Charlie Taylor

After managing a direct and retail sales operation for a local specialty product company, Charlie Taylor began his career in the mid 1970's with the international consumer finance conglomerate, Beneficial Corporation, managing branch offices in Maryland and Virginia. Innovations and achievements at Beneficial included the introduction and development of the private label credit card, and high limit revolving consumer mortgages in the Washington, D.C. area, which led to his receipt of Beneficial Corporations’ President’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 1983, among other accolades.

After an eleven year stint at Beneficial, Charlie turned his attention to establishing and developing a local mortgage company, and established an agency for the Stewart Land Title Insurance Company of Houston, Texas, under the corporate umbrella of Financial Services, Inc., a privately held Virginia corporation formed in 1986.

In addition to serving as president of Financial Services, Inc., from 1988 to 1998, Charlie also engaged in activities in the intergovernmental relations arena which included active participation on a host of federal legislative initiatives including the annual federal budget, environmental, social, tax, and transportation legislation. Highlights include the Telecommunications Act Amendments, Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Energy Policy Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, the $155 billion Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), the $218 billion Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century (TEA-21), the Swift High Speed Rail Development Act, and aviation, Coast Guard, Amtrak, and annual appropriation's legislation. Former clients have included the Orlando International Airport, Jacksonville (FL) Transportation Authority, Florida Department of Transportation and the Georgia Department of Transportation. As former chief lobbyist for the State of Georgia on transportation issues during the development, and subsequent enactment of the TEA-21 transportation legislation, Charlie successfully advanced concepts, policies and principles which led to agreement between House, Senate, and Administration decision makers.

Charlie had also been actively engaged for many years in the National Governors’ Association - Transportation Working Group, participating in the development and implementation of national surface transportation policy for the Governors. He also served as a member of the High Speed Ground Transportation Associations’ Government Relations Committee, and had been an active participant in numerous American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) functions. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Road Gang, a nonprofit transportation association originally organized in 1942, whose membership includes key members of Congress, industry representatives, and U.S. Government officials.

Charlie also has recently served as President and Chairman of the Board of a local golf, swim and tennis club, a private nonprofit recreational facility located in Sterling, Virginia.

In 1999, Charlie launched www.vidnet.org, a new division of Financial Services, Inc. after developing an innovation which allows a user to click on a weblink and be connected to a video conference room. Vidnet.org will advance a new innovation in multi-participant video conferencing, which allows multiple users to connect easily through the Vidnet.org Internet website. He was certified as a programmer in the Fortran computer language in 1971, and has been actively involved in the application and development of communications software and systems since. In March, 2000, his company, www.vidnet.org, division of Financial Services, Inc. was named Certified Alliance Partner by CU-SeeMe Networks, Inc., NASDAQ: CUSM (formerly White Pine Software), makers of the award winning communications software CU-SeeMe® Pro desktop / laptop video conferencing software and MeetingPoint® video conference server software, to advance the application and delivery of PC based multi-participant video conferencing and communications systems for business, colleges and universities, schools, and governments. This innovative system allows a user to actually see and talk with others in small or large groups on their PC, as well as exchange instant text messages, share documents and applications.

Charlie attended Texas Tech University, the University of Virginia and Paralegal Institute.

An avid golfer, and sailor, Charlie resides with his wife, Mary Jo, and the three youngest of five children in their home in Loudoun County, Virginia.

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December 6, 2000