Mr. Fleming has over 35 years of extensive business experience, with an emphasis in finance. His expertise with both service and manufacturing businesses includes serving as a financial executive with functional responsibilities for accounting, banking relationships, budgeting, insurance, information processing, legal and financial reporting and personnel.

Prior to working with The Scotland Group, Inc.^®, Mr. Fleming served as Vice President of Special Projects for Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., a large publicly held corporation. He successfully managed the administrative aspects of the company's Reorganization Plan for several years, including the establishment of an in-house data processing system and staff to monitor and adjudicate the claims of over 50,000 creditors, totaling over $1 billion. He was also responsible for the Company's preparedness for NCQA on a national basis.

Mr. Fleming served as Assistant Corporate Controller to Purex Corporation and Corporate Controller to Sega Corporation, both NYSE listed companies. As Controller, he set up actual versus budget reporting systems, established a cash-flow reporting system that highlighted buildups of inventories and receivables at various divisions, and also instituted a "what if" costing system to accurately analyze the effects of rapidly increasing costs.

As Vice President of Finance for Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakers, Inc., Mr. Fleming reduced annual distribution expenses over $500,000 by route restructuring and using a full maintenance truck leasing program. He also managed the legal and accounting work for four separate leveraged buyouts.

Mr. Fleming also served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary for Barco of California and worked as a Consultant and Chief Financial Officer for Fleming & Associates. This partnership helped start-up companies establish systems of policies and procedures, and assisted them in developing banking relationships to finance their growth.

Mr. Fleming graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in Accounting and received his CPA from the State of California. He began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles.