Ark Advisory Board Members
Harold E. Jordan
Harold Jordan is President of Madras Packaging LLC and President and Chief Executive Officer of Plastic Blow Molding Company, the largest minority-owned plastic injection molder in the United States. Mr. Jordan is also President and Chief Executive Officer of World Computer Systems, Inc., a position he has held since 1990 in which he is responsible for overall technical and financial direction for the company in its marketing operations and planning functions. Harold Jordan also serves as President of Madras Enterprises, a holding company including interests in freight transportation and restaurants.

Mr. Jordan also continues in his role as a founding Partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Jordan & Keys, established in 1987. The firm's primary emphasis has been a civil litigation practice encompassing medical malpractice, insurance defense, government contracts and general business law. The firm's principal clients include Howard University Hospital, State Farm Insurance Companies, Adolph Coors Company, and William C. Smith Company. Prior to founding Jordan & Keys, Harold Jordan was a
Partner with the law firm of Davenport & Seay, engaged in business and medical malpractice litigation and government contract law.

Mr. Jordan currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lawrence University and a member of the University of Wisconsin Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Law School Board of Visitors.

Mr. Jordan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lawrence University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Frederick B. Whittemore
Frederick B. Whittemore is an Advisory Director of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, a position he has held since 1989. Mr. Whittemore became a partner in Morgan Stanley in 1967 and a Managing Director
in 1970. He has been associated with Morgan Stanley since 1958. Mr. Whittemore's career at Morgan Stanley has encompassed a variety of areas including corporate finance, capital markets, and mergers and
acquisitions.

During his career at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Whittemore served as a financial advisor to a variety of corporations, including British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, AT&T, Southern Company, Dome
Petroleum, Key Pharmaceutical, Equitable Life Primerica, General Motors and Transamerica. He has also acted as a financial advisor to the governments of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden,
Belgium and New Zealand, and to the European Economic Community. Mr. Whittemore served as a Governor of the America Stock Exchange from 1977 to 1984 (and as its Vice Chairman from 1982 to 1984), President of the Bond Club of New York (1981), and International President of the Pacific Basin Economic Council (1984). Mr. Whittemore was Chairman of the United States National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, a position he has held since 1986. He is also a Director of Southern Pacific Petroleum and a former Director of Dome Petroleum, Key Pharmaceutical Corporation and American Australian Association.

Among his many civic activities, Mr. Whittemore is a former Chairman of the Board of the Amos Tuck School of Business Admnistration and a member of the Board of Directors of Buckley School, Kimball Union Academy, Whittemore School of Business Administration (University of New Hampshire) and Aspen Institute. 

Mr. Whittemore earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his M.B.A. from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. He served in the United States Navy from 1954 to 1957.

Donald S. Perkins
Donald S. Perkins is the former Chairman of Jewel Corn allies, Inc. . p Starting as a trainee with the then Jewel Tea Company in 1953, he was elected Vice President in 1960, Executive Vice President three years
later, President in 1965 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1970. He retired from Jewel Companies, Inc. in 1983.

Mr. Perkins currently serves as a Director of the Aon Corporation, Cummins Engine Company, LaSalle Hotel Properties, LaSalle Street Fund, LaSalle U.S. Realty Income and Growth Fund Inc., Lucent
Technologies, Nanophase Technologies Corporation, Neodesic Corporation, Parson Group L.L.C., The Putnam Funds, Ryerson Tull, Inc., and Springs Industries, Inc.

He is an Honorary Trustee of the Bookings Institution, trustee and Vice Chairman of Northwestern University, Honorary Chairman of the Illinois Coalition and Protector of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Continuity Trust.

He is also a member of the Business Council, the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, a Director of the Golden Apple Foundation, Leadership for Quality Education and a member of the Spencer Stuart Advisory Board.

Mr. Perkins graduated from Yale University and the Harvard Business School. He served in the U.S. Merchant Marine in the n-tid-1940's and the Air Force in the early 1950's.


Ark Analytical and Administrative Staff
Ira Santoso, Associate
Ira has been with Ark since February 1998. She began her career as an accountant at PT Sungai Budi, a diversified Indonesian conglomerate. She then spent over two years as a senior auditor at Arthur Andersen's Jakarta office where she performed audits on companies in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, construction, communications and media, hospitality services and retail. Prior to joining Ark, Ira was a business consultant at Glen Ingram & Co. in Chicago where she provided merger and acquisition analysis on corporate restructuring assignments. She earned her B.A. in Accounting from Trisakti University in Indonesia and M.B.A. in Finance from Loyola University in Chicago.

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