Dutch Ross biography
Dutch C. Ross III serves as a Independent Director of the Company. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Economic Resources Corporation ("ERC"), a non-profit corporation with a mission of promoting economic development and job creation in underserved neighborhoods. Mr. Ross has served in that capacity since 1996. Prior to joining ERC, from January 1975 to December 1995, Mr. Ross held a variety of managerial, financial and planning positions in the corporate headquarters, and divisional and subsidiary operations of Atlantic Richfield Company ("ARCO"). Over the years, Mr. Ross has been active in a number of community organizations and has served on the boards of directors of several such organizations, including Downtown Long Beach YMCA, where he served as Chairman, Genesis L.A. Economic Growth Corporation, where he currently chairs the Audit Committee and also serves on the Executive Committee, and The Valley Economic Development Center, where he formerly served as a board member, and Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Ross is a financial executive with over forty years of business experience with a Fortune 500 company and non-profit economic development organizations.
