Jack F. Kemp has served on our board of directors since June 2002. Mr. Kemp is founder and chairman of Kemp Partners, a strategic consulting firm which seeks to provide clients with strategic counsel, relationship development, and marketing advice in helping them accomplish business and policy objectives. From January 1993 until July 2004, Mr. Kemp was co-director of Empower America, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based public policy and advocacy organization he co-founded with William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. In 1996, Mr. Kemp was the Republican Party candidate for Vice President. Prior to founding Empower America, Mr. Kemp served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1989 to 1992, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 1989. Mr. Kemp also serves as a director of Hawk Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Six Flags, Inc. and WorldSpace, Inc. Mr. Kemp holds a B.A. from Occidental College. |