The Kline Hawkes Advisory Committee is a diverse and carefully matched amalgam of investment professionals and industry specialists. The Advisory Committee includes:  Mr. Alan J. Higginson, a private investor, consultant and former President of Atrieva, the leading provider of on-line data backup and retrieval technology; Mr. Ron Johnson, President & Founder of Ronald S. Johnson Associates, Inc., an executive search firm; Mr. John Norton a private investor and former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; Duncan Thomas, CEO, Advanced Education Corp., an online education company and EVP, Exult, Inc., a human resource outsourcing company; Mr. James Valentine, Chairman, CEO & Founder of Valentine & Company and Founder and former Chairman/CEO of the Wireless Project Development Corporation. Besides its Advisory Committee, Kline Hawkes is complimented by its distinguished Board of Directors which includes Tom S. Volpe.