GILBERT FRANK AMELIO
Chairman, CEO
Jazz Semiconductor Inc.
Born New York, March 1, 1943
Lives in Corona del Mar
Coming full circle.
Earlier in career, ran chip arm of Rockwell International, which later became Newport Beach-based Conexant Systems. Now running Conexant offshoot Jazz Semiconductor, Rockwell’s former Newport Beach chip plant.
Gained fame as CEO of National Semiconductor in 1991, then in 1996 as short-lived Apple CEO.
With Apple alums Steve Wozniak, Ellen Hancock last year formed Acquicor Technology, which now goes by Jazz Technologies. Blank check company raised $173 million in public offering in 2006 to buy a tech business, settled on Jazz Semiconductor.
Became CEO of chip plant in April, replacing Shu Li, who had run Jazz since 2002 break from Conexant.
Previously was partner with Sausalito-based Sienna Ventures.
At National Semi, was instrumental in cutting costs, returning chipmaker to profitability. Joined Apple board in 1994 while still at National. Left National to be Apple CEO in 1996. Ousted in boardroom coup in 1997, replaced by cofounder, current CEO Steve Jobs (who Amelio brought back as an adviser). Some Apple faithful critical of Amelio. Others defend his tenure.
Other career stops include Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor.
Big Apple native, grew up in Miami. Earned bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate in physics from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Adviser to prime minister of Malaysia. Director, trustee, American Film Institute.
Gentlemanly, charming, modest, thoughtful. Republican. Frequently gives money to GOP candidates, including President Bush, Newt Gingrich, former congressman Christopher Cox. Member, New Majority. Helped start TheVanguard.Org, right’s answer to leftist MoveOn.Org.
Advisory board member, UCI’s Center for Embedded Computer Systems. Longtime fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Recognized in 1996 by National Conference for Community and Justice for promoting prejudice-free society. Has co-authored three books. Lectures frequently. Engineer. Holds 16 patents.
An air transport-rated jet pilot with 3,700 hours of flying time. Enjoys mountains.
Lives in Corona del Mar with wife, Charlene. Five children.
,Andrew Simons
JOHN EDWARD COLEMAN
CEO
Gateway Inc.
Age 55
Computer maker’s third boss in past year.
Heading up Irvine-based Gateway since September. Replaced chairman, interim-CEO Rick Snyder, who filled in for most of 2006. Early in year, Snyder replaced Wayne Inouye, who restored profits, boosted sales through stores but left over slow direct sales.
Coleman on board with representative from dissident shareholder Firebrand Partners. Last year, Firebrand threatened proxy fight over poor results, Gateway’s shunning of buyout offer. Things calm of late.
CEO, Dallas-based CompuCom Systems, big computer reseller to corporate clients, from 1999 to 2004. Inherited office once used by Ross Perot while running Electronic Data Systems. Led CompuCom sale to Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity for $250 million. Went on to be senior VP at electronics distributor Arrow Electronics. Earlier career stops include Computer Sciences, IBM. Led national sales force at Big Blue.
Named one of Computer Reseller News’ “Top 25 Executives” in 2003. Recipient of the 2004 VARBusiness 500 “Lifetime Achievement Award.”
Starting to make presence known locally. Set to give keynote at AeA awards in Newport Beach in May.
Earned bachelor’s in economics from College of William & Mary. Master’s in business, marketing from Indiana University. Serves on advisory board of William & Mary School of Business. Director, Red Oak Software of New Jersey.
Gregarious, personable. Goes by Ed. Declined to disclose birth date, city of residence, family details for this writeup. Became father for first time in 2003 at age 52. Enjoys hiking. Favorite spot is Swiss Alps.
,Andrew Simons
JOHN F. COYNE
CEO, President
Western Digital Corp.
Age 56
Lives in Laguna Beach
His turn. Third boss for disk drive maker since 2005.
Became CEO at start of year after taking over from Arif Shakeel, who spent a year on the job after following longtime leader Matt Massengill. Recently, Massengill said he stepped aside to make way for longtime colleagues Shakeel, Coyne, who otherwise might have moved on. Massengill, Shakeel remain as directors.
Coyne a worldly Irishman. Like predecessors, Western Digital vet. First joined in 1983 to start company’s circuit board operations in Ireland. Went on to oversee manufacturing in Irvine, board production worldwide.
Left to join circuit board maker SCI Systems, later tapped to run European operations of onetime Anaheim circuit board maker Data-Design Laboratories in early 1990s. Oversaw Data-Design plant in Northern Ireland.
Rejoined Western Digital in 1997, overseeing Malaysia operations. Oversaw consolidation of drive production in Malaysia, closed 2,000-person Singapore plant in bid to save profits amid falling prices. In early 2000s, led expansion into Thailand, where bulk of production now done.
Earned title of datuk, honorary Malaysian term, while working for Western Digital’s operations in Southeast Asia.
Named president in 2006. VP, COO starting in 2005. Senior VP, worldwide operations, 2000 to 2005. In 2003, integrated acquisition of drive parts maker Read-Rite.
Dublin native. Earned bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from University College, Dublin. Declined to disclose birth date, middle name, hobbies, family details.
,Andrew Simons
DWIGHT WILLIAM DECKER
Chairman, CEO
Conexant Systems Inc.
Born in Brandon, Manitoba,
March 18, 1950
Lives in Newport Beach (Back Bay)
Mr. Conexant taking second stab at retirement.
Longtime leader plans to end second go-round at chipmaker this fall. Search for successor under way with Decker, 57, planning to retire, stay on as non-executive chairman.
First stepped back after combining with New Jersey’s GlobespanVirata in 2004. Came out of retirement several months later to help company through difficult transition.
Returned Conexant to profitability. Turnaround came from making chips for satellite TV boxes, high-speed Internet, wireless networking, outsourcing some engineering to India.
Warned in January about continued sluggishness in chip sector, which slowed last year.
Previously led company as chip arm of then defense contractor Rockwell. Almost fired from Rockwell decade ago for pushing shift away from custom chips to modem chips, years before Internet boomed. Led 1999 spinoff. Rode tech boom, crash.
Started reworking company in 2002, selling off businesses, spinning off Mindspeed Technologies, wireless chip unit as Skyworks Solutions. Chip plant split off as Jazz Semiconductor, bought earlier this year by fellow OC 50er Gil Amelio’s Jazz Technologies for $260 million. Conexant got $100 million for its remaining stake, bought $10 million in Jazz shares in February as show of confidence.
Academic, competitive, charitable. Big donor, particularly to UCI. Member, former chair, UCI Chief Executive Roundtable, recruited 20-plus members. Big KOCE supporter, appeared in commercial backing public TV station.
Last year, lobbied Congress on tech issues on behalf of trade group TechNet.
Helped start Laguna Beach’s Okapi Venture Capital, which raised $30 million to fund startups. Has tried to boost startups in OC through tech advisory group Octane, where he’s a driving force.
Given to Santa Clara University law school, Newport’s Mariners Library. Politically active. Political affairs chair for New Majority. With wife, given to President Bush, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Campbell, Ed Royce, fellow OC 50er Loretta Sanchez, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Grew up in rural Canada. Received bachelor’s in physics, math from McGill University in Montreal. Doctorate in applied math from Caltech. Math prof at North Carolina State, Raleigh, from 1978 to 1984. Later joined TeleBit in Silicon Valley. Left academia behind for corporate life.
Returns to Canada for visits. Says he prefers weather in OC.
Director, Pacific Life, along with OC 50er Tom Sutton. Chairman of Skyworks Solutions, Mindspeed Technologies. Director, BCD Semiconductor in Shanghai, Fabless Semiconductor Association in San Jose.
Wife Silla, 5-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
No-nonsense engineer exec.
Runs designer of data storage networking chips, circuit boards, switches.
Counts heavyweights Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi among customers.
Recently upped lead over cross-county rival (and former parent) Emulex in a piece of profitable electronics for data storage networks. Two companies dominate host bus adapter market. Says smaller players in market could be in his sights.
Last year, paid $60 million for Pennsylvania’s SilverStorm Technologies, venture-backed maker of switches for data storage networks. Sitting on more than $400 million in cash, investments at recent check.
Stock slumping this year after disappointing December quarter results, warning about March quarter.
Active elsewhere in OC. Has spent past several years working on Irvine-based Lantronix, where he’s chairman. Also on board of Irvine chipmaker Microsemi.
Rarely misses a chance to pitch the company to investors on investment conference circuit. Spending two-thirds of time on road. Nearing 13th year as QLogic CEO. Still engineer at heart.
Was engineering manager at Unisys in Mission Viejo for 10 years before joining QLogic in 1990 as engineering director. Left QLogic in 1995 to become VP at Western Digital. Lured back as interim CEO after abrupt exit of then CEO Mel Gable. Board said to have come around to his way of thinking. Post made permanent in 1996.
Earlier stints at NCR, Sperry Univac, Addressograph-Multigraph.
Earned master’s in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley.
Thoughtful, shrewd. Aggressive in meetings.
Strives for freedom of information. Enables all to speak freely, especially engineers. Waits in line at lunch with everyone else.
Company split 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.”
Corporate governance wonk. 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.
Likes golf.
Wife Anjanna, former medical technologist at Mission Hospital. Two grown children. Son Ankur Harshad Desai, analyst at New York hedge fund Galleon Group, married last year in Hindu ceremony in New Jersey.
,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 San Juan Capistrano
Broadcom’s ruling duo, version 2.0.
Samueli sole remaining founder at OC’s most valuable company. McGregor starting third year running chipmaker.
McGregor third CEO in company’s 15-year history. Replaced interim chief, chip veteran Alan “Lanny” Ross, who himself replaced founder Henry “Nick” Nicholas.
Company recently moved to new headquarters near UCI. Looking to close a chapter, move beyond headline-grabbing options issue.
Recently reissued financial statements for 1998 to 2005 with added charges of $2.2 billion for option grants improperly accounted for. Former financial chief Bill Ruehle stepped down in September.
Issue predated McGregor. Samueli said to have had only passing involvement, though he’s under some pressure to cooperate in federal probe.
Prosecutors said to be close to filing charges against Ruehle, another former exec.
Nicholas still has 29.3% of voting stake, second to Samueli’s 29.7%.
Stock off nearly 30% in past 12 months, in part because of scandal but more on slowdown in chip sector that started last year. Rebounded since, up about 45% from summer low.
Wall Street expects business pickup, calls company’s handling of glut “best in class.”
Settled some litigation with Qualcomm, some issues still outstanding. In April, stepped up fight with lawsuit challenging Qualcomm business practices.
Former Philips chip exec, McGregor has continued to refocus company on consumer electronics. Apple iPhone due by summer has Broadcom controller.
Thoughtful, calculating. Likes spending time outdoors, with wife, two kids. Animated, personable. Excited to talk about electronics. Writes blog for workers.
Says key to keeping employees happy is providing startup-like excitement. Most company sites have sports facilities.
Formerly headed Philips Semiconductors. Lengthy background in software. Stints with Santa Cruz Operation, Microsoft, Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. Also worked at Digital Equipment.
Samueli, engineer, former UCLA professor, oversees research. Turned down CEO job upon Nicholas’ 2003 exit to stay focused on research.
Worked at PairGain, TRW with Nicholas in 1980s. Started Broadcom in 1991. Recruited best engineering students to work at company.
Bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate in electrical engineering from UCLA. Described as engineering genius.
Samueli, wife Susan, bought Anaheim Ducks hockey team from Walt Disney for about $75 million in 2005. Seen two strong seasons, flies to key away games in private jet. Couple recently received star on Anaheim’s “Walk of Stars.”
Philanthropic billionaire. Gave $30 million to UCLA. Almost same amount to UCI. Both schools named engineering schools after him. Had big hand in moving Broadcom HQ to University Research Park alongside UCI.
Performing Arts Center, Ocean Institute, Temple Beth El, Reform Synagogue, University Synagogue also beneficiaries. Given more than $200 million in all.
Dabbles in politics. Gives primarily to republicans, some democrats.
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.
Understated, moderate. Likes hiking, basketball, skiing. Three children.
,Andrew Simons
GREGORY MARK EMILE SPIERKEL
CEO
Ingram Micro Inc.
Born in Sept- & #206;les, Quebec,
Jan. 27, 1957
Lives in Laguna Hills
Good two years so far.
Since 2005, has run OC’s largest company by sales. Calls himself “leader of leaders.” Says tech products distributor, with $31 billion in yearly sales, “largest organization in the U.S. that no one has ever heard of.”
Revenue growth slowing,9% in 2006 compared to 13% in 2005. Shares flat for past 12 months.
Spent time early on streamlining, cutting costs, centralizing operations. Now said to be focused on growth.
Saw record profit for fourth quarter at $92 million, up 8% from year earlier. Sales rose 11% to $8.9 billion.
Has pushed diversification. Moving company beyond big computer companies,IBM, Microsoft,into consumer electronics. Think Sony.
Big outsourcing push. In 2000, Ingram employed 3,400 people at headquarters. Today, fewer than 900.
Led Ingram’s $530 million buy in 2004 of Australia’s Tech Pacific, largest deal in company history. Was behind 2005’s $120 million buy of home electronics company Avad. Also key in 1997’s buy of Singapore’s Electronic Resources.
Joined 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 Europe, Asia.
Operations prowess: oversaw Europe consolidation, integration of major acquisition in Germany.
In low-profit business, drills frugality into workers. Turns off heat on winter weekends. Dons jacket for chilly Monday mornings.
Canadian. Reserved, unpretentious, quick with smile. 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.
Said to be open to other opinions. Regularly spends time with customers.
Parents came from Luxembourg to Canada. Colorful family. Uncle founded Cirque du Soleil. 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 in iron ore mines, doing number of duties including driving giant mining trucks. Lived abroad most of professional life, including in Hong Kong, Singapore, England, Belgium.
Likes OC weather, living.
Two boys, 9, 12. Both have triple citizenship: Canada, U.S., U.K.
Wife Rhiannon, “a good Welsh name.”
,Andrew Simons
GARY SHIGEO TOYAMA
Vice President, Southern California region
Boeing Integrated Systems, Boeing Co.
Born in Great Lakes, Ill., May 9, 1954
Lives in Orange
Boeing’s local leader during a time of company growth, big moves, management changes.
Took over in 2005 after former OC 50er Bill Collopy, who held position since 2003, retired.
Local operations seeing expansion with Pentagon’s effort to connect, unify, upgrade military systems.
Much of the effort centered in Huntington Beach, Anaheim, Seal Beach.
Toyama oversees about 30,000 workers in Southern California, including 12,000 in Anaheim, Cypress, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach.
Oversees government relations, site administration, facilities, efficiency, community outreach. Not in charge of programs.
Leading consolidation effort in Southern California in bid to manage costs, customer needs. Involved in plans for land, buildings, commuting relief, workspace design.
Big changes to come: Last year, Boeing announced five-year plan to close massive Anaheim site, move 3,700 workers into free space at 2.6 million-square-foot Huntington Beach campus.
Working with Anaheim on redevelopment plan.
Nearly 1,000 Delta rocket workers in Huntington Beach to leave for Denver as part of satellite venture with Lockheed Martin in next three years.
Had reported to former OC 50er Jim Albaugh, chief executive of Integrated Defense Systems in St. Louis. Now reports to Howard Chambers, vice president, general manager of Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems in Seal Beach.
Southern California has diverse collection of businesses for Boeing,some running more than 50 years. Sites sometimes make decisions without much thought for others.
Toyama looking to help transition as older Boeing workforce retires. Wants more virtual offices for commuters.
People person: has brought site managers into more joint meetings. Trying to organize information from each site to easily share among different operations.
Toyama’s goal: Improve competitiveness in Southern California through consolidation, lower costs, streamline processes. Wants to ensure Boeing businesses here remain profitable, stable, continue to grow.
Has engineering, finance training. Knows local operations well.
After graduating from UCI in 1978 with business master’s, joined Rockwell International in finance department. Within three years, was in management. Later moved to operations, manufacturing at Rockwell. Boeing bought Rockwell defense operations in late 1990s.
Has touched almost every piece of region’s businesses in past decade.
Previously was deputy to vice president of operations for Integrated Defense Systems. Pair oversaw 20,000 workers in 20 plants across the country.
Was director for Delta IV rocket program in Huntington Beach. Was director of business operations for space group in Seal Beach.
Of Japanese descent. Affable. Friendly. Unselfish. Sends personally signed holiday cards to colleagues.
Executive sponsor for several diversity groups at Boeing (Seal Beach Boeing Hispanic Employees Network, Asian American Professionals Association, Amelia Earhart Society, Mesa Boeing Black Employees Association).
In 2005, landed Mentor-of-the-Year award from Inroads (nonprofit that trains talented minority youths). Past recipient, National Asian American Corporate Achievement Award.
Sits on boards of California Chamber of Commerce, Performing Arts Center, Orange County Workforce Investment Board.
Oversees $10 million in donations by Boeing to local charities, community projects, including Para Los Ninos.
Professional bowler during college years. By age 13, had average score of 170. Has bowled 27 perfect games.
Car buff. Displays personal collection at local car shows benefiting charities.
Married 28 years to wife Sandy. Two grown daughters, one a graduate of UCLA, other graduating in 2007 from UC San Diego.
,Sarah Tolkoff
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
Coming off best year in recent memory for OC’s computer memory duo.
Founders of largest maker of memory products for computers, networking gear, consumer widgets. Kingston is county’s largest privately held tech company, largest minority-owned company.
Buys memory chips from Asian, European suppliers, assembles on circuit boards or as flash.
Reported record sales of $3.4 billion for 2006, 13% jump from year earlier. Budding business selling flash for consumer devices spurred gain.
Company employs about 850 local workers, 3,300 worldwide. Sun, Tu adding to payroll, chiefly in sales, marketing.
Expanding operations overseas. Opened 260,000-square-foot plant in Shanghai last year. Plants in Malaysia, Taiwan. In 2005, put up $27 million through Japanese affiliate for 27% stake in company that tests memory wafers for chipmakers in Japan. Making push into Brazil, rest of Latin America.
Opposite personas. Sun lively, unconventional operations man. Tu, funny, soft-spoken public face.
Executives of the people. Famous for handing out $100 million in bonuses to workers after selling 80% of Kingston to Softbank in 1990s. Duo bought back Kingston in 1999 for fraction of what Softbank paid.
Weathered tough times. During 2001 downturn, pair cut some benefits, bonuses halted, workers laid off for first time. Yearly sales fell below $1 billion during slump.
Duo started Camintonn in garage in early 1980s. Became division VPs when computer maker AST Research bought Camintonn. Left to start Kingston in 1987 after losing millions in proceeds in stock market crash.
Tu’s family fled China for Taiwan in 1949. Mother was an actor. Sent to Germany as a kid to live with uncle who owned a Chinese restaurant. Loves Elvis.
Heads own band, JT and California Dream-in’. Recently played at opening gala of Marion Knott Studios at Chapman University. Tu plays drums.
Generous. UCI cancer diagnostic center named for him, friend Tom Yuen, AST cofounder. (Investor in Yuen’s stem cell startup PrimeGen Biotech.) Was businessman benefactor portrayed in 2007 movie “Freedom Writers” about real-life teacher who motivates at-risk teens. Tu bought computers for students, staged trips for them to Auschwitz, Bosnia.
Earned electrical engineering degree from Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in Germany. Came to U.S. in 1972. Wife Mary, two children. Collects Ferraris.
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
PAUL FRANCIS FOLINO
Executive Chairman
Emulex Corp.
Born in Seattle, Jan. 23, 1945
Lives in Coto de Caza
JAMES M. McCLUNEY
CEO, President
Emulex Corp.
Born Glasgow, Scotland, June 1951
Lives in Laguna Niguel
Folino longtime leader. McCluney successor putting own mark on company.
Last year, Folino passed reins in long-planned transition. As executive chairman, Folino has hand in integrating recently acquired companies.
McCluney calling shots now. Was president, chief operating officer since 2003. Worked with Folino on transition since coming aboard when his company, Vixel, bought by Emulex in 2003.
Before running Vixel, held executive posts at Silicon Valley startup Ridge Technologies, Digital Equipment, Apple.
Former Apple exec, was at meeting during turbulent resignation of fellow OC 50er, then Apple CEO Gil Amelio in 1997. McCluney stayed on under current CEO Steve Jobs before leaving later that year.
Adept at acquisitions. Played key role in last year’s buys of Aarohi Communications, Sierra Logic.
Soft-spoken Scotsman known for humor, humility. Brought own management style to Emulex. Runs company as “balanced democracy,” which gives him “diverse” perspective. Welcomes cordial disagreement among executive team.
British citizen, holds U.S. green card.
Wants a billion in yearly sales for Emulex by end of decade, up from $500 million now.
Bachelor’s in business from Glasgow’s University of Strathclyde.
Wife Vivian on Pacific Symphony board of counselors, advisory group to symphony’s directors. Two grown children. Likes Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, walking, cycling, reading, live music, theater.
Folino grew company into dominant supplier of electronics for data storage networks. CEO from 1993 to September. Built business into OC’s fourth largest technology company with recent $1.6 billion market value. Moved company to bigger Costa Mesa campus in 2003.
Member, past chairman of moderate Republican group New Majority. Close friend, adviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarz-enegger. State finance co-chair for Rudy Giuliani campaign.
Has given more than $1 million to governor, his causes. Big fund-raiser: has helped raise more than $10 million for governor, mostly from New Majority members. VIP at state of state speeches.
Top OC philanthropist. Heavily involved in Performing Arts Center as board member, former chair. Led South Coast Rep growth, theater named for him. Awarded Outstanding Patron by Arts Orange County in 2003.
Vice chairman of Chapman University’s board, heads fund raising for Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Also supports Cal State Fullerton.
From Seattle, born into a modest 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 MBA from Seattle University.
Approachable, friendly. Adept communicator.
Huge sports fan. Likes golf, has season tickets to Lakers, Clippers, Ducks, Angels. True to roots, is Seattle Seahawks fan. Wife Daranne, grown daughter Courtney.
,Andrew Simons
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