Michael A. Callen

Overview

Michael A. Callen, age 66, serves as our Director since May 1994. He is also a Director of our subsidiaries. Mr. Callen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in Economics and Russian. Mr. Callen has been President of Avalon Argus Associates, a financial consulting firm, since 1996. Mr. Callen was Senior Advisor, The National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from April 1993 to April 1996. He was an independent consultant from January 1992 until June 1993, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Business School during 1992. He was a Director of Citicorp and Citibank and a Sector Executive at Citicorp, responsible for corporate banking activities in North America, Europe and Japan, from 1987 to January 1992. Mr. Callen also serves as a Director of AMBAC, Inc., a leading provider of financial guarantees to the structured, asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities sectors.