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Jan is a founder of Shan Industries, LLC and is Secretary of the Board of Managers. Previously, Jan was a major shareholder, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of DBI/Magnetic Data Technologies and participated in the leveraged buyout of DBI from Applied Magnetics Corporation then a NYSE Company. As General Counsel to DBI Jan also participated in both the purchase by DBI of a division of Quantum Corporation and the acquisition by DBI of Datatape, a $55+ million company from Kodak. Jan has been practicing law for more than twenty five years. Her career began as an aviation trial lawyer with the United States Department of Justice. Jan made the transition to the business world in 1989, becoming General Counsel to Piper Aircraft Corporation, where she not only reduced Piper's litigation costs by more than half, but also began accumulating the corporate and transactional skills she now brings to the Board of Shan. Jan is currently Senior Counsel to the North American subsidiary of Airbus, now the largest maker of commercial aircraft in the world, managing sales and support transactions often valued in the billions of dollars. | 