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Reginald Van Lee

Mr. Van Lee is a Senior Vice President in the New York office of Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Van Lee specializes in international business and marketing strategy and the management of technology-driven companies. He has been involved in a number of assignments assisting international businesses in both developing business and marketing strategies and making their strategies work. He has co-authored articles on the topic of strategy implementation and developed an innovative and integrated "tool kit" for management with techniques designed to help CEOs realize new strategies and institutionalize existing strategies. His article "Rewiring the Corporation" has appeared in The Journal of Business Strategy and Business Horizons. Mr. Van Lee also was a contributor for the book "The Entertainment Economy – How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives", and has appeared on ABC's "World News This Morning" television program speaking on the topic of the impacts of the current economy on the entertainment industry.

Aside from his numerous publications on the topic of strategy implementation, marketing and high performance organizations, Mr. Van Lee is involved in a number of speaking engagements on those topics. He has chaired seminars at Conference Board sessions on "Strategic Management: Getting Value from Strategic Planning" involving a joint presentation with clients where he has moved their organization from mission to implementation and executed a "rewiring" of the company. In all cases, real-life results have been significant and far-reaching.

Mr. Van Lee holds BS and MS degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also earned an MBA at the Harvard Business School. Mr. Van Lee is also a member and supporter of many organizations and activities outside of Booz Allen Hamilton including the Executive Leadership Council, a non-profit organization providing African-American executives with a leadership network to realize charitable and educational objectives and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, whose mission is to provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful African American, American Indian and Latino women and men in engineering and technology, math- and science-based careers. Mr. Van Lee serves on the Governance committee of the board of NACME.

Additionally, he is a board member of "Register.Com," a leading internet domain registration company; a member of the Partnership for New York City; a member of the Board of Directors of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund; chair of the Board of the EVIDENCE Dance Company; a Trustee and Treasurer of the Studio Museum in Harlem; and Chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. Mr. Van Lee was named one of the top 25 consultants in the world in "Consulting Magazine" in 2000.