TECHNOLOGY
WILLIAM “BILL”
RAYMOND COLLOPY JR.
Vice President, Southern California
Site Operations, Boeing Co.’s
Integrated Defense Systems;
Chairman, Sea Launch Co.
Born in Albuquerque, N.M., July 18, 1949
Lives in Newport Beach (Newport Bay)
Heading up Southern California comeback for Boeing.
Defense boom spur-ring major push in OC, particularly for Navy, Army programs in Anaheim, Huntington Beach. Military satellite business about to get liftoff after Air Force in March ended 20-month Boeing ban over trade secrets gleaned from Lockheed Martin. Air Force could split two-dozen satellite launches between Lockheed, Boeing. Launches could bring more than $100 million each.
Commercial Launch and Satellite Systems unit, which Collopy headed, closed two years ago amid corporate, telecom downturn. Heads Sea Launch (40% owned by Boeing), which has fared better in past year.
Long Beach-based Sea Launch lifted three satellites last year for DirecTV, others. Expects to launch five more by year’s end.
Collopy oversees 12,230 OC workers in Anaheim, Cypress, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Irvine. Boeing third largest employer here after Disney, UCI. Added more than 700 OC workers in 2004.
Bulk of hires working in Anaheim, where Boeing makes undersea vessels for Navy, oil companies. Others added at Huntington Beach, where work on Future Combat System,a super network for Army,is done.
Directed Boeing’s state, local government relations team, urged reform of workers’ compensation. Voicing support for Los Angeles Air Force Base, its missile center amid this year’s base closures round.
Active member of the California Business Roundtable. Serves on California Chamber of Commerce board.
Reports to former OC exec James Albaugh, who moved to St. Louis in 2002 to head Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.
Previously was financial chief for Boeing Space and Communications group, responsible for M & A.; Led team that bought Hughes Space and Communications in 2000 as part of satellite push.
From 1988 to 1998, was vice president, controller at Boeing North American Space Systems, former defense business of Rockwell International bought by Boeing in 1996.
Led financial, procurement activities for division, which included space shuttle, GPS, missile defense, advanced space efforts. Was the first business director of space shuttle program.
Got start in 1973 as financial analyst at Rockwell’s Autonetics division in Anaheim. Held various management posts in Anaheim, Dallas. In 1980, assigned to Space Systems. Also was director of investment analysis for corporate offices in El Segundo.
Earned bachelor’s in business from USC in 1972, business master’s from USC year later.
Wife Mary Rose, two children. Son Bill, 26, graduate of UC Santa Barbara, manager at Worldwide Golf in Santa Ana. Daughter Amanda, 23, graduate of USC business school, in first year of law at Chapman University.
Hobbies include golfing, cycling, collecting, restoring antique motorcycles with son. Has two old British Triumphs, a Norton Commando. Bought first motorbike in London at age 19, had shipped here.
Member, Orange County Performing Arts Center board. Presented $2 million gift for center’s expansion on Boeing’s behalf. Mentors college graduates interested in aerospace.
,Sherri Cruz
DWIGHT WILLIAM DECKER
Chairman, CEO
Conexant Systems Inc.
Born in Brandon, Manitoba, March 18, 1950
Lives in Newport Beach (Back Bay)
Back running,and trying to right,Conexant.
Took reins in November after nine months as chairman. Planned to step back after buying New Jersey’s Globespan-Virata, headed by former Conexant prot & #233;g & #233; Armando Geday, and moving company HQ to New Jersey.
Pulled back in after two quarters of losses, botched integration. Company returned to Newport. Says he’s “really energized” to be back at helm. Looking to chips for satellite TV boxes, DSL, wireless networking to revive sales.
Says to regain investor confidence, Conexant has to “show measurable, steady progress each and every quarter.” Hopes to end losses, break even by year’s end.
Part of cost cutting includes outsourcing with December buy of Paxonet, chip developer with India operation.
Decker’s return is latest in long-running series of changes for Conexant, dating back to 1999 spinoff from Rockwell, which he led. Starting in 2002, set out on major reworking of company, selling off businesses, spinning off Mindspeed Technologies.
Still waiting on public debut of Newport’s Jazz Semiconductor, Conexant’s former chip plant. Conexant still owns 38% of Jazz, is big customer.
Contract extended through 2006. Involved in executive search for replacement.
Headed business when it was chip arm of Rockwell. Almost fired from Rockwell decade ago for insisting on shift away from making custom chips to producing modem chips, years before Internet entered mainstream.
Professorial, fiercely competitive, demanding.
Big donor, particularly to UCI. Key mover behind tech group Octane. Chair, UC Irvine Chief Executive Roundtable, recruited 20-plus members. Still involved but community endeavors on backburner for now. In January, handed over chairmanship of San Jose-based Fabless Semiconductor Association to Qualcomm’s Sanjay Jha. Now vice chairman of trade group.
Dabbled in real estate: recently sold headquarters buildings for about $110 million, leased back. Before sale, Conexant had complex arrangement where it leased buildings from Deutsche Bank, gained appreciation, tax breaks, had option to buy, sell.
Long way from rural Canadian upbringing. Bachelor’s in physics, math from Montreal’s McGill University, doctorate in applied math from Caltech.
Was a math prof at North Carolina State, Raleigh, 1978 to 1984. Took sabbatical with modem maker TeleBit in Silicon Valley, fell in love with corporate life. Still visits family in Canada, but prefers weather in OC.
Wife Silla, 3-year-old son. Enjoys spending time with family.
,Andrew Simons
HARSHAD K. “H.K.” DESAI
Chairman, CEO, President
QLogic Corp.
Born in Abrama, Gujarat, India,
March 13, 1946
Lives in Laguna Beach
Mr. SAN man.
Heads maker of chips, gear for storage area networks used by big companies to manage, access data. Earlier this year, upped QLogic’s profit outlook, thanks to booming data storage market. Company makes controllers, switches for storage networks. Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Hitachi are buyers.
Competes with Brocade, former parent Emulex. Eyeing smaller businesses as untapped market.
Desai a regular on stock conference, trade show circuit. Going on 11th year as QLogic chief. Considers himself more engineer than executive.
Hired in 1995 as interim CEO. Left months later to become VP at Western Digital. Lured back to QLogic soon after with abrupt exit of then-CEO Mel Gable. Board said to have come around to Desai’s way of thinking. Post made permanent in 1996.
Side project: spent past two years trying to right Irvine-based Lantronix, where he’s chairman. Company, which restated 2002 results, not out of woods. Still losing money, hopes to break even by June.
Earned master’s in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. Was engineering manager at Unisys in Mission Viejo for 10 years before joining QLogic in 1990 as engineering director. Earlier stints at NCR, Sperry Univac.
Pensive, calculating. Said to be aggressive in meetings. Shrewd questioner, deft businessman.
Has a lighter side,said to crack up everyone in room.
Company split off from Emulex in 1994. When asked about competing with Emulex, told New York Times, “In my culture, we are not allowed to say bad things about our parents.”
Two years ago, QLogic sued Emulex over patents Emulex acquired in 2003 buy of Vixel. Companies settled last year.
Doesn’t like reading news or following current events. Once said could see himself as a politician.
On top of corporate governance rules. Some call him an expert. Named 2002 Director of the Year by Forum for Corporate Directors. Member, UCI Chief Executive Roundtable. Charter member, Southern California chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs.
Wife Anjanna, two grown children. Used to like skiing, tennis, swears by golf now. Says he doesn’t travel to native India much.
,Andrew Simons
PAUL FRANCIS FOLINO
Chairman, CEO
Emulex Corp.
Born in Seattle, Jan. 23, 1945
Lives in Coto de Caza
Longtime tech exec wading further into political pool. Now up to waist.
Elected vice chair of moderate GOP group New Majority in March, set to take over as chairman in July. Replaces fellow OC 50er Larry Higby of Apria.
In upper ranks of those with close ties to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Serves on the governor’s job-creation commission, big financial backer, fund-raiser. Hosted governor, Maria at Coto de Caza home in 2003, VIP at state of state speeches.
Seeing business grow. Emulex, which makes gear for linking computers on storage networks, grew sales 18% to $364 million last year. Recently reported higher than expected sales, profit for December quarter.
A year ago, moved company to bigger, custom Costa Mesa campus. Adding 15 to 20 workers per quarter. Counts 295 OC workers, 500-plus overall.
Has led Emulex’s growth from quiet maker of printer networking cards to leading maker of fibre channel adapters for storage networks (along with QLogic, which Folino spun off in early 1990s).
One of OC’s top philanthropists, arts patrons. Heavily involved in Performing Arts Center, stepping down as chairman in July. Led South Coast Rep growth. Vice chairman of Chapman University’s board, heads fund raising for Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
Been around corporate block. In 1980s, left post at computer distributor Eczel after mismanagement by James Goldsmith,corporate raider who nearly took over Goodyear. Brought on at Emulex in 1992. Oversaw shakeup after his arrival.
Born into modest Seattle home, lived in public housing. Neither parent finished high school. Put himself through graduate school by working at Boeing.
Graduated cum laude with bachelor’s from Central Washington State University. Received master’s in business from Seattle University. Career stops at Xerox, Thomas-Conrad.
Advisory board member of JatoTech Ventures, an Austin, Texas, venture firm. Director, Project Tomorrow, Mind Institute. Awarded Outstanding Patron by Arts Orange County in 2003.
Likes golf. Wife Daranne, daughter Courtney, 17.
,Andrew Simons
WAYNE RYO INOUYE
CEO, President
Gateway Inc.
Born in Yuba City, Aug. 25, 1952
Lives in Shady Canyon
Pulled off epic corporate coup story. Current chapter,a Gateway turnaround,remains unwritten.
Tapped to revive cheap PC seller eMachines in 2001. Mission accomplished two years later. Led to 2004 buy of eMachines by Gateway.
In twist, Inouye ended up running Gateway, installing handpicked team, moved company from San Diego suburb
of Poway to Irvine, bringing another
Fortune 500 company to OC. Business Journal’s 2004 businessperson of the
year.
Challenge now to work magic again by righting money-losing Gateway. Closed stores, laid off thousands. Some encouraging signs, including portable PC sales. Jury still out on Gateway revival amid competition from Dell, China’s Lenovo.
Among challenges: blending scrappy eMachines style with informal yet big-company way of Gateway.
Gone to lengths to make move to OC easier on San Diegans, who’ve had to move or commute. Runs shuttle from Spectrum HQ to train station. Others car pool on Gateway’s dime.
Name pronounced “in-OH-wee,” as in U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye. Many, including own executives, say “IN-oh-way.” Doesn’t bother correcting them.
Redeploying strategy used at eMachines,selling hard through CompUSA, former employer Best Buy.
Retail wiz. Starting in 1986, spent 15 years selling computers, consumer electronics at Good Guys, Best Buy, where he was senior marketing VP. Credited with saving Best Buy from big loss by pushing for less holiday PCs in 1996 with new generation due early the next year.
Studied biology at Berkeley in early 1970s. Dropped out to join rock band after being inspired by Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Taught himself blues guitar in seventh grade. After band broke up, sold vintage guitars from his car, worked at music stores. Hawked guitars to Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Beach Boys. Still loves to play “Crossroads” on guitar.
Installed lobby guitar display at Gateway,one says Gateway, other eMachines.
Loves routine: drinks morning coffee in same spot at home every day, cleans golf clubs after each stroke. Daughter calls him “Wayne Man,” after “Rain Man.”
Last year, put finishing touches on custom home in Irvine’s posh Shady Canyon golf community.
But he says “I rarely go golfing anymore” with work at Gateway.
Second of four kids. Japanese-American parents interned during World War II. Later started farm where Inouye worked in fields at age 7. Family grew peaches, tomatoes, sugar beets, watermelon, alfalfa.
Speed freak: drives Ferrari Maranello, has owned BMW, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz sports cars, including rare Mercedes AMG Hammer.
Wife of 25 years Shannon. Grown daughter, son.
,Andrew Simons
MATTHEW ERIC MASSENGILL
Chairman, CEO
Western Digital Corp.
Born in Placentia, April 12, 1961
Lives in Laguna Niguel
One of OC’s younger CEOs, running one of county’s oldest tech companies.
On a roll at that: 2004 sales up 12% to $3 billion. Reported better than expected profits, revenue for quarter ended April 1. Company enjoying surge as rivals slump.
Overseeing expansion of disk drive maker after leading turnaround in past few years. Led company’s re-entry into market for laptop drives, which Western Digital exited in 1997 amid competition from IBM, Toshiba, which made drives for their own portable computers.
Looking to land more drives in video recorders, digital music players, other consumer electronics. Playing catchup to Seagate in gadgets.
Company is No. 3 in drives, after Seagate, Maxtor. Former WD chief Roger Johnson, who died in February, called drive business “industrial philanthropy” for notoriously slim profits, booms and busts.
Massengill, longtime engineer who took charge in 2000, has realist tack: drives are commodities. Pushed lean manufacturing in Southeast Asia, spends less on R & D; than rivals. “Not a high-tech business,” he recently told Wall Street Journal.
Pushing streamlined brand name: “WD.”
Company man. Spent past 19 years at Western Digital. Began career as a product engineer. Held various engineering, marketing positions.
Named vice president, marketing for personal storage division in 1994. Three years later, was named senior vice president, general manager of now-defunct enterprise storage group. In 1999, appointed executive vice president, worldwide operations. Four months later became chief operating officer.
Took over in 2000 from longtime chief Charles Haggerty. Added chairman’s title in 2001.
Buddy team: gives a lot of credit to COO Arif Shakeel.
Business style described as gentlemanly. Even-tempered, personable. Bit of a card, known for making people laugh.
Fine in casual attire. Wore Hawaiian shirt on first day as chief executive. Left Western Digital briefly in 1990 to run a ranch in Oregon.
Director of Walnut’s ViewSonic, charity Think Together. Chairman, TechNet OC chapter. Member, UCI Chief Executive Roundtable.
Engineering degree from Purdue University in 1983, received Purdue’s Outstanding Engineering Alumni award in 1988. Wife Bernice.
,Andrew Simons
HENRY A. SAMUELI
Chairman, Chief Technical Officer
Broadcom Corp.
Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1954
Lives in Corona del Mar
SCOTT ALAN McGREGOR
CEO, President
Broadcom Corp.
Born in St. Louis, Oct. 10, 1956
Lives in Laguna Beach
Samueli, engineering academic turned entrepreneur, remaining founder at OC’s flagship tech company. New partner in McGregor, tech industry vet enlisted to run Broadcom all grown up.
McGregor tapped late last year to be third CEO in company’s 14-year history. Replaced interim chief, chip veteran (and 2004 OC 50er) Alan “Lanny” Ross, who himself replaced founder Henry “Nick” Nich-olas.
Nicholas, who owns about 26.4 million shares, has 32% voting stake, left in 2003 amid changes at company, family issues.
McGregor on job since Jan. 1. One requirement, according to Sameuli, was “that I got along with him.” Fits somewhere between brash Nicholas, polished Ross, blending “best qualities of both,” Samueli says.
New boss overseeing further expansion into chips for wireless networks, mobile phones. Wrestling with tricky issue of expensing stock options, key compensation tool for Broadcom.
McGregor took what he calls pay cut with $600,000 salary, offset by grant of 200,000 shares, 2 million options.
In a sign of growing corporate maturity, recently OK’d plan to buy back $250 million in Broadcom shares to help offset impact of options.
McGregor, former chief of Philips Semiconductors, chip arm of Europe’s Royal Philips Electronics. Oversaw more than 30,000 workers, $6 billion in yearly sales.
Well-rounded career. Lengthy background in software, stints with Santa Cruz Operation, Microsoft, Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. Also worked at Digital Equipment, Scientific-Atlanta.
Called “a god” by Nicholas, who interviewed him, other candidates. Under McGregor, competition from Philips became “pain in the ass,” Nicholas told Forbes.
Bespectacled, 6 feet 2 inches tall. Pensive, thoughtful, calculating. Likes being outdoors, spending time with wife, two kids. Called professional, likeable.
Samueli oversees research, called engineering genius. Turned down top job because he says research would have suffered. Owns 26.7 million shares, 32% voting stake, hair more than Nicholas.
Former lab guy,was Nicholas’ professor at UCLA. Worked at PairGain with Nicholas in 1980s, started Broadcom in 1991. Met Nicholas at TRW in 1980s.
Bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate in electrical engineering from UCLA.
With wife Susan, Samueli is one of county’s top philanthropists. Made more than $150 million in charitable gifts in past decade. Given $30 million to UCLA, nearly that to UCI. Performing Arts Center, Ocean Institute, Temple Beth El, Reform Synagogue, University Synagogue also beneficiaries.
Parents, Aaron, Sala, were Holocaust survivors from Poland. Met after war. Came to America in the 1950s, moved to California. Family ran liquor store on Whittier Boulevard, where Samueli worked as teen.
Says he learned frugality from parents. Billionaire says he still compares prices while shopping.
Earlier this year, Samuelis bought Mighty Ducks of Anaheim hockey team from Walt Disney Co. for reported $75 million. Looking to overhaul team management. Says he’d be open to a name change. Owns company that runs Arrowhead Pond. Could bring NBA to Pond.
In April, presented AeA lifetime achievement award to outgoing UCI Chancellor Ralph Cicerone.
Three children. Described as understated, moderate in all aspects of life. Enjoys skiing, hiking, basketball.
,Andrew Simons
GREGORY MARK
EMILE SPIERKEL
CEO (as of June 1)
Ingram Micro Inc.
Born in Montreal, Jan. 27, 1957
Lives in Laguna Hills
Company insider set to take over running OC’s largest company by yearly sales.
Joined tech products distributor Ingram in 1997 as senior vice president, president, Ingram Micro Asia-Pacific. Was vice president, president of Ingram Micro Europe. Most recently was worldwide president, responsible for global divisions with focus on company’s Europe, Asia-Pacific businesses.
Led Ingram’s $530 million buy last year of Tech Pacific, largest acquisition in company history. Also key in 1997’s buy of Singapore’s Electronic Resources.
Operations man: oversaw Europe consolidation, including operations in Scandanavia, integration of major acquisition in Germany.
Company enjoying rebound after tech downturn. 2004 sales up 1% to $25 billion. Net income up 47% to $220 million. But better times have brought renewed competition with rival Tech Data in business known for notoriously slim profits.
Prior to Ingram, spent 11 years at Canada’s Mitel, maker of phone systems, software, electronics. Got his start at Bell Canada, working on one of first e-mail systems in 1979.
Holds business master’s from Georgetown University, bachelor’s from Carleton University, Ottawa. Attended Advanced Manufacturing Program at INSEAD in France. Unlike predecessor Kent Foster, a 2004 OC 50er who split time between OC, Dallas, Spierkel based at company’s Santa Ana HQ.
Parents came from Luxemburg to Canada. Father a jack-of-all-trades, owned newspaper, TV station, worked at airline, dabbled in construction. Mother was a linguist who spoke seven languages.
Played hockey, curling until age 17. Says he wasn’t “NHL material.” Worked for a time in iron ore mines, doing number of duties including driving giant mining trucks. Has lived abroad most of professional life, including in Hong Kong, Singapore, England, Belgium.
Says he enjoys living in OC, particularly because of the weather. Green card set to expire in 2009. “I’ve been paying taxes here for many years,” he says.
Two boys, 8, 11. Both have tri-citizenship: Canada, U.S., UK.
Wife Rhiannon. “A good Welsh name,” he says.
,Andrew Simons
VICTOR TSAO
Senior Vice President, General Manager
Cisco-Linksys LLC
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 21, 1953
Lives in Newport Coast
Founded Irvine’s Linksys, which played big part building consumer market for networking gear. Sold to Cisco Systems for $500 million in 2003, making him, wife Janie, two of OC’s richest.
Two years after buy, says he’s planning to stay another two years, if not longer. Heading up global push for Linksys. Like old days: still runs business with Janie.
Thriving under Cisco. Estimated $1 billion in yearly sales, has more than half U.S. market for home networking gear.
Built Linksys from ground up. In early days, took out trash at Linksys headquarters. Tsaos left cushy computer jobs in late 1980s to start company from home. Classmates from Taiwan approached about selling network gear in U.S.
Used own money. First product was called MultiShare, which linked printers.
Moved on to routers. Today, wireless networking is big. Eyeing devices for videoconferencing over Internet as next big thing.
Struck deal with Cisco chief John Chambers while eating a doughnut. First acquisition Cisco has allowed to keep brand name.
Adjusting to life at public company. “We have to conform to Sarbanes-Oxley, conform to certain standards of accounting and finance.”
Not big on meetings. They just prolong decision-making, he says. Product of Corporate America: worked in middle management in tech department at Taco Bell before starting Linksys. Earlier stints at Santa Fe International, TRW, Kraft.
Successful yet humble. Tsaos don’t like to talk about their wealth. Took trip to Egypt after sale, bought leather jacket. Lived in a modest house in Irvine for several years. Splurged on Newport Coast house when Linksys began to take off.
Bachelor’s in computer science from Taiwan’s Tamkang University. Master’s in computer science, Illinois Institute of Technology. Business master’s, Pepperdine University.
Two sons, 19, 21. Attend UCI, Cal State Fullerton.
Drives a Mercedes. Plays basketball with sons. Doesn’t like golf. Takes up too much time, he says.
Company man: wears Linksys shirts to work. Loves job: “Every day is like a vacation,” he says.
Almost all production done in native Taiwan. Met Janie while at Tamkang University.
,Andrew Simons
JOHN TU
President, Kingston Technology Co.
Born in Chongquing, China, Aug. 21, 1941
Lives in Rolling Hills
DAVID SUN
COO, Vice President
Kingston Technology Co.
Born in Tai-Chung, Taiwan, Oct. 12, 1951
Lives in Irvine
Oddest couple in memory.
Duo leads biggest maker of memory products,segment largely based in OC. Tu, soft-spoken public face of the company. Sun, rambunctious operations man.
2004 sales up 38% to $2.4 billion, highest since company’s 1987 founding. “If the market grows, we grow,” Sun says.
Circuit boards with memory chips for computers are bread and butter. Flash memory cards for consumer devices now about $300 million in yearly sales after Kingston entered market in 2003. Hopes to do as much as $600 million in flash sales this year.
Expanding in China. Opening 260,000-square-foot plant in Shanghai this year. Set to expand China operations by 300%. Plants in Malaysia, Taiwan, too.
Last year, Sun, Tu paid $4 million to buy out China Great Wall Computer Shenzhen’s 20% stake in the company’s Shanghai operation.
Pair made big news in 1996 by handing out $100 million in bonuses to workers after selling 80% of Kingston to Softbank. Duo bought back Kingston in 1999 for fraction of what Softbank paid.
Tech downturn took toll on fabled benevolence. In 2001, some benefits cut, bonuses halted, workers laid off for first time. Yearly sales fell below $1 billion during slump.
Still never lost title as OC’s largest minority-owned company by sales, workers. Business comeback gives even bigger lead.
Sun, Tu still sit in cubicles with other workers. Headquarters has strong Asian influence but is global melting pot: many languages spoken.
In early 1980s, duo founded Camintonn in garage. Lugged around memory in back seats of their cars. Became division VPs when AST Research bought Camintonn. Left to start Kingston in 1987 after losing millions in Camintonn proceeds in stock market crash.
Two made wager when founding company. Tu bet Kingston wouldn’t succeed, Sun bet it would. The stakes: a new Jag. Tu paid off the bet in 1990.
A few years later, Sun gave Jag to a six-year employee whose longtime dream was to own one.
Sun once challenged Sun Microsystems’ Scott McNealy to golf to settle a lawsuit.
Tu’s mother was an actress. Family fled to Taiwan in 1949.
A rebellious student who loved Elvis, sent to Germany to live with an uncle who owned Chinese restaurant. Learned enough Ger-man to start engineering apprenticeship. Earned electrical engineering degree from Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in Germany. Came to U.S. in 1972.
Wife Mary, two children. Plays drums. Every Tuesday, plays with his band,JT and California Dreamin’,at Kingston’s HQ. Includes workers, colleagues, professionals who like Tu because he pays them well.
Sun came from Taiwan in 1977, was chief engineer at Alpha Micro Systems in Costa Mesa, 1978 to 1982. Electrical engineering degree from Taiwan’s Ta-Tung Institute of Technology.
Wife Diana, two children. Avid golfer.
,Andrew Simons
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