James H "Jim" Hicks

Jim Hicks, 77, co-founded the Company and is President and Chief Executive Officer. He also currently serves as President and Owner of Digital Publishing and Scanning, Inc., a digital imaging firm he founded in 1994 that has a strategic alliance with the Company. Mr. Hicks has extensive experience with mainframe and personal computers, as well as digital imaging hardware and software. His career spanned 28 years with Cities Service Oil and Occidental Petroleum, where he managed many large and small projects for Corporate Computer Facilities. He was the Data Processing Manager for the FESCO Plastics Division of Cities Service Oil, located in Pittsburgh PA, for two years. He reviewed FESCO’s IBM investment tax credit on the mainframe computer and initiated a purchase/leaseback that saved about $0.375 Million. He then served as the Project Manager for the Computer Facilities Move Team during the two-year project to relocate the Corporate Data Center from downtown Tulsa to a new Technology Center. He coordinated with user groups, company engineers, IBM and other computer vendors and construction engineers and constructed a 1200 node PERT Chart to determine the critical path. The move into a new $60 Million facility was done in a single weekend and met all management objectives. Mr. Hicks then served six years as the Computer Operations Manager of the Corporate Data Center with five supervisors and fifty computer operations staff. He served as a staff sergeant in a United States Army Reserves unit from 1964 to 1970 and from 1987 to 1994. His formal education was obtained through studies at the University of Pittsburgh from 1976 to 1978 and the University of Tulsa in 1979. He is in excellent health and his outside interests include hiking, camping, rappelling and general outdoor activity. He is married to Judy and has two sons, Steve and Shawn.