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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Leading edge quantitative/qualitative hybrid online technologies to take your online survey to another level.</span></i><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>&nbsp;<br> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><a href="http://www.Fieldwork.com" target="_blank"><b>www.fieldwork.com</b></a> <br> </span><i><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Trusted qualitative partner with a national reach.</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=465 style='width:348.75pt;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td width=105 valign=top style='width:78.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-no-proof:yes'><img border=0 width=75 height=100 id="_x0000_i1025" src="images/kr-about-bio-photo-kupersmit.jpg"></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width=360 style='width:3.75in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#CC6600'>Mr. Benjamin Kupersmit</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><br> Benjamin Kupersmit, president of Kupersmit Research, brings 16 years experience in marketing research. He began his career at Penn and Schoen, where he served as Senior Project Manager on accounts including Major League Baseball, the American Cancer Society and Slim-Fast Foods, as well as polling conducted for the Bill Clinton White House from 1994-1996 and domestic and international campaigns at the national, state and local level.<br> <br> Mr. Kupersmit came to Colorado in 1997 to serve as the Director of Research for Ridder/Braden Associates, where he oversaw research projects conducted on behalf of statewide, congressional and metropolitan political campaigns, as well as non-profit organizations (including the League of Conservation Voters, the Mile High United Way and the Trust for Public Land).<br> <br> Mr. Kupersmit founded Kupersmit Research in 2001. The firm's corporate clients include Boston Market, AIMCO, Thomson Healthcare, Ultimate Electronics and the Medical Group Management Association. Non-profit and governmental clients include the Denver Commission to End Homelessness (Denver's Road Home), the Colorado Division of Wildlife, Trout Unlimited, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, the Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance, the Colorado Department of Health, the Latina Safehouse Initiative, Denver Public Schools and Metro State College.<br> <br> Mr. Kupersmit lectures annually at the University of Denver Korbell School of International Studies and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and has been a featured speaker on surveys, focus groups and strategic research in other institutions in the United States and Mexico.<br> <br> Mr. Kupersmit is a native of Mexico City and holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.<br> <br> &nbsp; </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width=60 style='width:45.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:266.25pt' background="images/white.gif"></td> <td width=250 colspan=4 style='width:187.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:266.25pt' background="images/kr-sidebar.gif"></td> </tr> <!-- copyright bar --> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:5;height:2.25pt'> <td width=800 colspan=8 style='width:600.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:2.25pt' border=0 background="images/white.gif"></td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:6;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:18.75pt'> <td colspan=8 style='background:#A8A8A8;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:18.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:white'>Kupersmit Research &nbsp; " &nbsp; Copyright&nbsp; © &nbsp;2008 &nbsp; " &nbsp; All rights reserved</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>