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Board of Directors

Sir Michael Bunbury, Chairman, Independent Director

Sir Michael Bunbury is an experienced director of listed and private investment, property and financial services companies and trustee for high net worth families. He is currently the Chairman of JP Morgan Claverhouse Investment Trust plc, Director of Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust plc (which has been an investor in numerous HarbourVest funds, including two of the seeded funds and three of the new funds in which the Company invested at listing), Director of Invesco Perpetual Select Trust plc, and a consultant to Smith & Williamson. Sir Michael began his career in 1968 at Buckmaster & Moore, a member of The Stock Exchange, before joining Smith & Williamson, Investment Managers and Chartered Accountants, in 1974 as a Partner. He later served as Director and Chairman and remains a consultant to the firm. Sir Michael has his own business, Michael Bunbury Associates, giving high-level financial advice to a range of families on their business and property assets.

D. Brooks Zug, Director

Brooks Zug is a senior managing director of HarbourVest Partners, LLC and a founder of HarbourVest. He is responsible for overseeing HarbourVest's U.S. and non-U.S. partnership and direct investments. He joined the corporate finance department of John Hancock in 1977 and in 1982 co-founded Hancock Venture Partners, which later became HarbourVest Partners. He serves as an advisory committee member for a number of U.S. and foreign private equity partnerships, including funds managed by Accel Partners, Advent International, Doughty Hanson, Permira, Silver Lake Partners, and TA Associates. Brooks is a past Trustee of Lehigh University and a current Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His previous experience includes investment banking for Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis (1970 to 1974) and private investments with Sun Life of Canada (1974 to 1977). He received a BS from Lehigh University in 1967 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1970. Brooks received his CFA designation in 1977.

George R. Anson, Director

George Anson manages HarbourVest Partners (U.K.) Limited, which supports HarbourVest's investment and client service activities in Europe. George joined the Firm's London subsidiary in 1990 and serves on the advisory boards of a number of European private equity partnerships, including funds managed by Atlas Venture, BC Partners, BS Private Equity, Cinven, Doughty Hanson, Ethos Private Equity, Global Finance, and Industri Kapital. George's previous experience includes seven years with Pantheon Ventures managing European private equity funds and companies. A U.K. citizen, he was born in Canada and educated in the U.S. George received a BA in Finance from the University of Iowa in 1982.

Jean-Bernard Schmidt, Independent Director

Jean-Bernard Schmidt is Managing Partner of Sofinnova Partners, a leading European venture capital firm based in Paris. Jean-Bernard joined Sofinnova in 1973 as an investment manager. In 1981 he became President of Sofinnova Inc. in San Francisco, managing Sofinnova's U.S. venture capital funds until 1987, when he returned to Paris to head the Sofinnova group. He then began focusing Sofinnova's investments in Europe on technology and early stage projects in information technologies and life sciences. In 1989, he launched the first Sofinnova Capital fund. He is a past and current board member of many technology companies in the U.S. and France. Between 1998 and 2001, he was a board member of AFIC, the French Venture Capital Association. From June 2003 to June 2004, he was Chairman of EVCA (the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association). Jean-Bernard is a graduate of Essec Business School in Paris and holds a M.B.A. from Columbia University in New York.

Andrew W. Moore, Independent Director

Andrew Moore is the Group Chairman of Acell Holdings Limited and Cherry Godfrey Holdings and Director of Adam & Company International Limited, Adam & Company International Trustees Limited, Channel Islands Development Corporation Limited, Sumo Limited, and Direct Communications International (Guernsey) Limited. Andrew joined Williams & Glyns Bank, which subsequently became The Royal Bank of Scotland, after obtaining a diploma in business studies. He moved to Guernsey to establish and act as Managing Director of a trust company for The Royal Bank of Scotland in 1985. During his career Andrew held a number of senior management responsibilities, which led him to be appointed as head of the corporate trust and fund administration businesses for The Royal Bank of Scotland in Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man, which provided services to many offshore investment structures holding a wide variety of asset classes. Andrew has also acted as both a non-executive director and executive director of a number of Guernsey banks.

Keith B. Corbin, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee

Keith Corbin is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (A.C.I.B.) (1976) and Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (T.E.P.) (1990). He has been involved in the management of international financial services businesses in various international centres during the last 30 years. Currently the Group Executive Chairman of Nerine International Holdings Limited, which has operations in Guernsey, British Virgin Islands and Switzerland, he also serves as a non-executive director on the board of various regulated financial services businesses, including investment funds, insurance companies and other companies, some of which are listed on recognised Stock Exchanges or subsidiaries of listed companies. Those assignments also include the chairmanship of audit and remuneration committees. He also serves as a chairman or committee member of various representative bodies.

Paul R.P. Christopher, Independent Director

Paul Christopher is an English Solicitor, Guernsey Advocate, and a partner in the Guernsey law firm Ozannes. He specialises in investment, finance and corporate work. He regularly advises on the establishment of offshore investment funds of all kinds and on the regulatory and commercial issues in relation to them. He has an established trust practice and acts for a number of the leading trust institutions in Guernsey. He is the Bar Council representative on the Guernsey International Business Association's council and is a member of the Guernsey Joint Money Laundering Steering Group.