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David Muir is the Chief Executive Officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Executive Vice President for the Crown Worldwide Group. Mr. Muir was appointed to CEO of EMEA in 2003 and prior to that served as the CEO of North America since 1998. He was appointed to Crown's Executive Board in 2000. Mr. Muir is in charge of Crown's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as quality management and operational excellence for the Group. In addition, he shares worldwide responsibility with other members of the Board for the strategic development and overall management of the company, including its Crown Relocations, Crowns Records Management and Crown Logistics divisions. Mr. Muir joined Crown in 1996 as Senior Vice President of the Western Region overseeing Crown's locations in the United States. He has managed the opening of new operations throughout the Americas including, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, DC, Miami, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Santiago, Chile, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Prior to joining Crown, Mr. Muir was Managing Director for Allied Pickfords Home Moving Services in the United Kingdom. He joined Allied in 1990 as Marketing Director for Europe and was responsible for opening new operations in Eastern Europe as well as integrating acquisitions into a global network. Mr. Muir's career in relocations began in 1980 while chairing the Round Table, a charitable organization based in the United Kingdom. He was responsible for leading convoys of relief supplies to victims of natural disasters throughout Europe. Mr. Muir is a member of the Employee Relocation Council (ERC) and previously held the position of Vice President of the British Association of Removers (BAR) while working in the UK. He is a regular speaker at industry related conferences and human resources seminars in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. In addition, he has been quoted in several publications and interviewed for television and radio stations worldwide. David Muir is a British national and lives in Prague, Czech Republic with his wife Audrey. They have four children.

John Mooney has been Crown's Vice President since January of 2000 and is involved in all aspects of the franchise operation. John, a former Crown Trophy franchise owner, assists new store owners throughout training and operation of their franchise. John's background includes positions at Hilliard Farber & Company in New York, The Diamond Company, LLC in Rome.

President and Chief Executive Officer of CC Industries, Inc., Chicago, Illinois (a diversified investment company); Vice President of Henry Crown and Company, Chicago, Illinois (a diversified investment company); Vice President of Dane Acquisition Corp. and General Partner of Great Dane Limited Partnership, Chicago, Illinois (semi-truck trailers and accessories manufacturer). Director of Alltel since 2004. Member of Audit and Governance Committees. Age 42.

Kevin Mahoney: Kevin is the Board Vice-Chairman. He is owner of Coldwell Banker/Crown, Realtors. Before becoming a board member is 1994, Kevin served as a city council member for nine years.

Ann Peacock is General Manager- Public Relations at Crown. Ann is the face and voice of Crown, both to the public and to the business people of Melbourne. Ann continues to raise the profile of Crown as the entertainment venue of choice and is Chairperson of the Crown Charity and Sponsorship Committee. Ann frequently is the organiser and the host of various events, be they corporate, sporting, fashion or charity fundraising dinners right through to celebrity VIP balls. Ann also dedicates much of her personal time sitting on the boards of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Million Dollar Lunch (which raises in excess of $1 million each year for the KOALA Foundation), the Shane Warne Foundation and is also a Victorian Australia Day ambassador. While being the devoted mother of her two sons aged 9 and 7, Ann is committed to balancing her professional, social and personal life.

Brent joined Crown in 2003 after receiving a degree in journalism/public relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His background is in media relations and sports information, including experience with the Charlotte Sting/Charlotte Bobcats (WNBA/NBA), the Burlington Indians (Appalachian League affiliate of the Cleveland Indians), the Northern and Central Baseball Leagues (independent) and the Orange County Recreation and Parks Department.

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David Sirota is a political journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist and bestselling author living in Denver. He is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. The New York Times has called him a "populist rabble-rouser" with a "take-no-prisoners mind-set," while the Philadelphia Daily News labeled him "a progressive powerhouse." His weekly column, which was launched by Creators Syndicate in the Fall of 2007, now appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.3 million readers. Newspapers running Sirota's column include, among others, The Denver Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Idaho Statesman, The Everett Herald, and the Idaho Falls Post Register. Sirota's writing has won praise from across the political spectrum. The liberal American Prospect said Sirota is "the kind of pundit you'd like to have on your side in a knife fight and wouldn't want to cross in a dark alley." Syndicated columnist Molly Ivins said, "Sirota is a new-generation populist who instinctively understands that the only real questions are 'Who's getting screwed?' and 'Who's doing the screwing?'" Even Barron's, the right-leaning business weekly, said, "Sirota may someday emerge as the left-wing's answer to right-wing heavy-weights Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter he has the rabble-rouser's prerequisite sharp tongue, as well as a quick eye for his opponent's tender spots." Sirota's first book, Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government And How We Take It Back, was released by Crown Publishers in 2006 and quickly became a New York Times best seller. Sirota is now working on his second book for Crown, entitled "The Uprising." The book is a tour of the populist political movement growing in response to severe economic pressure on America's middle class. The book is due out in the spring of 2008. Sirota is also a senior editor at In These Times magazine; contributes regularly to The Nation, the American Prospect and the Huffington Post; is the full-time blogger at www.credoaction.com; and publishes a newsletter at www.davidsirota.com that is e-mailed to thousands of subscribers each day. He serves as a co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 organization that provides legislative analysis to state lawmakers. He is also a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future, a non-profit research and advocacy organization. Over his career, Sirota's work has been published in, among others, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, The Baltimore Sun, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Hartford Courant, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Charlotte Observer, The Oregonian and Knight Ridder Newspapers. He has been a guest on, among others, CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, PBS's Now with David Brancaccio, and National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation. Sirota was also a twice-weekly guest on The Al Franken Show for the show's entire run. During his previous career in electoral politics, Sirota served as a senior campaign strategist to Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Montana's first Democratic governor in 16 years; a campaign adviser Connecticut's antiwar icon Ned Lamont, who defeated Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic primary; the chief spokesman for Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee; the press secretary for Vermont Congressman Bernard Sanders, the longest-serving independent in congressional history; and a contributor to the California Democratic Party's website. In 2003, Sirota became one of the first employees of the Center for American Progress, where the National Review called his work "the most aggressive, most energetic opposition research in politics." Sirota received a degree in journalism and political science from...

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Mr. Campbell earned his law degree from the University of Virginia and bachelors degree magna cum laude from Boston College. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Maine, Florida and New Hampshire, the federal district courts of those states and those in Connecticut, Vermont, and the First and Eleventh Circuits. Mr. Campbell is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Defense Counsel, is the Director of the 2005 Trial Academy and served as a faculty member at its 25th Annual Trial Academy. Mr. Campbell serves on the National Board of Directors of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is President of the Massachusetts Chapter of ABOTA. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the Defense Research Institute and continues to be an active member of the steering committee of the Products Liability Committee and the Trial Tactics Committee. He serves as a Vice Chair of the ABA's Tort and Insurance Practice Section's International Tort and Insurance Law Practice Committee and was part of a delegation that participated in a four day, legal foreign exchange to Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, China. Mr. Campbell was a member of the faculty for the ABA TIPS 2001 Trial Academy held at the National Judicial Center in Reno, Nevada and served as the Director of the 2003 Trial Academy. Mr. Campbell is also a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, the Association of Defense Trial Lawyers, and a former president of the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Campbell is the co-author of a Defense Research Institute monograph regarding the duty to warn and authored a chapter concerning the discoverability of post-accident design changes in product liability actions for DRI's Pre-Trial Handbook. As an editor and contributing author, he assisted in producing two chapters for the Defense Research Institute's 50 state compendium of defenses to product liability cases. He has lectured on products liability at numerous national seminars and before trade associations.

Jerry has been with Crown for over 14 years, specializing in international sales and distribution throughout his tenure with Crown. Previous to joining Crown, Jerry served as District Technical Support Manager for Wang Laboratories for nine years. In this position, Jerry was responsible for the technical support of computer hardware and software products within his assigned region, coordinating support for nine branch offices and directing the technical support engineering staff. Jerry earned his degree in electronics with the United States Navy.

Josh joined Crown in June 2003 after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism/public relations. His background includes public relations for Jennings & Company in Chapel Hill and The ArtsCenter, a non-profit fine arts organization in Carrboro, N.C. Josh also reported for The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's campus newspaper.

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Kellom has been with Crown since 1994, originally starting in the IQ Systems Group. He most recently held the title of product development manager and has additionally been involved in many aspects of Crown's marketing efforts. Kellom holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering and a master's degree in business administration from Indiana Institute of Technology.

Renee joined The Challenge Program in March, 2007, and will be working with schools and businesses in Cambria, Somerset, Blair, and Bedford counties. Most recently, Renee served as the Director of Corporate and Special Events for Crown American/Pasquerilla Enterprises in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Prior to working at Crown she was the Marketing/Communications Director for an insurance brokerage firm. Over the past seventeen years, her work has taken her across the globe; working for the Chinese government coordinating and designing multilingual communications programs, producing television commercials in Japan, and teaching courses focused on Marketing, Advertising, Public Speaking, Public/Media Relations and Communications Theory to Europeans in Hungary, The Czech Republic, and Croatia. Born in Michigan, Renee was educated in Western Pennsylvania and considers Pennsylvania her home. A graduate of The University of Pittsburgh, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and a Masters degree in Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, in Communications Media.

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Elvis works at Parker Machinists Shop right after graduation. That summer he drops by The Memphis Recording Service, home of the Sun label and makes a demo acetate of "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" for a cost of about $4.00. (The studio came to be known as Sun Studio though never officially named that until many years later. For simplicity this text uses the name Sun Studio.) The studio owner isn't in, so his assistant, Marion Keisker handles the session. Elvis wants to see what his voice would sound like on a record and he has vague aspirations to be a singer. He takes the acetate home, and reportedly gives it to his mother as a much-belated extra birthday present. By the fall, he is working at Precision Tool Company, and soon changes jobs again, going to work for Crown Electric Company. At Crown, he does various jobs, including driving a delivery truck. He also goes to night school and studies to be an electrician.

Peter Walker has served as a director of Crown since January 1, 2005. He became Finance Director of Crown Mortgage Management Ltd. in March 1999 and was Managing Director, United Kingdom from November 2004 to March 2006. Prior to his service with the company, he served in the Corporate Recovery Department of Ernst & Young.