Mr. Peter Andrew Schloss is an independent director of our company. Mr. Schloss has been an executive director of TOM Online Inc. since 2003 and has acted as its chief legal officer since 2005. He previously served as chief financial officer of TOM Online Inc. Mr. Schloss was general counsel at IBM China/Hong Kong Corporation from 1989 to 1991. From 1991 to 1996, he acted as general counsel of Satellite Television Asian Region Limited, or STAR TV, and was a director of that company from 1993 to 1996 as well as director of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited from November 1991 to June 1993. He was also managing director of ING Barings and head of its Asia Media, Internet and Technology Group from 1999 to 2001 and managing director of Mediavest Limited before joining TOM Online Inc. in December 2003. Mr. Schloss received a bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Juris Doctor degree from Tulane University.