Deloitte & Touche Alumni News - November 6-12, 2006

• FiREapps, the leading provider of corporate foreign exchange management technologies, announced the appointment of Andrew Gage as vice president of marketing. Gage has accumulated over 16 years of experience in marketing, product management and consulting. In his role as vice president of marketing, Andrew will be responsible for driving the vision, strategy and value proposition to FiREapps customers. Gage was most recently vice president of marketing and product management for Destinator Technologies where he had global oversight for all aspects of marketing and product strategy. Prior to Destinator, Gage was vice president of marketing and industry solutions at Cyclone Commerce. He also spent several years providing strategic consulting services for Deloitte Consulting. (Source: FiREapps, 11/7/2006)

• Switch and Data, a leading provider of Internet exchange and colocation services, announced that M. Alex White has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. He will serve on the Board’s Governance Committee and will be Chairman of the Audit Committee. White is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 25 years of experience working with public companies. He was an audit partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP from 1987 until his retirement effective January 2005. During his career at Deloitte & Touche, Mr. White spent the majority of his time serving public companies and led the Sarbanes-Oxley effort for the North Florida practice of Deloitte & Touche at the time of his retirement. (Source: Switch and Data, 11/7/2006)

• Calvetti, Ferguson & Wagner, P.C. (CF&W), a full-service public accounting and business advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Kevin Chesser has joined as partner of the firm effective November 1, 2006. Kevin will lead the firm's Audit practice and will also play a key role in the firm's Public Company Consulting practice, providing technical accounting consulting services to SEC registrants. Chesser comes to CF&W from Sterling Bancshares where he served as Senior Vice President and Controller. Previously, Chesser served as a Senior Audit Manager with Deloitte & Touche LLP. (Source: Calvetti, Ferguson & Wagner, P.C., 11/7/2006)

• American States Water Company elected Gary F. King as a Class II director of the Company to serve until the Company’s annual meeting in 2008 or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Mr. King (age 59) was also elected as a director of two of the Company’s subsidiaries, Golden State Water Company and Chaparral City Water Company. Mr. King retired as a senior audit partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP in 2005, after 27 years of service with the firm. (Source: American States Water Company, 11/7/2006)

• American States Water Company has elected Gary F. King as a class II director of the company until its 2008 annual meeting or a successor is elected, the company said. King, 59, was also elected director of two of the company's subsidiaries, Golden State Water Co. and Chaparral City Water Co. He retired in 2005 as a senior audit partner of Deloitte & Touche in 2005 after working there for 27 years. (Source: Losangeles.bizjournals.com, 11/8/2006)

• Atlanta-based Callaway Partners, an accounting professional services firm focused on project management and staff augmentation, announced that Keith Keller joined the firm as a national partner and will lead Callaway’s internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley and financial services practices. Prior to joining Callaway Partners, Keller served as deputy chief auditor and senior vice president at Wachovia Corporation in Charlotte. Previously, Keller was in charge of the Sarbanes-Oxley and internal audit practices within the enterprise risk services group for the Southeast at Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Atlanta. (Source: S-ox.com, 11/8/2006)

• Manaris Corporation President and CEO, John Fraser, is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Tony J. Giuliano as Manaris' Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Giuliano joined Manaris Corporation in August 2006 as Group Controller. He brings more than fifteen years of experience in corporate finance and investment banking. He spent the first nine years of his career with Deloitte & Touche Canada in Montreal where he gained expertise with Canadian public companies operating (Source: Manaris Corporation, 11/8/2006)

• Courtney Ruby beat incumbent City Auditor Roland Smith, apparently denying him a third term with 64 percent of the vote in the recent election. Ruby, chief financial officer of the East Bay Conservation Corps, pledged to turn the city auditor's office into a model for the rest of the state by focusing on areas that pose the greatest risk to the city's financial well being. Ruby, a certified public accountant who also has worked for Deloitte & Touche, collected the lion's share of high-profile endorsements, including five members of the Oakland City Council and U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee. (Source: Insidebayarea.com, 11/8/2006)

• London Business School is delighted to announce that Robin Buchanan is to be its new Dean. Buchanan is currently the Senior Partner in the UK of Bain & Company Inc., the global business consultancy. He will bring to the School over 30 years' experience of providing advice on strategy, organization, operations and acquisitions to international business clients. Buchanan was elected Managing Partner of Bain in the UK in 1990, and became Senior Partner in 1996. From 1979-82 Mr Buchanan worked for American Express International Banking Corporation and prior to that worked with accounting firm Mann Judd Landau (now Deloitte & Touche) (Source: London Business School, 11/8/2006)

• CIT Canada, a division of CIT Group Inc., a leading global provider of commercial and consumer finance solutions, announced the appointment of Mark Bruce Smith as Senior Vice President of CIT Vendor Finance, Canada. Smith will be responsible for overseeing CIT's vendor financing relationships throughout Canada. Prior to CIT, Smith served as General Manager of Dell Financial Services (DFS) Canada. He has also worked at Deloitte & Touche, providing audit, tax, and consulting services to clients. He received a BA from McMaster University and is a Chartered Accountant. (Source: CIT Group Inc, 11/9/2006)

• The E.W. Scripps Co. has named Douglas F. Lyons its new vice president of finance and administration for Scripps Interactive Media. Lyons has served as the corporation's director of financial reporting since 1992, and previously was an audit manager with Deloitte & Touche. (Source: The Cincinnati Post, 11/10/2006

• Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products has upped and Sherice Torres to Senior Vice President, Hard Goods. Torres will lead the business development and creative efforts of multiple product categories, including: toys and games; packaged goods; stationery; social expressions; and consumer electronics. Torres came to Nickelodeon in 1999 as Director of Licensing for Interactive, Home Entertainment, and Consumer Electronics. Prior to joining Nickelodeon, Torres was a consultant with Deloitte & Touche where she did strategic planning and change management across various industries. Torres is active in a number of trade organizations. (Source: Nickelodeon, 11/10/2006)

• Fifth Third Bancorp announced that it has hired Raymond C. Dury as chief information officer (CIO). As CIO, Dury will be responsible for leading the Bank's technological processes, systems developments and e-commerce solutions. Dury, 46, comes to Fifth Third with 20 years of experience in senior and executive management roles in operations and information technology. Most recently, he was managing director, Citigroup Technology Infrastructure, where he led the North American Technology Infrastructure Group including core technology systems, data centers, operations, network and voice services, project office and business services. He previously was chief information officer at Ameritrade Holding Corporation and before that a managing consultant with Deloitte Consulting. (Source: Fifth Third Bancorp, 11/10/2006)