Howard A. Bain III

Mr. Bain is an independent consultant with expertise in all aspects of corporate finance, operations, internal control systems for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and public company financial and accounting issues.

Mr. Bain has served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or Senior Financial Executive of five public software/IT companies during more than three decades in the Silicon Valley. He was most recently CFO of Portal Software, a developer of customer revenue management software for communications and content service providers, from 2001 to 2004. Prior to joining Portal, Mr. Bain held CFO positions at Vicinity Corporation in 2000, Informix from 1999 to 2000, and Symantec Corporation from 1991 to 1999. He has also held senior financial and accounting management positions with Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation and consulted with Arthur Andersen LLP, where he was a certified public accountant.

Mr. Bain currently serves on the boards of Learning Tree International, a provider of instructor-led, hands-on courses and certification programs for technology professionals and managers in business and government organizations, and PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data security and encryption solutions. He holds a B.S. in Business from California Polytechnic University. Mr. Bain currently qualifies as an independent director and certified financial expert under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.