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				  <span class="b">Lynn C. Fritz, Chairman</span> - Lynn Fritz brings his leadership, experience and philanthropy to contribute to humanitarian relief. As founder of Fritz Institute, a non-profit widely regarded as the global expert in humanitarian operations, Fritz provides leadership to the Institute's work building processes and performance standards from the business world for humanitarian aid organizations. Fritz has been featured on the likes of BBC, CNN International, CNBC, and Fox, for his expertise and analysis about the operations and performance of humanitarian assistance.
																<p>A visionary in the global logistics industry, Fritz was the Chairman and CEO of Fritz Companies until May 2001 when it was acquired by UPS.  Under his stewardship, Fritz Companies was transformed from a small domestic documentation company to a global organization of 10,000 employees in 120 countries. The company achieved Fortune 1000 ranking in 1997. His enduring contribution was to redefine a fragmented and limited services industry.</p>
																<p>A native of San Francisco, Fritz serves on the United States Commission to Help Enhance the Livelihood of People (HELP Commission) and is a member of the World Economic Forum's Disaster Response Network. Fritz also serves on the Boards of Directors Georgetown University, San Francisco's Exploratorium and the University of California, Davis' Department of Viticulture and Enology.</p>
																<p>Fritz received his B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Lincoln University School of Law. In recognition of his outstanding leadership and community service, he was honored with a Doctor of Laws degree by Pepperdine University in 1995 and a Doctor of Laws degree from Drexel University in 2004.</p>
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                  <td align="left" valign="top" class="fs11 pt40 pr20 tc03"><span class="b">Anisya Thomas Fritz</span> - Anisya Thomas Fritz is a co-founder of Fritz Institute and served as its Managing Director from its inception in 2001 until July 2007. During her tenure, Fritz Institute developed the award-winning Humanitarian Logistics Software (HLS) and its successor HELIOS; launched the sector-wide Certification in Humanitarian Logistics (CHL); and spearheaded the creation of the New Partnership for African Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (NEPARC). As part of her duties, Dr. Thomas led Fritz Institute's beneficiary-focused research and initiated collaborations with leading universities worldwide.<br>
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					A respected scholar, Dr. Thomas is the author of numerous articles on the global system of humanitarian relief, competitive strategy and international entrepreneurship. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs and the Journal of International Business Studies.<br>
					<br>Previously, Dr. Thomas was an associate professor of strategic management and international business at the Ryder College of Business Administration at Florida International University and a visiting professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. She has a B.A. from Loyola College in Maryland and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Management from Virginia Tech.<br></td>
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				  <span class="b">Mitsuko Mizushima, Chief Logistics Officer</span> - Mitsuko &quot;Mich&quot; Mizushima has lead global teams and a multitude of projects in logistics and supply chain management for over 20 years. This expertise expands Fritz Institute's capability to provide best practices from private sector logistics to support the operations of its partners in the humanitarian relief community. She has lead the creation of both traditional and online supply chain organizations, processes and services.<br>
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																Best known for her leadership roles at global transportation and shipping company APL, Mizushima headed APL Business Logistics Services (BLS), a process-driven organization that uses proven, state-of-the art technology to deliver supply chain solutions to global clients. She recently served as CEO of an Internet start-up company that provides supply chain management services over the web. Her B.A. is from University of Hawaii and MBA from Pepperdine University.</td>
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                  <td align="left" valign="top" class="fs11 pt40 pr20 tc03"><img src="Images/MgmntTeam/KathyMeyer.gif" width="67" height="109" align="left" style="padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:5px;"> <b>Kathleen A. Meyer, Vice President, External Relations</b> - <st1:PersonName>Kathy Meyer</st1:PersonName>&rsquo;s 25 years experience in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors makes her uniquely qualified to lead Fritz Institute&rsquo;s fundraising, marketing and corporate partnership activities, helping to increase our capacity to improve the delivery of humanitarian aid throughout the world.&nbsp; Kathy has served in key roles at several nonprofit organizations including a decade long tenure as Executive Director of The Business Enterprise Trust, as well as Executive Director of <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Academy</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Friends</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and Deputy Director of Equal Rights Advocates. She has also provided strategic planning consulting services to several family foundations and nonprofit start-ups and has volunteered throughout her career, most recently with Upwardly Global, a nonprofit that assists highly skilled immigrants and asylees find meaningful work in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> <br>
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																Previously, Kathy held senior management positions in strategic planning and marketing at Crocker Bank, Bank of America and Zellerbach Paper Company. She has an MBA from <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Stanford</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</td>
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                  	<img src="images/MgmntTeam/jacks.gif" width="80" height="109" align="left" style="padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:5px;"><span class="b">Paul Jacks, Director, BayPrep</span> - Paul Jacks comes to the Fritz Institute after retiring from 31 years of service to the state of California. Most recently, Mr. Jacks served for eight years as an appointed Deputy Director in the Governor�s Office of Emergency Services (OES) under Governors Davis and Schwarzenegger. As a Deputy Director, Mr. Jacks had, at various times, overall executive management responsibility for the office�s preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation operations.
																<p>Mr. Jacks possesses extensive disaster-related experience having served as a state Public Assistance Officer, Governor�s Authorized Representative, or State Coordinating Officer for the state of California for more than 30 federally-declared disasters including the Whittier Narrows Earthquake in 1987, the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989, the Cape Mendocino and Landers Big Bear Earthquakes in 1992, the Northridge Earthquake in 1994, and the San Simeon Earthquake in 2003.</p>
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																In addition to working for OES for almost 20 years, Mr. Jacks held other supervisory and management positions in the state�s Employment Development Department (EDD) and the California Conservation Corps (CCC). He also worked as a projects officer for the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the Kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa and as a project supervisor for Operation Crossroads Africa in the Republic of Liberia. In 2003, Mr. Jacks received the California Emergency Services Association President�s Award for outstanding contributions to emergency management in California.</p>
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														<img src="Images/MgmntTeam/L_Johnson.jpg" width="92" height="109" align="left" style="padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:5px;"><span class="b">Laurie A. Johnson, Corporate Sector Liaison, BayPrep</span>- With over 17 years of professional experience in risk anagement research and consulting, Laurie Johnson has written extensively about the economics of catastrophes, disaster recovery, and reconstruction for various clients including the U.S. and California geologic surveys, FEMA, HUD, the National Science Foundation, the State of California, Southern California Earthquake Center, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium. Recently, Ms. Johnson developed a unified recovery and rebuilding plan for the City of New Orleans following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. This plan was accepted by the Louisiana Recovery Authority in June 2007 and now allows the city to access state and federal recovery funds.<br>
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														A graduate of Texas A&M University with a Master of Urban Planning and a Bachelor of Science in geophysics, Ms. Johnson is also an International Collaborative Researcher and Doctoral Student at the Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University. She is on the Board of Directors of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the American Planning Association.</p -->
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                  <td align="left" valign="top" class="fs11 pt40 pr20 tc03"><img src="Images/MgmntTeam/RichEisner.jpg" width="96" height="109" align="left" style="padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:5px;"><span class="b">Rich Eisner, Government Liaison, BayPrep</span> - Richard Eisner joins Fritz Institute's BayPrep Initiative after 23 years as Coastal Regional Administrator for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), where he was responsible for the State's responses to disasters in the San Francisco Bay Region and north coast counties, and also served as Manager for the California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN), tsunami and Earthquake Programs. Prior to that appointment he served as the founding Director of the Bay Area Regional Earthquake Preparedness Project (BAREPP), providing planning and technical assistance to promote and support earthquake preparedness and hazard mitigation by local governments and businesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Region.<br>
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