Claudius E Watts IV

Claudius E. Watts IV became a member of our board in December 2006. Mr. Watts is a member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and our Finance Committee. Mr. Watts is currently a Managing Director with The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm. Mr. Watts is the head of Carlyle’s Technology Buyout Group and focuses on buyouts and growth equity investments in large companies providing semiconductors, electronic systems, software, and software enabled services. Prior to joining Carlyle in 2000, Mr. Watts was a Managing Director in the mergers and acquisitions group of First Union Securities, Inc. (now Wells Fargo Securities) from May 1998 to April 2000, where he led the firm’s defense, aerospace and technical services mergers and acquisitions efforts. Mr. Watts joined First Union in conjunction with First Union’s 1998 acquisition of Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co., an investment banking firm, where Mr. Watts was a principal and had been employed since June 1994. Prior to attending graduate school Mr. Watts was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. Mr. Watts earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina and an M.B.A. from The Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Watts currently sits on the boards of CommScope, Inc., SS&C Technologies, Inc., and CPU Technology, Inc.