2019 Shareholder Information

Mark L. Mitchell

Mark Mitchell served as a director of the Company from December 1996 until January 2006 and served as a member of the Company's board of advisors in 1993. He was reelected as a director in November 2006. He is a principal at CNH Partners, LLC, an investment management firm, which he co-founded in 2001.

Mitchell has served as Adjunct Professor of Finance at Booth Business School, University of Chicago since 2017. Previously, he was a finance professor at Harvard University from 1999 to 2003 and was a finance professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago from 1990 to 1999. He was a senior financial economist for the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1987 to 1990, a member of the Nasdaq quality of markets committee from 2003 to 2005, and a member of the economic advisory board of NASD from 1995 to 1998.

Mitchell received a doctorate in applied economics and a master's degree in economics from Clemson University. He received a bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in economics from the University of Louisiana at Monroe.