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DOUG AUGUSTINE

Mr. Augustine was born in San Diego in 1958 and graduated in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley, with a Bachelor Degree in Political Science and Economics. He then attended the University of San Diego, Graduate School of Business, completed a Columbia Business School course for executives in finance, and graduated from the University of San Diego, School of Law in 1985. While still in law school, he received his NASD “Series 7” license and sold securities to fund law school. Following law school, Mr. Augustine worked at the law firm of Friedman, Jay & Cramer focusing on transactional, securities, real estate and corporate law.

In 1987, Mr. Augustine entered the sports marketing industry to work with Dennis Conner and Dennis Conner Sports as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Augustine’s focus was on marketing Mr. Conner globally as well as raising more than $13M in sponsorships for the 1988 America’s Cup defense.

In 1989, Mr. Augustine founded Arlen Pacific which continues to be his operating company today. In partnership with IMG, Arlen Pacific represented the 1992 America’s Cup Organizing Committee on all aspects of their fundraising activities including: sponsorship, licensing, merchandising, management of the AT&T America’s Cup Village and production of the “1992 America’s Cup Official Record.” More than $7M was raised on behalf of the America’s Cup Organizing Committee. During the 1995 America’s Cup, Arlen Pacific represented all the fundraising activities for the America3 Foundation, excluding personal donors. It was an extremely successful fundraising effort with more than $12.5M raised in only nine months.

After New Zealand won the America’s Cup, in 1995, Arlen Pacific was recruited by a major advertising agency to work on the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta. The clients represented were AT&T and General Motors. The team Arlen Pacific was part of was responsible for all on-site sponsorship and activation projects which included sponsorship negotiating naming rights to the “AT&T Centennial Olympic Park,” building, operating and programming both the “AT&T Global Olympic Village” and the “General Motors Century of Motion.”

After the Atlanta Olympics, Mr. Augustine was instrumental in two internet start-ups: InterVU which went public and was eventually sold to Akamai for more than $2B; and Bidland which was eventually liquidated, returning more than 75% of the capital raised to its investors through major lawsuit over intellectual property against a major international telecommunications company.

In 2002, Mr. Augustine was recruited back into the sports and entertainment industry by the Interpublic Group of Companies, a NYSE listed company (IPG) with revenues in excess of $5 billon. At IPG, Mr. Augustine was instrumental in creating the Interpublic Sports & Entertainment Group (IPSEG) where he served as worldwide Chief Operating Officer overseeing seven global operating companies with revenues close to $1B with more than 1500 employees.

Mr. Augustine left IPG in 2005, returned to San Diego and re-launched Arlen Pacific as a global consulting business. Mr. Augustine has been providing consulting services to multiple companies, in multiple industries, around the world. Currently, Doug, his wife Kimiko and their sons, Nicholas, Samuel and Jack, reside in the Point Loma area of San Diego.