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires our directors and executive officers and persons who own more than 10% of a
registered class of our equity securities, to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in beneficial
ownership of Common Stock and other equity securities of us. Directors, officers and greater than 10% stockholders are required by SEC regulations to
furnish us with all Section 16(a) forms they file.
To our knowledge, based solely upon our review of the copies of such reports furnished to us, we believe that all of our directors, officers and greater
than 10% stockholders have complied with the applicable Section 16(a) reporting requirements except that: an initial report of ownership was filed late by Cris
V. Branden.
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Our board of directors has determined that Mr. Byrne, Mr. Kramer and Mr. Branden are “independent directors” as defined in the American Stock
Exchange listing standards and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act. We
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