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in areas relating to education, technology and career management and the improvement of individual and
corporate performance. From 1990 to 1996, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sega of
America. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Matchbox Group from
1987 to 1990. Prior to that, he served as President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Mattel, Inc. Mr. Kalinske
has served as Chairman of the Toy Manufacturers Association of America and, in 1997, he was inducted into the
Toy Industry Hall of Fame. Mr. Kalinske serves on the board of directors of Blackboard Inc., a publicly held
company that provides enterprise learning software applications, and is a member of its audit committee.
Mr. Kalinske earned a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona.
Paul T. Marinelli was appointed to our board of directors in March 2009. Mr. Marinelli has served as Vice
President of Lawrence Investments, LLC, or Lawrence Investments, a private equity investment firm that is
controlled by Lawrence J. Ellison, since May 2004. Mr. Marinelli was proposed for membership on our board of
directors by Mollusk Holdings, a subsidiary of Lawrence Investments and the owner of shares representing a
majority of our outstanding voting power. From September 1999 to May 2004, he held the position of Corporate
Development Group Director at Cadence Design Systems, an electronic design automation software and services
company, where he managed several dozen acquisitions and strategic investments. Prior to 1999, Mr. Marinelli
held various financial roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, AlliedSignal and EMCON. Mr. Marinelli earned a B.S.
from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Mr. Marinelli has served as
a member of our nominating and corporate governance committee since March 2009.
Stanley E. Maron was elected to our board of directors in September 1997. Since 1994, Mr. Maron has served
as a senior partner in the law firm of Maron & Sandler, a Professional Corporation, which he co-founded. He
specializes in corporate and tax law. Prior to forming Maron & Sandler, he was a senior partner in the Los Angeles
law firm of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, serving the firm from 1975 to 1994. Mr. Maron currently serves
as a director of Heron International, a privately held European real estate development company, and also serves as
an officer and director of privately held companies affiliated with Knowledge Learning Corporation, a for-profit
provider of early child care learning. Mr. Maron earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a
J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Maron has served on our audit committee since July 2006,
and on our compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees since May 1, 2008.
E. Stanton McKee, Jr. was appointed to our board of directors in November 2003. From 1989 until his
retirement in November 2002, Mr. McKee served in various positions at Electronic Arts Inc., a developer and
publisher of interactive entertainment, most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and
Administrative Officer. Mr. McKee serves on the board of directors of ArcSight, Inc., a publicly held company
that provides security and compliance management software and is a member of its nominating and corporate
governance committee and chairs its audit committee. Mr. McKee also serves on the board of directors of several
privately held companies. Mr. McKee earned a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. Mr. McKee has
served as the Chairman of our audit committee since November 2003.
David C. Nagel, Ph.D. was appointed to our board of directors in September 2005. From December 2001
until his retirement in May 2005, Dr. Nagel served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of
PalmSource, Inc., a provider of operating system software platforms for smart mobile devices. From September
2001 to December 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Platform Solutions Group at Palm, Inc., a
provider of mobile computing solutions. Prior to joining Palm, from April 1996 to September 2001, Dr. Nagel
was Chief Technology Officer of AT&T Corp., a communications service provider, President of AT&T Labs, a
corporate research and development unit of AT&T, and Chief Technology Officer of Concert, a partnership
between AT&T and British Telecom. Dr. Nagel serves on the board of directors and compensation committee of
Tessera Technologies, Inc., a publicly held company that develops semiconductor packaging technology, and on
the board of directors and compensation committee of Openwave Systems Inc., a publicly-held company that
develops software for mobile and broadband operators. Dr. Nagel earned a B.S., an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the
University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Nagel has served as a member of our compensation committee since
February 2006 (and as the Chairman since November 2006), and as a member of our strategy committee from
April 2006 until it was dissolved in July 2007.
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