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Doug began his insurance career with CNA Insurance in 1965. He was one of the earliest employees of EBI Companies and served as its Executive Vice President/Sales and Marketing and was a member of its Board of Directors for 10 years. He was a co-founder of Pacific Compensation Insurance Company and is a 20-year veteran of the California workers' compensation industry. He enjoys an international business reputation as an innovator of "leading-edge" products and services and builder/manager of highly effective marketing and distribution organizations. As a consultant, he focused on developing sales distribution strategies for insurance company start-ups including Employers Direct Insurance Company, MGA ventures, vendors serving the auto finance and mortgage finance markets, data-aggregators, and Internet portals. He has worked on insurance-related development projects throughout the U.S. and internationally, including London, Moscow, Hong Kong, China, and The Cayman Islands. Doug was among the first to develop and apply Internet technologies to redefine distribution strategies for marketing personal lines insurance. As the Chief Executive Officer of the Property and Casualty Group of InsWeb Corporation, a leading insurance Internet portal, he led the development team that provided the first real-time interactive auto insurance quote to consumers via the Internet. He holds a J.D. from the Northwestern School of Law, Portland, Oregon, and is a member of the Oregon State Bar. | 