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Mr. Austin has been a Partner in Swenson Advisors, LLP, an accounting and consulting firm, since May 1998. Prior to joining Swenson Advisors, Mr. Austin accumulated over 22 years of experience as an audit partner with Price Waterhouse LLP and with McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, serving both public and private companies. While at Price Waterhouse, Mr. Austin worked in the national office in New York, where he addressed complex accounting and reporting issues for publicly traded companies and worked with various members of the FASB and EITF staffs. Mr. Austin is licensed as a CPA in California and Georgia. He serves as a board member or advisory board member for various not-for-profit foundations, associations and public service organizations in the United States and serves as the Global Chairman of the Executive Committee of Integra International, an international federation of accounting firms. In 2004, Mr. Austin published a book on business ethics entitled, Rise of the New Ethics Class and also served at the request of the Mayor of San Diego on the city’s Pension Reform Committee. | 