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Mr. Pence is a native of Austin, Texas with close to 20 years of accounting, finance and transaction experience serving both as a part of management as well as an advisor across numerous industries. Most recently, Mr. Pence served in various senior leadership roles with Freescale including serving most recently as its Chief Financial Officer for EMEA, based in Toulouse, France During his tenure at Freescale Semiconductor he helped to successfully separate Motorola's $6 billion and 25,000 employee Semiconductor Products Division through an IPO and subsequently contributed to $11 billion of shareholder value creation as a result of the largest technology private equity transaction in history with a consortium led by the Blackstone Group. In addition Mr. Pence worked for Baxter Brinkmann International Corporation, as SVP, responsible for leading the finance and accounting organizations of a group of mature diversified consumer products companies. He was also with Allied Riser Communications, an early stage broadband services provider. While at Allied Riser Communications, he assisted in completing eight separate venture, IPO, debt and convertible financing transactions and four acquisitions as its VP of Corporate Finance. Mr. Pence received a BBA degree in Accounting and Finance from The University of Texas in Austin with honors and is also a CPA.