Nevada SAGE Commission

Bruce R. James is an experienced business and government leader who founded and operated more than a dozen printing and publishing companies over a career exceeding three decades. These companies included Barclays Law Publishers, which was listed by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation's 500 fastest growing companies for four consecutive years, and the Polish-American Printing Company headquartered in Warsaw, which provided newspaper printing, production and distribution services for more than 40 daily newspapers throughout Poland.

Don F. Ahern is President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Ahern Rentals, Inc., based in Las Vegas, NV. Ahern Rentals is the leading equipment rental company in the Southwest with 46 locations in 12 states. According to Rental Equipment Register in May of 2007 the company was ranked as the 11th larges equipment rental company in the U.S.

Prior to starting Consensus LLC in 2005, Barbara served as the Chairman of the Board of the Nevada Tax Commission and was Vice President of Finance for MGM Grand Resorts Development, a general contractor for MGM Mirage. She was Chairman of the Board of the Tax Commission from 1996 to 2005 and served as a Member of the Commission for 10 years before that.

Robert B. Feldman is President and CEO Nevada General Insurance Company, a Nevada domiciled property and casualty insurer currently licensed in Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona. Nevada General is current rated "A" by the A.M. Best Company and is the first full "A" rated domestic automobile insurer in Nevada history.

Robert L. Forbuss is President of Strategic Alliances, based in Las Vegas, a business and government affairs consulting organization. While teaching high school in his early career, Mr. Forbuss became an Emergency Medical Technician at Mercy Ambulance.

Randy A. Garcia is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the first Nevada-based investment management consulting firm, The Investment Counsel Company. Specializing in money manager searches and performance monitoring, measurement, and evaluation, The Investment Counsel Company has raised the standard of service for all institutional investors within the Sate of Nevada since its establishment in 1987.

David Goldwater is the president of Goldwater Capital Nevada LLC, a mortgage investment business based in Las Vegas that provides investment services to individual clients as well as private corporations.

Steve Greathouse has been involved in the Las Vegas hotel and gaming industry for more than 30 years, most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations for the Mandalay Resort Group. Prior to that he had been Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Alliance Gaming Corporation and then President of Boardwalk Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.

Steve Hill is a founder of Silver State Materials, a concrete, sand and gravel supplier in the Las Vegas area since 1987. Silver State employs more than 300 people and was recently purchased by California Portland Cement Co, for which Mr. Hill serves as Sr. Vice President.

Jan L. Jones is Senior Vice President of Communications and Government Relations for Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. In that capacity, she oversees all worldwide government affairs, corporate communications, community relations and corporate-social responsibility programs for the $9 billion corporation.

As the former CEO of the highly successful Southwest Airlines, Howard led the fledgling carrier through airline deregulation and the development and implementation of the "vision" that has guided Southwest to revered heights over the past twenty years. Southwest tripled in size and tripled in profitability during his tenure, and today is still a corporate model for organizations that put their people first in their culture.

Jerome (Jerry) Snyder is president of KeyOn Communications, a provider of fixed wireless broadband services in six western states. Mr. Snyder practiced law in Las Vegas from 1964 through 1976 and phased out of his law practice over the next two years to concentrate on interests in real estate development, banking and finance, health care, and communications.

James Thornton is a civil engineer and former president of Nevada Paving Company Inc., which was sold to Granite Construction in 1983. He was president of Nevada Tahoe Company, dba Incline Village Transit Mix, from 1968 to 1986. Mr. Thornton represented Ward 1 on the Reno City Council from 1981 to 1985 and was a member of the Nevada State Department of Transportation Board of Directors from 1989 to 2007.

Carole Vilardo is the president of the Nevada Taxpayers Association (NTA). She has been affiliated with NTA since 1986. Since joining NTA, her efforts have been directed to the fiscal issues of taxes and spending by Nevada state and local governments.