Advisory Board

Pastor Ronald Hart

Ronald L. "Ron" Hart has been the pastor of Walnut Grove Church since
1975. Under his ministry the church has grown from a faith community of
less than 50 to over 200. Pastor Hart is a graduate of Eugene Bible College
and has held credentials with the Open Bible Churches since 1957. He holds
a BA from Cascade College, Portland, Oregon (1964); a Masters in
Education from the University of Portland, Portland, Oregon (1971); and an
honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Florida Beacon College, Largo,
Florida (1987).

He was the founder and director of Youth Outreach, a residential care and
family-service agency, in Vancouver. He served that agency for 22 years.
Active in his community Ron served three terms (1980 through1991) on the
Vancouver City Council and was mayor pro-tem from 1989-1991. He has
served on the boards of Cascade College, Eugene Bible College, and a host
of community serving agencies. In recognition of his community service, in
1973, Ron was named Vancouver's Junior First Citizen. In that same year,
he received the Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award.

Robert (Red) Bourdage

Red has over 30 years of experience in management, electronics,
information technology, telecommunications and video systems. He has
successfully managed communications, data and video networks in medical,
business, and military settings.

Red managed the implementation; testing, operation and evaluation of a
Congressionally sponsored 4-year Telemedicine and Tele-Radiology. As the
Department of Defense Medical representative on the Defense Information
Infrastructure Initiative team, he was involved in building the military's first
converged voice, video and data network for all military organizations in the
Pacific Northwest. Red has participated in the technical aspects of the
National Transparent Optical Network.

Reds computer science background includes systems programming,
statistical analysis, computer operations, network management and
Internet systems management for government and private industry. His
technical focus has been in high speed Metro Ethernet (Gig E, 10 Gig E)
design and deployment, video systems design and implementation, Free
Space Optics and wireless network design and testing, and Systems testing
and validations.

He has a BA in Behavioral Science and an MBA in Telecommunications
Management.

Herb Femling

Herb has over 20 years experience in finance and the telecommunications
industry. He has served in all phases of the corporate finance and business
planning as well as in IT and operations.

Herb's financial experience includes responsibility for a wide variety of
financial functions and business plan development. He has constructed
complex business planning models, the formulation of business strategy and
product development models. His financial management expertise includes
the design of revenue forecasting, product costing models and evaluating
capital spending requirements relative to the impact on corporate capital
structure. Herb has been involved the development of Regulation 'D' 506
private placement securities offering document.

He has five years of experience in sales and marketing in consumer
products. His education includes BS and MS degrees in science and an MBA in
finance.