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Douglas W. McDaniel
McDaniel & Associates
2840 West Bay Drive #206
Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770
Tel : 727.417.7521
Fax : 866.232.1278

McDaniel & Associates offers Corporate Inspector General (CIG) services that implement the successful tradition of an IG framework for the civilian market. Corporate Inspector General (CIG) responsibilities can include:

While the tradition of the IG system in the United States emerged from the military, its proliferation into non-military organizations is a testament to the effectiveness of this internal governance model. As organizations are now faced with the complexities of counterbalancing compliance with efficiency, the IG system offers an attractive alternative that continually improves organizational control and navigation. 1/2006

Vasin, Heyn & Company
5000 N. Parkway Calabasas, Suite 301
Calabasas, CA 91302
Voice: 818-222-3500 ° Fax: 818-222-3505
E-mail: info@vhcoaudit.com

Auditors & Advisors for charitable, educational, and scientific nonprofits
Centered on Outcomes
Partnered for Resiliency
Advocates of Sustainability

Vasin, Heyn & Company has been helping nonprofit organizations and socially responsible businesses learn, grow, and prosper, for over thirty years. A team of energetic professionals, satisfying a wide range of client needs, we are small enough to respond quickly and assertively to what you want, yet large enough to offer a broad range of expertise to provide what you need. Areas of expertise include:

Madison Board Services
268 Bush Street, #340
San Francisco, CA 94104
Contact: Jacqueline LeSage Krause
Phone: 415.294.4480
E-mail: jlk@madisonboards.com
Website: www.madisonboards.com

Madison Board Services is a corporate governance consulting firm that helps boards of directors to implement good governance processes, comply with regulatory requirements and benchmark their activities relative to best practices.

We also actively support and seek opportunities to participate in efforts by multilateral institutions, countries, and companies to establish strong corporate governance principles around the world, particularly in emerging markets.

In addition to more information about Madison Board Services, our website highlights specific issues of interest for public, private, not-for-profit and non-U.S. corporations and provides commentary on the latest corporate governance trends. 7/2003

Richard Kramer
Organizational Resource Group, Inc.
1800 Cooper Point Rd, Bldg #14
Olympia, Washington 98502 USA
Phone: 360-352-5104
Fax: 360-528-2080
E-mail: info@orggroup.com
Website: www.orggroup.com

Board Cultural Assessment^TM
Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Organization's Board
An effective, productive and focused Board can dramatically improve the performance of the organizations they serve. To help Boards improve their performance, we’ve drawn on our more than 20 years of experience assessing workplace culture to develop an assessment tool designed to specifically measure Board effectiveness.
Our Assessment process helps in a variety of ways including:

What’s the Board Cultural Assessment and what’s measured?
The Assessment, which can be administered on-line, provides detailed feedback and baseline data around key human and operational systems including leadership, accountability, strategic focus, decision making, meeting management, recruitment, and strength of board-staff relations. Like dashboard gauges of a car, the Assessment data is used to see what's going on "under-the-hood" in a board and its organization, and to determine what areas need attention to increase board effectiveness. Even incremental improvements in your Board can result in dramatic organizational benefits. 8/2002

Accountability Central
Contact: Hank Boerner - Editor and Publisher
Governance & Accountability Institute
90 Second Street
Mineola New York 11501
Email: hboerner@accountability-central.com
Phone: 516-248-2383 ext 19
Fax: 516-248-4045

Web site: www.accountability-central.com

No charge for access to this comprehensive Web-based portal and library focused on “accountability” and its key aspects or expressions for leaders in the corporate, public and social (not-for-profit) sectors. Topic areas include: corporate, institutional and public governance; shareholder activism; ethics; socially responsible & sustainable investing; transparency & disclosure; corporate social responsibility; accounting & corporate reporting; capital markets; globalization - and more. A range of news and views is presented for “Companies in the Bull's Eye,” corporations attracting public attention and stakeholder scrutiny. The editors publish newsletters and alerts related to these “accountability matters.” (Web site registration to receive required.) The Institute also publishes the comprehensive Community Investment Network Web site - www.communityinvestmentnetwork.org.

9/2007

Jack Beauregard
Innervisions Associates, Inc.
5 Warwick Park
Cambridge, MA 02140
Phone: 617-267-9727
E-mail Address: jack@sustainedgrowth.com
Jack is the former CEO of a multimillion dollar corporation who attended Harvard Divinity School to discover how to create a balanced approach to corporate governance. His seminar, The New Paradigm for Corporate Governance helps board members implement a new balanced model for corporate governance, which restores corporate balance and provides an ethical rudder. This new business paradigm creates a balanced mind set for corporate governance which enables board members to:

The content of The New Paradigm for Corporate Governance seminar is based on a twenty-two year research project and is conveniently designed to fit into your schedule. Call 1-800-617-6715 for information and available dates for The New Paradigm for Corporate Governance Seminar.

7/2002

Better Board Governance, LLC
Richard Hunter, PhD
136 Wenneker Drive
Ladue, MO 63124
(314) 569-2736 Office
Better Board Governance, LLC (BBG) builds stronger companies by enhancing the effectiveness of governing boards through assessment, research, training and coaching services. As communication professionals, the BBG principals focus their talents on board communication practices. The company has a broad spectrum of experience including Fortune 50 publicly-traded corporations, small and large not-for-profit companies and governmentally-appointed special interest boards. BBG brings a wealth of commentary insight, downloadable governance related articles, readily accessible governance assessment tools, and is the host of ongoing governance research studies.

9/2005

Hank Boerner is Chairman of The Governance & Accountability Institute, a research, publishing (print & electronic), issue monitoring, and advisory firm serving leaders in the corporate, public and social (not-for-profit) sectors. He is an expert in key “accountability” topics and issues - corporate, institutional and public governance; corporate social responsibility; socially responsible / sustainable investing; ethics; transparency & disclosure; and on organizations in crisis. Hank Boerner writes and comments extensively on these topics. He edits the “Accountability Central” Web site; "Corporate Governance & Accountability UpDate" newsletter; issue briefing papers; and, contributes to such publications as NIRI Investor Relations Update and Corporate Finance Review (RIA/Thomson).

He is a former Managing Director, Rowan & Blewitt, the now-closed issue management, crisis management and corporate communications counseling organization serving the Fortune 500 and multinationals. Boerner is former head of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) communications department.

9/2007

Mike Cohn
Cohn Family Business Group Inc.
5080 N. 40th St., Ste. 235
Phoenix, AZ 85018
phone: 602-468-9667
fax: 602-468-9704
E-mail Address: Mikec@cohnfbgrp.com
Advisor to large and medium size family-owned and controlled businesses (public and private)on a national level. Focus is on ownership succession in multi-generational companies and related governance issues. We have special expertise and experience to help you meet the challenge of these transitions:

Their quarterly newsletter, TRANSITIONS & traditions®, helps stakeholders confront tough technical and emotional family business issues.

11/99

Nicky Downing
Guideline Risk Management Software
P O Box 5912
Kengray
Johannesburg, GT
South Africa 2100
E-mail Address: guide@icon.co.za
URL: http://www.guideline.co.za
Guideline Risk Management provides an integrated corporate governance management system that will supply management with risk and insurance information in a consolidated and useable format.

6/2000

James McRitchie, Editor
CorpGov.Net
9295 Yorkship Court, Elk Grove, CA 95758
e-mail: jm@corpgov.net
URL: http://www.corpgov.net
Available for speaking engagements and independent research.

3/2000

Graeme Nahkies
BoardWorks International
P O Box 1630
Wellington, New Zealand
phone: 64 4 499 7054; fax: 64 4 473 6162
E-mail Address: Graeme.Nahkies@xtra.co.nz
Graeme Nahkies is a partner in BoardWorks International, a specialist corporate governance consulting group with offices in Wellington, New Zealand and Melborne, Australia. BoardWorks facilitates the achievement of excellence in the boardroom. Services include: best practice governance presentations and training; governance policy development; governance structure reviews; board and director performance evaluation; strategic thinking facilitation. BoardWorks International also publishes Good Governance, a bi-monthly newletter as a foum for the exploration of boardroom "best practice."

3/99

Edward B. Merino
Office of the Chairman
19 Edgestone
Irvine, CA 92606
phone: 949-552-3685
fax: 508-546-0422
E-mail Address: edmerino@virtual-board.com
Mr. Merino is managing director and founder of Office of the Chairman, a provider of corporate governance services. He was, for six (6) years, the director of corporate governance at Deloitte & Touche LLP, serving as a corporate governance specialist. His clients included Ingram Micro, National Education Corporation, Pacific Scientific Company, Freedom Communications and many early-stage technology companies, as well as family businesses.

Merino's achievements cap more than 25 years and corporate governance experience as a director, chief executive officer and chairman. He is also on the board of the Forum for Corporate Directors in Orange County, and is chairman of its education committee. He attended the Harvard Business School's "Making Corporate Boards More Effective" program, and Directors College, a series of executive education programs presented by Stanford University Law School in conjunction with the Securities & Exchange Commissions, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

3/2000

Dr.Y.R.K.Reddy
Yaga Consulting Pvt Ltd
8-2-695/A/1, Road 12, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad, India 500034
phone: (91)40-3393315 / 3302105
fax: (91)40-3318349
E-mail Address: yaga@hd1.vsnl.net.in
Research and Training services in Corporate Governnace of Public Enterprises; Resolving Ethical Dilemmas at Board level. Interested in collaborative work with US / Europe based consultants. Author of the Report on "Corporate Governance and Public Enterprises" commissioned by the Standing Conference on Public Enterprises, New Delhi. Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Corporate Governance of ASCI Journal of Management.

3/2000

Laurence J. Stybel,Ed.D.
Board Options, Inc.
60 State Street, S. 700
Boston, MA 02109
Phone: 617-594-7627
E-Mail: lstybel@boardoptions.com

Board Options, Inc. provides Board of Director Self Evaluation programs by adapting National Association of Corporate Directors standards to meet specific needs. We can work with your law firm to enhance confidentiality of information.

Work about us can be found in the National Association of Corporate Directors, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, CFO Magazine, and The Financial Executive.

Contact us and we can send you our latest articles on Board Self Evaluation.

5/2005

Francesco Cantarella
Corporate Social Solutions
144 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024-4028
phone: 212-580-1569 fax: 212-875-8063
E-mail Address: fcantarella@corpsocialsol.com
Corporate Social Solutions assists firms in identifying and managing both opportunities and vulnerabilities in community and government relations, diversity issues, environmentalism and philanthropy. We work with both senior management and boards to improve the bottom line while benefiting the community and the company's marketplace. We also have the capability and experience in quickly sizing up crisis situations and resolving them, both expeditiously and strategically.

3/2000

Peter R. Downing MBA, CA
iAge Statement of Corporate Citizenship
TG INTERNATIONAL LTD.
P.O. Box 38120, 1430 Prince of Wales Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2C 1N0
E-mail address: tgil@intranet.ca
An iAge Statement of Corporate Citizenship is a unique way of managing for long-term shareholder value. An iAge Statement of Corporate Citizenship is voluntary corporate community accountability of the economic and social well-being created by a company's business fundamentals, environmental progress, community support and corporate philanthropy.

It is a reply to the business and community stakeholders' and the activists' question, "What good has your company done forthe community lately?" An iAge Statement of Corporate Citizenship raises the bar of corporate citizenship excellence. Don't leave your Corporate Community ScoreCard website without one.

TG International will work with your Corporate Citizenship team to develop the company's iAge Statement of Corporate Citizenship. Our iAge Statement of Corporate Citizenship website's
Student's Corner with its Five Term Paper Options will be of interest to business, political and socipolitical and social science students.

3/2000

Frank Settineri
Veracorp LLC
28 Polk St.
Sparta, New Jersey 07871
email: fsett1@veracorp.biz
phone: 973-729-8171; 908-499-5540 (cell)
Veracorp LLC inculcates the principles of decency throughout the entire organization with programs that engage boards, management, employees, suppliers and clients. Once engaged, these stakeholders become loyal advocates of the organization, provide it with longevity, and actively participate in its mission to succeed.

Through his programs he influenced businesses ranging from the largest pharmaceutical companies, to small testing companies, to retailers and small businesses. He recently started his company after a 30 year career in the pharmaceutical industry in which he built and grew organizations by selecting and retaining great talent and key stakeholders.

11/2007

Mark D'Anastasio
President
Development Communications Counsel
1828 L Street, NW Suite 1052
Washington, D.C. 20036
Email: mdanastasio@starpower.net
phone: 202 331-7751
Mr. D'Anastasio is involved in communications for international economic development. One of his clients is the Federal Commission for the Securities Market of the Russian Federation, the Russian analog of the U.S. SEC.

8/2001

Stephen M. Davis, PhD
E-mail Address:dga@davisglobal.com
President of Davis Global Advisors, Inc, author of Shareholder Rights Abroad (1989) and the annual Leading Corporate Governance Indicators^TM survey of major international markets.

Davis Global Advisors is the leading consulting firm specializing in global corporate governance. It also publishes Global Proxy Watch, the weekly faxed newsletter which is the only publication dedicated to timely reporting of international corporate governance developments. DGA helps institutional investors boost the value of their holdings through corporate governance strategies best shaped for each market and situation. It also helps regulators and stock exchanges review corporate governance practices to draw foreign investment and safeguard against business failures.

3/2000

International architects of governance assisting clients to design, heal, and change their governance systems and structure. The team does this by using systems engineering and process technology, governance coaching, assessment tools, and other organizational development instruments.

6/2002

Gregory F. Maassen
Dr. Gregory F. Maassen
P.O. Box 26
6660 AA Elst Gelderland
The Netherlands
Email: Gmaassen@mktaal.nl
Tel: +31 (0)488 - 431464
Fax: +31 (0)488 - 431805

Dr. Gregory F. Maassen (Dutch) specializes in Technical Assistance Projects in the field of economic law reform and corporate governance in transitional economies (former Soviet Union). He is Corporate Governance Consultant at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, a Research Consultant for Spencer Stuart European Board Practices and an Assistant Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Please visit our site for an overview of free publications and other relevant information.

3/2000

Investigative Services

Olivia Robinson
Background Intelligence, Inc.
Executive Investigations and Corporate Due Diligence
phone: 213/243-0707
e-mail: robinson@backgroundintelligence.com

Since 1982 we've provided research and investigative services to support investor and corporate decision-making.

Institutional investors:

Professional Associations

Jane Seago
Information Systems Audit and Control Association
IT Governance Institute
3701 Algonquin Road, Suite 1010
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 USA
Email: jseago@isaca.org
Phone: 847-253-1545
Fax: 847-253-1443
To achieve success in this information economy, enterprise governance and IT governance can no longer be considered separate and distinct disciplines. Effective enterprise governance focuses individual and group expertise and experience where it can be most productive... monitors and measures performance... provides assurance to critical issues. Information technology, long considered solely an enabler of an enterprise's strategy, must now be regarded as an integral part of that strategy. This web site is designed to help stakeholders achieve this critical success factor by offering information and resources showing how to efficiently and effectively deploy secure, reliable information and applied technology.

9/2000

Sarbanes-Oxley Solutions

CONFIDE Services, Inc
Michael T. Murphy
Suite 2000
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston, VA 20190
email: mmurphy@confideinc.com

Provides independent hotlines and secure website solutions for compliance with Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Reports are forwarded direct to the audit committees, with an option to copy senior management. The complaint or issue collection system should be independent of management. Here is why an outsourced solution with CONFIDE Services is the best alternative:

When considering what outsourced collection methods are best, a telephonic voice response unit (VRU) or simple third party secure website is preferable for most firms because of simplicity, security, and low cost. 6/2004

Jernberg Law Group
10 S LaSalle St, Ste 3300
Chicago, IL 60603
Ph: 312.899.8010
E-mail: djernberg@jernberglaw.com
JLG is specifically focused on providing corporations with an effective, efficient program for employee whistle blowing involving: (i) serious issues that may merit Board or senior management attention; (ii) matters allowed to be reported anonymously. Benefits of the JLG program include:

These benefits are achieved, without significantly increasing total costs, by using a structure that effectively addresses the risks and concerns of the employee whistleblower and makes the proper vetting of the issues with the employee part of the intake rather than the reaction process. Don Jernberg was formerly a senior partner at a large national law firm and has 30 years of broad litigation experience. Other members of JLG are also senior attorneys with strong backgrounds at major corporations or law firms.

6/2003