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Jane Meagher, MIRM, CSP, is President of Success Strategies. Success Strategies is the nation's leading design studio strategy company, analyzing all aspects of design studio operations to increase profits, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce costly mistakes. Jane's company creates cutting-edge design studios of all sizes, provides comprehensive procedures manuals, and offers the industry's most complete training program for Sales and Design Studio staff. Success Strategies has clients in over 30 states and Canada, including leading builders in many of the nation's top housing markets. Jane works with builders ranging in size from national Top 10 Builders to regional market leaders, to smaller, local builders, as well as other industry-related organizations, such as Moen, Inc., Shaw Industries, Kohler Inc. and Hanson Brick North America. Jane has over 20 years experience as a professional in new home marketing and sales among a wide variety of applications. Her background includes such varied positions as Senior Market Analyst for the prestigious market research firm, the William E. Becker Organization, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for the national, award-winning merchandising firm The Childs/Dreyfus Group; Rookie of the Year as a Salesperson with K. Hovnanian Companies; and Publisher of The New Homes Guide. Jane also functioned as an outsourced Sales and Marketing Consultant for many builders, generating national award winning communities and marketing programs. Jane is a sought-after lecturer and has been a featured speaker at NAHB's International Builder Show for over 10 years, and speaks at many major industry events, including the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, the Southeast Builders Conference, the Midwest Builders Conference, the Atlantic Builders Conference, Builder Magazine's Big Builder Conference, the National Kitchen and Bath Associations' KBIS Conference, NAHB's Builder 20 Club, and others. She currently sits on the NAHB Design Committee, the NAHB Sales and Marketing Committee and the NAHB Senior Housing Council. Ms. Meagher previously held a seat on the New Jersey Senior Housing Council Board of Directors and she is a past Chairperson for the New Jersey Builders' Association's Sales and Marketing Committee. Jane has been published and/or quoted in many leading housing industry publications, including the following: Builder Magazine, Professional Builder Magazine, NAHB's Nation's Building News, NAHB's Sales and Marketing Ideas, NAHB's Building Women Magazine, NAHB's Senior Housing News, NAHB's Design Lines, Big Builder Magazine, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, the National Kitchen and Bath Association's KBIS magazine, Options Magazine, 55+ Lifestyles, TecHomeBuilder, The Builder Design Center Magazine, and others. Jane holds both the MIRM and CSP designations from the NAHB, and has enjoyed teaching portions of both courses. Jane has recently been selected as one of 50+Builder Magazine's Top 50 Executives in Seniors Housing for 2006. Due to her expertise, Ms. Meagher has been invited to judge a variety of sales and marketing competitions from Denver to the East Coast. She also holds a license to practice real estate in New Jersey.

Shazia Chaudhri deWit is an associate in the Environmental/Toxic Tort Litigation department. She assists as National Counsel for Fisher Scientific International, Kohler Company, 84 Lumber Company, Thermo Electric Company, and all Borg Warner non-automotive divisions. She is responsible for coordinating a national defense for asbestos related matters pending throughout the country. She also handles toxic tort matters in both New Jersey and New York. Prior to joining the firm, Shazia worked for two years at a small firm in Brooklyn, NY, concentrating in estate administration and civil litigation.

- Biff Armstrong is a graduate of Central Preston High School in Kingwood, WV. He graduated from Fairmont State College in 1986 earning a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with an emphasis in information technology. - Biff worked as programmer for Sterling Faucet Company, a subsidiary of The Kohler Corporation. In 1990, he accepted the position of Assistant Production Manager of Medical Security Card, Inc. After six months, he was promoted to Manager of Information Systems. Six years later, Biff accepted a position with EG&G, a service provider for the Federal Energy Technology Center in Morgantown, WV. While at EG&G, he served as Team Leader for the Management Application Systems Team, completed several programming projects, and shared responsibility for over 800 workstations. - In 1999, he was asked to join Mountaineer Networking, L.L.C. as Senior Consultant. With over 15 years of experience in manufacturing environments and service organizations, Biff provides a skill and expertise as an IT Consultant second to none. Copyright 2002 Mountaineer Networking, LLC. All Rights Reserved.