Patrick S. McGurn
Executive VP & Special Counsel Institutional Shareholder Services

Patrick S. McGurn is Executive Vice President & Special Counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, a RiskMetrics Group company. Prior to joining ISS in April 1996, Mr. McGurn was director of the Corporate Governance Service at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a not-for-profit firm that provided governance research to investors. He also served as a private attorney, a congressional staff member and a department head at the Republican National Committee. He is a graduate of Duke University and the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the bar in California, the District of Columbia, Maryland and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mr. McGurn serves on the Advisory Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors and was a member of the NACD's 2001 Blue Ribbon Commission on Board Evaluations.

Mr. McGurn is frequently cited by business publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Fortune. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, Bloomberg Radio and TV, BBC Radio, CBS Evening News, CNBC, CNN, Marketplace, NBC Nightly News, Nightly Business Report, National Public Radio, Tech TV and ABC's This Week. He is a frequent presenter at conferences.

ISS is the world's leading provider of proxy voting services and corporate governance research. ISS serves more than 1,700 institutional investor clients. Founded in 1985, ISS recommends votes on ballot issues for more than 35,000 shareholder meetings across 115 markets around the globe. ISS's Corporate Governance Quotient is the global, industry-standard benchmark for ranking governance practices at more than 7,500 public companies. (To learn about ISS or CGQ, visit www.issproxy.com, www.isscgq.com or contact him directly at 301-556-0402 or patrick.mcgurn@issproxy.com.)

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