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Jerry L. Hyde became the Vice Chairman, President and Secretary of Nationwide when it was organized in January 1998. Mr. Hyde has spent his career as a management consultant with several organizations. During his career Mr. Hyde has consulted to over 200 companies and has been involved in over 40 merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Hyde formed Rice Consulting in 1992 to provide consulting services to medium size public companies in the area of developing and implementing growth strategies through acquisitions. From 1984 to 1992, Mr. Hyde was a partner in the international certified public accounting firm of Ernst & Young and he became the partner in charge of consulting in corporate finance and merger and acquisition services in Ernst & Young’s Houston office. From 1978 to 1984, Mr. Hyde practiced with Baucum, Hyde & Reese, a regional accounting and consulting firm that he co-founded. In 1984 Mr. Hyde and the other partners in Baucum, Hyde & Reese merged that firm with Ernst & Young. In 1972 he joined Ernst & Ernst (now Ernst & Young) as a consultant designing cost accounting and management reporting systems for clients and was employed at that firm until he resigned to co-found Baucum, Hyde & Reese in 1978. Mr. Hyde served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. from 1968 to 1971. Mr. Hyde graduated in 1968 from Lamar University with a Bachelor Degree in Economics and from the University of Texas in Austin in 1972 with a Master of Business Administration Degree. Since 1974 Mr. Hyde has been licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas. | 