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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Say Hello to Our Friend, Spencer Brown

Spencer J. Brown & Associates is an executive leadership consulting firm helping CEOs and owners of privately held companies prepare for a successful sale, merger or acquisition.

About Spencer J. Brown.

Over the course of a successful and diverse business career spanning four decades, Spencer has served as a key leader in over two dozen financial transactions including mergers and acquisitions, Venture Capital and Private Equity transactions and Initial Public Offerings totaling over US$250 million in sectors as diverse as consumer goods marketing, semiconductor manufacturing and video production services.

Prior to forming Spencer J. Brown & Associates in 2006, Spencer served as chief executive officer of Euro RSCG DRTV, a division of the French marketing consulting conglomerate, Havas. Prior to being named CEO in 1999, Spencer served in the dual role of CFO/COO two years prior. During his tenure, Euro RSCG DRTV raised its annual billings from $14 million to over $400 million thus becoming the largest direct response television advertising agency in the world..

Before joining Euro RSCG, he served in a variety of senior corporate leadership positions in public and private companies including 800.com, Now Software, Sundance Electronics, TriQuint Semiconductor, GigaBit Logic, CR Technology, and Compact Video Systems.

Spencer is a retired Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the American Iinstitute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Early in his career, he was an Auditor at Peat Marwick Mitchell (KPMG).

He is the former Chairman of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) and a former board member of 800.com, Chemwest Engineering, Tactix and TriQuint Semiconductor. He has also served as a board advisor to Dotster and Tripwire. He received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force in 1973 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from U.C.L.A. in 1976.

He has been a guest speaker at U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Management, the University of Portland, the University of Oregon Law School of Entrepreneurship and frequently speaks to groups across the country on issues related to entrepreneurship, management and leadership.

Spencer is currently a member of the Board of Directors and President of the Portland chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, one of the largest and oldest senior executive leadership organizations in the world. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Commerce Bank of Oregon, partially-owned subsidiary of NYSE-Listed Zions Bancorp. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of Indent Studios, Intelesoft Technologies, Oregon Aesthetic Technologies and Rejuvenation. He is past Chair of OEN and is a frequent speaker at various investor conferences.

Spencer brings a significant amount of experience to projects throughout North America and Europe in the areas of:

Direct Response Television Advertising

Start-up company executive management anfd financial modeling.

Mergers and acquisitions

Venture capital and private equity fundraising.

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Nathaniel Clevenger Bio

Nathaniel “Than” Clevenger, Principal/CEO
503.449.1029 (USA), email:than@why3.com, Skype: nathaniel.clevenger

Than Clevenger is a twenty-year veteran marketing and communications strategist with significant experience in developing communications and marketing programs in the construction, commercial finance and real estate development industries. Than has held senior positions for two of the largest marketing and communications agencies in the world, Hill and Knowlton Public Affairs Worldwide Company and Fleishman Hillard. He has created, developed and launched award-winning consumer and B2B brands in global markets and has expertise in promoting construction technologies, residential and commercial development projects, and consumer goods and services.

He has served as an outsource Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)and/or strategic marketing advisor to commercial and residential real estate projects throughout the U.S. and Canada One of his projects, a $250 million commercial development, was named as one of the top ten projects in the nation in 2005. The project was constructed by one of the oldest design/build contractors in North America. He is currently serving as CMO for what will be one of the first LEED-ND communities in the world. He is also serving as the consulting CMO to the fastest concrete batch plant productions system company in the world based in Nova Scotia, Canada. During the mid-90's Than co-founded what became one of the largest real estate finance companies in the Mid-Atlantic U.S.

Relevant recent clients include Opus Development (Minneapolis), Swinteron Builders (San Francisco), Vidabode Group (Amherst, Nova Scotia), Thimble Creek Development Corporation (Oregon City, Oregon) and Housing Northwest, an affordable housing non-profit with $200 million under management.

Than formed 3 after leaving Fleishman Hillard—currently the largest public relations firm in the world—as a vice president and co-chair of one of Fleishman’s global vertical marketing teams. Prior to joining Fleishman Hillard, A seasoned manager and leader, Than served in senior staff positions with The Democratic National Committee (52nd Presidential Inaugural Committee), The Canzeri Company (the Rockefeller Family's public relations and public affairs firm) and Hill and Knowlton Public Affairs Worldwide Company (currently the second largest public relations and public affairs firm in the world) in both the D.C. and New York offices. In his early 20’s, he worked for the legendary public relations strategist, Frank Mankiewicz; former Nancy Reagan press secretary, Elaine Crispin; and Reagan advance man, Joe Canzeri. He also worked with and for Marilyn Funderburk, a former White House deputy social secretary.

Current and former clients include CEO's and senior executives in large, privately-held corporations, Fortune 500 and multinational corporations, foreign heads of state, trade association directors and senior executives at large non-profit foundations. Organizations, companies and leaders with whom Than has worked include: Sir Robert Maxwell, The Honorable Clark Clifford, Jerry Tarkanian, The White House Chief of Protocol, the last Miss U.S.S.R., the Emir and Royal Family of Kuwait, the former heads of state of Morocco, Finland, Brazil, The Republic of Turkey, North Yemen and the current head of state of Angola; as well as the CEO's of Gulfstream Aerospace, NBC, Lockheed Martin, The American Red Cross, The American Task Force for Bosnia, UNICEF, The United States Olympic Committee, Reading is Fundamental, the Recording Industry Association of America, Deloitte and Touche, Enterprise Ireland (the seed capital investment agency of the Republic of Ireland), Preston Gates and Ellis, Swinerton Builders and responDesign (an interactive video game publisher) to name a few.

He has written speeches and or correspondence for a variety of leaders including former President Bill Clinton; former President George H.W. Bush; IMF Chairman, Michel Camdessus; comedian, Bill Cosby; former District of Columbia Mayor's, Sharon Pratt Kelley and Marion Barry Jr.; various U.S. Olympians and U.S. Olympic officials, including gold medal skater, Bonnie Blair and gold medal boxer, Riddick Bowe as well as sports commentators Bob Costas and Greg Gumbel. He also served as protocol and event manager for the opening ceremonies of the Korean War Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C., and as a spokesperson for one of Washington, D.C.'s mayoral inauguration events.

Than is an advisor to several Northwest-based non-profits and was recently listed in Strathmore's Who's Who in American Business, 2004 Edition, He is a member of the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Oregon, and is a native of the Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia (formerly and historically known as Tidewater) Given the time, Than enjoys competitive sailing, painting, and military history. He is a graduate of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Sydney, a Portland native and writer, and their three children, Jack, Steele Elizabeth and Gus Henry.

For more information on Than, please visit his personal website at www.why3.com.