Christopher Shilakes

CHRISTOPHER SHILAKES, a First Vice President at Merrill Lynch & Co., has
been a member of the Securities Research Division since October 1993.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he was an Investor Relations Director at
Oracle Corporation, a leading relational database software and services
vendor. Before that, he was a Senior Research Analyst with Alex. Brown &
Sons for four years, covering the systems software and relational
database industries. Mr. Shilakes was named to the All America Research
Team in the Server Enterprise Software category from 1997-2000 by
Institutional Investor Magazine. He earned a BA in Economics from
Princeton University.