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Board of Directors

Michael W. Brown
Independent Director
Member - Finance, Risk Management and Audit Committee
Member - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Mr. Brown, age 62, joined the Company as a Class I director in November 1997. He is a member of the Company’s Finance, Risk Management and Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Brown is the past Chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market Board of Directors and a past governor of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Mr. Brown joined Microsoft Corporation in 1989 as its Treasurer and became its Chief Financial Officer in 1993, in which capacity he served until his retirement in July 1997. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Brown spent 18 years with Deloitte & Touche LLP. Mr. Brown is also a director of EMC Corporation, VMware, Inc., 360networks, FatKat, Inc., Pipeline Financial Group, Inc., DayJet Corporation, and Thomas Weisel Partners and serves on the audit committees of EMC Corporation, Thomas Weisel Partners and VMware, Inc. He is a member of the Particle Economics Research Institute. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Washington in Seattle.


Jack M. Fields, Jr.
Independent Director
Member - Compensation Committee
Member - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Mr. Fields, age 56, joined the Company as a Class III director in January 1997 following his retirement from the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 16 years. Mr. Fields is a member of the Company’s Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. During 1995 and 1996, Mr. Fields served as Chairman of the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction and oversight of the Federal Communications Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Fields has been Chief Executive Officer of the Twenty-First Century Group in Washington, D.C. since January 1997. Mr. Fields also serves on the Board of Directors for AIM Management Group, Inc. and the Discovery Channel – Global Education Fund. Mr. Fields earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 from Baylor University, and graduated from Baylor Law School in 1977.



Dr. Eli Jones
Independent Director
Chairman - Compensation Committee
Member - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Dr. Jones, age 46, joined the Company as a Class I director in April 2004. He is Chairman of the Company’s Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Dr. Jones is Dean of the E. J. Ourso College of Business and Ourso Distinguished Professor of Business at Louisiana State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Louisiana State University, he was a Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean at the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston from 2007 to 2008, an Associate Professor of Marketing from 2002 to 2007, and an Assistant Professor from 1997 until 2002. He taught at Texas A&M University for several years before joining the faculty of the University of Houston. He served as the Executive Director of the Program for Excellence in Selling and the Sales Excellence Institute at the University of Houston from 1997 until 2007. Dr. Jones also serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and Industrial Marketing Management. He has conducted research and published articles on sales and sales management topics in major journals and is the co-author of a sales textbook, Selling ASAP, and a professional book: Strategic Sales Leadership. Dr. Jones is also an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, American Marketing Association, and the National Conference in Sales Management.  Before becoming a professor, Dr. Jones worked in sales and sales management for three Fortune 100 companies: Quaker Oats, Nabisco, and Frito-Lay. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism in 1982, his MBA in 1986, and his Ph.D. in 1997 from Texas A&M University.


Paul S. Lattanzio
Independent Director
Member - Finance, Risk Management and Audit Committee
Member - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Mr. Lattanzio, age 44, has been a Class III director of the Company since 1995. He is a member of the Company’s Finance, Risk Management and Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Lattanzio joined Bear Stearns, Inc. in July 2003 as a Senior Managing Director and head of Bear Growth Capital Partners, a private equity group.  He previously served as a Managing Director for TD Capital Communications Partners (f/k/a Toronto Dominion Capital), a venture capital investment firm, from July 1999 until July 2002. From February 1998 to March 1999, he was a co-founder and Senior Managing Director of NMS Capital Management, LLC, a $600 million private equity fund affiliated with NationsBanc Montgomery Securities. Prior to NMS Capital, Mr. Lattanzio served in several positions with various affiliates of Bankers Trust New York Corporation for over 13 years, most recently as a Managing Director of BT Capital Partners, Inc. for more than five years. Mr. Lattanzio has experience in a variety of investment banking disciplines, including mergers and acquisitions, private placements and restructuring. Mr. Lattanzio also serves on the Board of Directors of Harlem Furniture, LLC, Avid Health, Inc., New Chapter, Inc., Dairyland Corp., Everything But Water, LLC, Francesca's Holdings Corp., and Crestcom Holdings, Ltd. Mr. Lattanzio received his Bachelor of Science in Economics with honors from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in 1984. 


Gregory E. Petsch
Independent Director
Chairman - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Member - Compensation Committee

Mr. Petsch, age 57, joined the Company as a Class I director in October 2002. He is Chairman of the Company’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Petsch retired from Compaq Computer Corporation in 1999 where he had held various positions since 1983, most recently as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing and Quality since 1991. Prior to joining Compaq, he worked for 10 years for Texas Instruments. In 1992, Mr. Petsch was voted Manufacturing Executive of the Year by Upside Magazine, and in 1993 - 1995 he was nominated Who’s Who of Global Business Leaders. He is founder and President of Petsch Foundation, Inc. He earned a Bachelor of Business Technology degree from the University of Houston in 1978.



Richard G. Rawson
Management Director

Mr. Rawson, age 59, President of the Company and its subsidiaries, is a Class III director and has been a director of the Company since 1989. He has been President since August 2003. Before being elected President, he served as Executive Vice President of Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company from February 1997 until August 2003. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company since 1989. Prior to joining the Company in 1989, Mr. Rawson served as a Senior Financial Officer and Controller for several companies in the manufacturing and seismic data processing industries. Mr. Rawson also serves on the University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business Dean’s Executive Advisory Board and on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater Houston. He previously served the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO) as President (1999-2000), First Vice President, Second Vice President and Treasurer. In addition, he previously served as Chairman of the Accounting Practices Committee of NAPEO for five years. Mr. Rawson has a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Houston.



Paul J. Sarvadi
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Sarvadi, age 51, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the Company and its subsidiaries, is a Class II director and has been a director and Chairman of the Board since the Company’s inception in 1986. He has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 1989. He also served as President of the Company from 1989 until August 21, 2003. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and Treasurer of the Company from its inception in 1986 until April 1987, and then as Vice President from April 1987 until 1989. He attended Rice University and the University of Houston prior to starting and operating several small companies. Mr. Sarvadi has served as President of NAPEO and was a member of its Board of Directors for five years. He also served as President of the Texas Chapter of the NAPEO for three of the first four years of its existence. Mr. Sarvadi serves on the Board of Trustees of the DePelchin Children’s Center in Houston. In 1995, Mr. Sarvadi was selected as Houston’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for service industries and in 2001, he was selected as the 2001 National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for service industries. In 2004, he received the Conn Family Distinguished New Venture Leader Award from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. In 2007, he was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame.



Austin P. Young
Independent Director
Chairman - Finance, Risk Management and Audit Committee
Member - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Mr. Young, age 67, joined the Company as a Class II director in January 2003. He is Chairman of the Company’s Finance, Risk Management and Audit Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Young served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of CellStar Corporation from 1999 to December 2001 when he retired. From 1996 to 1999, he served as Executive Vice President - Finance and Administration of Metamor Worldwide, Inc. Mr. Young also held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of American General Corporation for over eight years and was a partner in the Houston and New York offices of KPMG before joining American General. Mr. Young currently serves as a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committees of Tower Group, Inc. and Amerisafe, Inc. He is a member of the Houston and State Chapters of the Texas Society of CPAs, the American Institute of CPAs, and the Financial Executives Institute. He holds an accounting degree from the University of Texas.


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