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Stephen F. O'Byrne is the President of Shareholder Value Advisors.  He has more than twenty years of experience as a consultant to companies on compensation, performance measurement and valuation issues.  

Mr. O’Byrne has been an advisor to the Securities & Exchange Commission, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, Institutional Shareholder Services and CS First Boston equity research. He was previously Senior Vice President of Stern Stewart & Co. and Principal of Towers Perrin. Mr. O’Byrne holds a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Mathematics from Northwestern University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. He is a certified public accountant, a member of the Illinois bar, a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and a former Lecturer in Mathematics at Loyola University of Chicago.

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Thomas K. Hahn is a Managing Director of Shareholder Value Advisors. He has more than a dozen years of experience as a financial economist. Mr. Hahn is an expert in cost of capital, valuation and performance measurement.  He has co-developed (with G. Bennett Stewart) a number of important firm performance rankings including the Stern Stewart Performance 1000 in the United States and the Stern Stewart Performance 500 in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Hahn was previously President of TKH Associates, consulting economist to Stern Stewart & Co. and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Mr. Hahn holds a B.A. degree in economics from The Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

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Peter A. Watson, Jr. is a Managing Director of Shareholder Value Advisors.  He has more than fifteen years of experience as a consultant to companies on compensation, performance measurement and valuation issues.  Mr. Watson was previously Managing Director & CFO of Venture Pay Group and a Principal of Towers Perrin in the executive compensation practice where he founded and co-ran the firm’s Value-Based Management practice.  

Mr. Watson holds a B.A. from the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University and has completed M.A. work in finance and organizational theory at the University of Chicago.  He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA).

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