Walter V. Smiley

Walter V. Smiley, has been a board member since the Company’s founding and serves as consultant and senior advisor. He is available for special projects and participates in special task forces as needed. Walter founded Systematics Inc., a leading provider of financial data-processing software and services in 1968, and served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for more than 20 years. The company was consistently ranked by Forbes magazine among America’s top 200 small companies, and Business Week once named Smiley as one of the “People who run America’s 1,000 most powerful companies.” Systematics was acquired by ALLTEL Corporation in 1990 for $550 million. Walter is now President of Smiley Investment Company, which he founded in 1989. He has a B.S. degree in Industrial Management and an MBA from the University of Arkansas.