Mr. Widmann has been an active member of the US financial community as a lawyer, venture capitalist and investment banker since 1964. He was a Principal of the investment banking firm of Tanner & Co., Inc. from 1996 to 2004, providing advice and negotiation and evaluation services to corporations ranging from Fortune 200 companies to mid-sized firms. From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Widmann was a Senior Managing Director of Chemical Banking Corporation. He established the Bank’s fee-based corporate finance business in 1986. He was responsible for projects in the United States, South America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Widmann was a founder and CEO of First Reserve Corporation, the largest independent energy investing firm in the U.S. He was also Senior Vice President with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, responsible for the firm’s global investment banking business. He has also been a Vice President with New Court Securities Corporation (now Rothschild, Inc.), completing a series of venture capital and merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Widmann began his career in 1964 as an SEC trial attorney. Mr. Widmann was Chairman of Lydall, Inc. (NYSE), Manchester, Connecticut, a manufacturer of thermal, acoustical and filtration materials, from 1998 to 2004, and a board member from 1974 to 2004. He is a director of two other public companies: Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., Port Washington, New York, a real estate investment trust and Standard Motor Products, Inc., Long Island City, New York, a manufacturer of automobile parts. He was a director of First Reserve Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut from its inception in 1980 until December 1995, of Weatherford Enterra, Houston, Texas from 1993 to 1998, and of Paxar Corporation, White Plains, New York, from 2004 until its sale in 2007. Mr. Widmann has been a senior moderator of the Executive Seminar in the Humanities at The Aspen Institute since 1990 and of the Liberty Fellowship in Greenville, SC, since 2005. He has been a Director of the March of Dimes of Greater New York since 1988. He is also a Director of Oxfam America, an affiliate of Oxfam International, the global humanitarian and crisis relief organization. Mr. Widmann earned a B.A. degree from Brown University, cum laude, and a J.D. Degree from Columbia Law School.