lfred E. Mann has been one of our (WTN) directors since April 1999, our Chairman of the Board since December 2001 and our Chief Executive Officer since October 2003. Mr. Mann has founded and largely funded 17 companies in his career. Nine were acquired at an overall total of almost $8 billion, and two companies became public.

In 1993, Mr. Mann founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MiniMed Inc. until August 2001 when it was acquired by Medtronic, Inc. Medtronic MiniMed develops, manufactures and distributes microinfusion systems and continuous glucose monitoring systems that have revolutionized the treatment of Type 1 diabetes. Mr. Mann founded and funded Medical Research Group (MRG), a developer of an artificial pancreas. MRG was also acquired by Medtronic in 2001.

Mr. Mann also founded and served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Bionics Corporation from its founding in 1993 until it was acquired by Boston Scientific Corporation in 2004. Advanced Bionics developed neurostimulation devices for various neural deficits, including cochlear stimulators.

Previously, Mr. Mann founded and was Chairman of the Board and CEO of Pacesetter Systems, Inc., which developed, manufactured and distributed cardiac pacemakers, from 1972 until 1985 when it was acquired by Siemens, AG.

From 1985 to September 1992, Mr. Mann continued to serve as Chairman and CEO of the successor company, Siemens-Pacesetter, Inc., Pacesetter is now the Cardiac Rhythm Management unit of St. Jude Medical. Prior to 1972, he was President of Spectrolab, an electro-optical and aerospace systems company, and Heliotek, a semiconductor and electro-optical components manufacturer.

Mr. Mann founded these companies in 1956 and 1960, respectively, sold them to Textron Inc. in 1960 and continued to lead them until 1972, when he left for Pacesetter. They are now part of the Boeing Company.

Mr. Mann founded and endowed, and from 1985 until 2006 served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Alfred Mann Foundation, a nonprofit research organization devoted to development of advanced medical products in a variety of fields. Mr. Mann is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfred Mann Institutes at the University of Southern California, Purdue University, and The Technion Institute (Israel), all of these medical research foundations founded and endowed principally by Mr. Mann. He also serves as a Trustee for the University of Southern California, as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Keck USC School of Medicine, and as the Chairman of the Southern California Biomedical Council, a nonprofit association dedicated to the fostering of the bio-medical industry in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. Alfred Mann also serves as a Director of the Nevada Cancer Institute.

Mr. Mann holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles and honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Southern California, The Johns Hopkins University, Western University and the Technion Institute (Israel). Mr. Mann is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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