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GOVERNANCE


Chip Ragen

President, Ragen& Associates, LLC.


Chip Ragen is President of Ragen Associates LLC, a 22-employee high-end garden design/build firm and garden pottery importer/distributor in Seattle, WA. Since 1991 Ragen Associates has operated out of the 24,000 s.f. Autorow Bldg in Seattle's historic Capitol Hill district. Chip Ragen serves on the board of the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce and on the Board of Trustees of The Northwest School.


D. Bruce Smith

Vice President, Institutional Funds Group & American Beacon

In his capacity with American Beacon, Mr. Smith is responsible for developing sales growth in a newly created $76 million sales territory in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states. Mr. Smith delivers expert advice, planning, and consultation to top producers and consultants in the Bank/Trust, RIA, Wirehouse, Private Wealth Management, Regional B/D and Retirement channels. American Beacon Advisors is a top institutional money management firm with $45 billion in assets under management in 14 mutual funds, an actively managed ETF and Private Equity limited

Jim Mueller

Managing Partner
Prior to founding JC Mueller LLC, Jim spent four years as the Senior Director of Development for Vulcan, Inc., a Seattle-based Paul Allen Company. During this time, Jim was responsible for one of the largest recent redevelopment endeavors in a major urban center—the concept, planning and development of Seattle's South Lake Union area. Working closely with teammates, city planners and neighborhood groups, Jim devised a plan to redevelop approximately 30 city blocks, creating much-needed life sciences research, office, residential for sale and rental, retail and complex mixed-use projects. Projects ranged in size from $30 million to approximately $300 million, with an aggregate total build-out that will approach $3 billion.