ImageCat, Inc.

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Ronald T. Eguchi, President and CEO Ronald T. Eguchi is President and CEO of ImageCat, Incorporated, a risk management company specializing in the development and use of advanced technologies for risk assessment and reduction. Mr. Eguchi has over 30 years of experience in risk analysis and risk management studies. He has directed major research and application studies in these areas for government agencies and private industry. He currently serves or has served on several Editorial Boards including the Natural Hazards Review, the Journal on Uncertainties in Engineering Mechanics; and Earthquake Spectra. He is currently a member of the National Research Council’s Disaster Roundtable whose mission it is to identify urgent and important issues related to the understanding and mitigation of natural, technological, and other disasters. He is a past member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the U.S. Geological Survey, a committee that reports to Congress on recommended research directions for the USGS in the area of earthquake hazard reduction. In 2006, he accepted an ATC Award of Excellence on behalf of the ATC-61 project team for work on An Independent Study to Assess Future Savings from Mitigation Activities that showed that a dollar spent on hazard mitigation saves the nation about $4 in future benefits. He was recently recognized by EERI as the 2008 Distinguished Lecturer where he discussed the topic of “Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and other Disasters: A View from Space.” He was also invited as a keynote speaker to the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, held in Beijing, China in 2008. He has authored over 250 publications, many of them dealing with the seismic risk of utility lifeline systems and the use of remote sensing technologies for disaster response. Charles K. Huyck, Executive Vice President As a founding partner of ImageCat, Mr. Huyck has been instrumental in developing operational strategies for spatial technologies. He directs a team of engineers, scientists, and programmers developing software tools and data processing algorithms for loss estimation and risk assessment. He has over 17 years of GIS analysis and application development experience integrating advanced geospatial technologies into disaster simulation tools and CAT modeling programs. He is known for results-oriented and novel solutions to complex spatial modeling problems, including extracting damage estimates and building inventories from satellite imagery, migration of CAT models to an online environment, integration of transportation and lifelines vulnerability into GIS network analysis, and integrating social networking platforms into real time online loss estimation programs. He has authored over 60 papers on risk modeling with GIS and remote sensing, and has overseen or directly contributed to dozens of GIS applications for risk assessment or inventory development, including BRP, VIEWS, InLET, REDARS, HAZUS MH™ and EPEDAT. Rollin Wong, Special General Counsel Mr. Wong is licensed as an attorney in Hawaii and California.

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