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Richard Kiphart received his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1963 and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1965. He joined William Blair & Company in 1965, served in the U.S. Navy as an Officer aboard a minesweeper during the Vietnam War, and then rejoined William Blair. Mr. Kiphart joined the Institutional Sales Department in 1969. In 1972 he became a General Partner of the firm and was promoted to head of Equity Trading, where he served from 1972 to 1980. He joined the Corporate Finance in 1980, and was made head of that department in January 1995. In addition he served as Chairman of Concord EFS, Inc, a NYSE company in the credit card processing industry, which merged with First Data Corporation in 2004. He is President of the Board and CEO of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and was Chairman of Merit Music School, which provides free music lessons to over 4,000 inner city children. He also is on the board and is Vice Chairman of the Erikson Institute, a degree granting graduate school and research school specializing in pre-school education and DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa). He is on the board of First Data Corporation and NatureVision Inc and is Chairman of both Electric City Corporation and Saflink Corporation. His wife, Susan, served on the staff of Kenilworth Union Church as Head of Children’s Ministries. | 