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William Decker has served as our independent director and chairman of the audit committee since October 2005. William Decker is a retired partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.Prior to his retirement in July 2005, William Decker was the partner in charge of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s Global Capital Markets Group. He led a team of more than 300 professionals in 25 countries that provided technical support to non-U.S. companies on SEC regulations, U.S. GAAP reporting and assistance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance work. William Decker has served as a senior adviser of VisionChina Media Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company that operates an out-of-home advertising network on mass transportation systems in China, since December 2011, and served as an independent director and the chairman of the audit committee of VisionChina Media Inc. from December 2007 to December 2011. William Decker received a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.