Statement (or answers to questions) to establish my bona fides.

What is your occupation?

I run a company called Solana Point Partners. Five years ago we created a startup web company
called AD2AD, whose main function is providing web-based advertising and software to
community and college newspapers. We have about 200 newspapers using our system. We have
a revenue sharing program, and each week I cut checks for our customers totaling about $30,000.
I wrote the accounting code which we use to track and distribute revenue. I write a blog on
identifying scam advertising, and that led to the Knox County Sherriff’s Department working
with AD2AD to trap a ring of Nigerian bunko artists.

I’m also a novelist. My pen name is John Speed. I have published two novels with Saint Martin’s
Press in New York. My first novel, The Temple Dancer, has been translated into French,
German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian, and was a book of the month club
selection in France, Spain, and Portugal. My second novel, Tiger Claws, was on Amazon’s list of
best-selling historical novels, and is contracted to be translated into Russian and German.

Before that, I was the director of operations for Cricket Communications, a cell-phone network
that operates out of San Diego and 11 other states; and previously I was a director at Qualcomm,
overseeing business processes and systems development.

I also was Vice President of the board of directors of Episcopal Community Services of San
Diego, a non-profit charity of the Episcopal Church. ECS had a budget of roughly 20 Million
dollars, and provided services to children, battered women, and the homeless. As the Board’s
Vice President, I worked closely with Bishop James Mathes and other community leaders.

What was your role on the board of directors of Episcopal Community Services?

All corporate board members have a legal requirement to oversee the actions of the executive
staff. I grew concerned that the extremely popular director of ECS may have been taking actions
that were placing ECS was at risk.

I formed an ad hoc committee and together we documented these concerns. I presented the
report to the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, the Reverend James Mathes, and
then to the board. Despite her popularity, the board confronted her, and the director resigned.

I also included in my report my belief these problems been allowed to happen because the board
of directors as constituted had not been thorough in its oversight. Bishop Mathes asked me to
head up a search committee to nominate a stronger board of directors: we vetted several
candidates, including a former ambassador, the former City Attorney, the former Deputy
Director of the CIA, and a number of notable figures who were duly elected.
Bishop Mathes agreed with my belief that we needed to be public about all these actions, and so
we made a lot of news, which you can read in the archives of the San Diego Tribune.

Bishop Mathes then asked me to serve Vice President for Head Start Affairs. ECS held 11
million dollars in Head Start contracts, and we were now facing an audit committee being sent
by the Director of Head Start in Washington. There was a lot of concern about this audi.,
Normally this sort of audit would have been handled by the Executive Director, but she had just
resigned. So Bishop Mathes put me in charge of presenting our situation to the feds. In the
interim, with the remaining executive staff, I put specific oversight and review processes in
place. So I was able to reassure the federal audit committee that we now had both found and
corrected our managed difficulties. As a result, ECS was able to keep 18 local Head Start
programs open and helping hundreds of children, and these would otherwise have been shut
down.