There are three significant pieces of news I wanted to share with you about Executive Solutions in 2011. Many of the long standing recruiters well known to our industry have responded to the recession by allocating much of their resources to other industries in order to augment the slack in our own. We have chosen to remain steadfast in our commitment to leasing and finance, and have no intention of diluting our efforts by jumping ship to any degree. We want you all to know that.

I mentioned earlier that our industry has always been defined by words like creativity, innovation, and pioneering spirit, if you will. During the past 18 or so months, lots of leasing companies have downsized, gone out of business, or become part of other companies through acquisition. One of the resulting consequences is that many experienced and successful professionals have found themselves out of work and facing dismal re-employment opportunities within leasing and finance. In keeping with the approach of our founders, I am determined to come up with ways to help these folks while simultaneously preserving and making good use of their vast experience and historical perspective. Ultimately this strategy will strengthen and diversify the opportunities companies will be able to tap into. So many industries serve the leasing and finance world by providing essential services such as insurance, asset management, collections, software, platform augmentation, etc. Service Providers' insight into the leasing world and their contacts and knowledge cross paths in countless ways. By extending our customer base to include leasing and finance Service Providers, we will be able to expand our customer base yet remain consistent in our focus while being able to offer displaced leasing and finance professionals the prospect of continuing to work in a closely related field. Our industry will profit from the long-standing relationships and hard earned knowledge these tenured professionals have acquired. These displaced people will be able to expand their knowledge and begin a new career without having to start at the very beginning. The other side of the coin is that Service Providers will have access to a vast talent pool of "connected" folks who can transfer much of their experience, contacts, and knowledge base easily to a sister industry, resulting in a much higher degree of successful hires for Service Providers and a substantially reduced learning curve. Lessors and banks will obviously be the recipients of tremendous benefits as well. We're very excited about this new avenue and invite Service Providers of all sorts to consider taking advantage of this approach. Executive Solutions looks forward to conducting Talent Searches for Service Providers and we are very eager to expand our own knowledge base in the process!