John Hawkins has served on our board of directors since 2006. Mr. Hawkins has served as Managing Partner and co-founder of Generation Partners, a private equity firm that provides capital to companies in the business and information services, media and communications, and healthcare services industries, through growth equity and buyout investments, since 1995. Prior to founding Generation Partners, Mr. Hawkins was a General Partner at Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., a venture capital firm which he joined in 1987. Prior to that, Mr. Hawkins was an investment banker at Alex. Brown & Sons, from 1986 to 1987. Mr. Hawkins has served on the board of directors of more than 20 companies, including HotJobs.com, Ltd., iCrossing, Inc., P-Com, Inc., thePlatform for Media, Inc., Agility Recovery Solutions, Inc., High End Systems, Inc. and ShopWiki Corporation, where he also serves as Chairman. Mr. Hawkins is also Membership Co-Chair of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization. Mr. Hawkins holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in English from Harvard College. Mr. Hawkins was nominated to serve on our board of directors pursuant to our Third Amended and Restated Stockholders' Agreement.

Mr. Hawkins has over 25 years of investment banking and private equity investing experience, combined with a strong track-record investing in technology, media and business services companies, that brings extensive business and strategic expertise to his role as a member of our board of directors, audit committee and nominating and corporate governance committee.