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Nick A. Caporella has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Of?cer of the Company since the Company was founded in 1985. He also served as President until September 2002. Since January 1992, Mr. Caporella's services have been provided to the Company through a management company, Corporate Management Advisors, Inc. (CMA), an entity which he owns. (See Management Services Agreement - Compensation and Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.) Mr. Caporella previously served as President and Chief Executive Of?cer (since 1976) and Chairman of the Board (since 1979) of Burnup & Sims Inc. (a former af?liate of the Company) until March 1994. Throughout his extensive business career, he has founded or managed successful companies as Chief Executive Of?cer and has served as a public company Chairman, Chief Executive Of?cer or President since 1976. Mr. Caporella has achieved many awards as a businessman, including induction into the Institute of American Entrepreneurs and receipt of the Horatio Alger Award. He is involved in many research projects which endeavor to advance the cure of children's cancer and currently serves on the Professional Advisory Board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Mr. Caporella was selected by Forbes as one of America's greatest self-made Americans in honor of our nation's semiquincentennial.

Joseph G. Caporella has served as President of the Company since September 2002 and, prior to that date, served as Executive Vice President since January 1991. He is the son of Mr. Nick A. Caporella. Since joining the Company in 1988, he has been involved in all aspects of the Company's operations, including procurement, supply chain management, distribution and sales leadership.

Mr. George R. Bracken has served as Executive Vice President - Finance since July 2012. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President - Finance from October 2000 to July 2012 and Vice President and Treasurer from October 1996 to October 2000. Since 1992, Mr. Bracken's services have been provided to the Company by Corporate Management Advisors, Inc.

Samuel C. Hathorn, Jr. was employed by Trendmaker Homes, Inc. from 1981 until his retirement in September 2007. He served as President since 1983 and was appointed Chief Executive Of?cer in January 2007. Trendmaker Homes, Inc. was a Houston, Texas-based homebuilding and land development subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Company. Mr. Hathorn has also held senior executive and ?nancial positions with several public corporations and served as a director of Burnup & Sims Inc. from 1981 until 1997 and of Hartman Commercial Properties REIT, a publicly-traded real estate investment trust, from 2000 to 2005. Mr. Hathorn ?rst served on the Company's Board of Directors from its inception in 1985 to September 1993 while also serving as a Burnup & Sims Inc. director and representative during the Company's formative years. He returned to our Board in June 1997 and has served as a director since that time.

Stanley M. Sheridan was employed by Faygo Beverages, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Beverage Corp., from 1974 until his retirement in 2004. He joined Faygo Beverages, Inc. as Chief Financial Of?cer in 1974 and was promoted to President in May 1987 when Faygo Beverages, Inc. was acquired by National Beverage Corp. He holds an MBA in Accounting and has served on the boards of various private companies and charitable organizations.

Glenn J. Waldman has been practicing law in many capacities for more than four decades and, since 1991, as the founder of Waldman Law Firm, P.A. Mr. Waldman's diverse practice areas have included a broad spectrum of complex business matters ranging from commercial litigation to healthcare, intellectual property and employment matters. Over the past several years, his practice has focused almost exclusively on alternative dispute resolution, serving as a nationwide arbitrator, certi?ed state and federal court mediator, expert witness and court-appointed master or magistrate. Mr. Waldman holds an undergraduate Bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida where he also serves as a Trustee of the Levin College of Law. He has been a frequent lecturer on arbitration and mediation matters and has published scholarly articles on a variety of legal topics during the course of his extensive legal career.