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Imad Aboukheir has been busy, founding a technology consulting firm. Global Dynamic Solutions Inc. focuses on providing systems integration and information technology solution delivery. Business is good with customers in Chicago and New York. Send Imad an email at imad@globaldynamic.com and visit the Global Dynamic Solutions Inc. Web site at globaldynamic.com.

Tim Augustine joined Atwell-Hicks as their vice president of corporate services. He was also recently nominated to the Board of Directors for Chicago's Open Heart Magic, a nonprofit organization that provides interactive bedside magic to children in hospitals. In February, Tim published his second book, How Hard Are You Knocking (Oakhill Press 1996, 2005) and currently writes an online monthly column for Inc. magazine and Fast Company, which focuses on the people strategies of successful organizations.

Dan Ryan was promoted earlier in the year to international director and remains COO of leasing and management for Jones Lang LaSalle. Dan and his three children (Daniel, Casey and Mackenzie) live in Chicago (Lincoln Park) and just returned from a summer family vacation to northern Wisconsin.

Richard Berg returned to Performance Trust Capital Partners as President/CEO, a firm he co-founded in 1994 under the name Betzold, Berg & Nussbaum, Inc. Performance Trust is an institutional fixed-income firm that deals primarily with commercial bank and insurance company investment portfolios, although it will soon add Performance Trust Insurance Partners, providing property/casualty insurance solutions to mid-sized companies.

Ron Wiltbank moved to Japan with his wife and four children as the finance director and CFO of the Japan division of Donaldson Inc.

Rebecca Kuchar is now managing director of K2SB, an Evanston, Ill.-based consulting firm specializing in branding and marketing communications.