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(Ronald B. Richard is donating one hour of his time to the winning bidder)

Ronn Richard is the president of The Cleveland Foundation. Over the past 21 years, Mr. Richard has held a variety of senior management positions in both government and private sector industries.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Richard was the chief operating officer and managing partner of In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital fund. In this role, he worked to ensure prompt and effective delivery and insertion of In-Q-Tel-sourced technologies into the U.S. intelligence community. He also helped mentor management in the early stage companies in which In-Q-Tel invested.

Before joining In-Q-Tel, Mr. Richard spent 13 years at Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) in senior management positions. Among other assignments, he served as vice president for planning, technology, and public affairs, which included heading up Panasonic's corporate philanthropy; president of Panasonic's North American R&D operations; president of Panasonic Home & Commercial Products Company, a major sales and marketing division of Panasonic USA; vice president for internet business development; and as president of Panasonic Strategic Ventures Company, in charge of mergers and acquisitions and strategic alliances.

Early in his career, Mr. Richard was a U.S. diplomat, serving at the American Consulate General in Osaka/Kobe, Japan and at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. as a desk officer for North Korean, Greek and Turkish affairs, respectively. He also served in San Francisco as a Pearson Program Fellow where he researched and reported on U.S.-East Asian and U.S.-Latin American trade and investment flows and technology transfers.

Mr. Richard began his career at the non-profit Japan Society in New York City as director of the national public affairs program.

Mr. Richard serves on the board of trustees of Spelman College and on the board of advisors of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He also serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the British-American Biomedical Scholarship program (NIH-Oxford and Cambridge Universities). He also was a visiting professor for international business at Bennett College in North Carolina during the spring 2003 semester.

Mr. Richard holds a master's degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor's degree in history from Washington University in St. Louis.

Item Special Note

(Ronald B. Richard is donating one hour of his time to the winning bidder)

We accept Mastercard and Visa(not American Express) payments and cash payments. All money is due by Friday, July 16.

The executives will meet with the winning bidders at a time convenient to both parties, on or before December 1, 2004.