Edwin Burton, III Biography and Net Worth

Dr. Edwin Thomas Burton III, Ph.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. He Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia since 1988; has held teaching positions at York College, Rice University and Cornell University, and has written and lectured extensively in the field of Economics Consultant to numerous companies on investment strategy and investment banking. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System for state and local employees of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1994 to 2001 and then again from 2004 to 2014, and served as its Chairman from 1997 until March 2001 .Senior Vice President, Managing Director and director of Interstate Johnson Lane, Incorporated, an investment banking firm, where he was in charge of the Corporate Finance and Public Finance Divisions from 1994 to 1995 President of Rothschild Financial Services, Incorporated (a subsidiary of Rothschild, Inc. of North America), an investment .banking company headquartered in New York City that is involved in proprietary trading, securities lending and other investment activities from 1987 to 1994 . Consultant to the American Stock Exchange from 1985 to 1986 Senior vice president with Smith Barney (or its corporate predecessor) from 1976 to 1984 . Member of the Board of Directors of Chase Investors, a privately-held registered investment advisor, since 2004 Former member of the Board of Directors of Capstar Hotel Company, a publicly-traded hotel company, Virginia National Bank, a publicly-traded commercial bank, and SNL Securities, a private securities data company B.A. degree in Economics from Rice University and Ph.D. degree in Economics from Northwestern University.