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Michele Lamond is Rupert & Company's Webmaster. She brings to the position a broad background in and web design, hosting and maintenance. Prior to developing her own web services company, Michele spent more than a decade in technology roles in the investment management business. She later shifted to marketing and communications roles in the nonprofit sector. In all these settings she developed her web design and development capabilities. She began her own comprehensive web services company in 1998, offering Southwest Florida businesses website development, Internet communication strategies and online training vehicles. After several successful training tool and website collaborations with Rupert and Company, she joined the firm as Webmaster in 2002. She is responsible for building the FlexWise™ suite of interactive online guides and training tools, for all client website development and customization and for maintaining all hosted sites. She is currently involved in creating our second generation websites and training tools. Michele Lamond's notable expertise and successful innovations include:

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• President of Washington, DC

Paul Rupert is the President of Washington, DC-based Rupert & Company. He combines forty years' general management, consulting, coaching, training and research experience with expertise in the development of flexible leadership skills and online systems. Paul started managing flexibly with his first start-up in 1972. He pioneered the development of explicitly business-based approaches and tools for creating the flexible workplace. In his previous work as Associate Director of New Ways to Work and Flexibility Practice Leader of WFD Consulting, he directed national flexibility advocacy efforts and served a broad and distinguished client list of more than a hundred companies ranging from Aetna and AOL to Wal-Mart and Xerox. Mr. Rupert speaks widely about organizational flexibility and is quoted regularly in the national media such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News, CBS News, NPR, Marketplace and Newsweek. He is a graduate of Stanford University. Paul Rupert's notable expertise and successful innovations include:

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• Principal With Rupert & Company

Stacey Gibson is a Principal with Rupert & Company. She is based near New York City. Prior to joining the firm, she spent thirty-six years at Bristol-Myers Squibb in a variety of Human Resource leadership roles (work/life, diversity, employee relations, HR policy, etc.) Stacey has mastered and draws on a deep knowledge of managing culture change within complex organizations

Steve Goldfarb is Rupert & Company's New York-based Research & Training Director. He has more than thirty years' experience in research design, administration and training for organizations and their employees. He held research and consulting roles at Citibank, Opinion Research Corporation, Foster Higgins, Towers Perrin and William M. Mercer. He began the firm Goldfarb Research in 1997, and later merged it into Rupert & Company. He has conducted a range of flexibility studies and training initiatives, and major projects have included ALCOA, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Johnson & Johnson, St. John's Queens Hospital and University Hospitals of Cleveland. His research has been featured in Compensation and Benefits Review and Across the Board and he was a major contributor to IBM's landmark study on human resources, Priorities for Competitive Advantage. He has been quoted in The New York Times, USA Today and The Chicago Tribune. Mr. Goldfarb earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. in Organizational and Industrial Psychology from Columbia University, where he also completed advanced work in evaluation research, psychometrics and statistics. Steve Goldfarb's notable expertise and successful innovations include: