I have been a financial advisor in La jolla with a major NYSE firm for 27 years. I am a strong advocate of innovation as the critical path to saving the planet and to that end I serve on the board of CleanTECH San Diego and the CONNECT foundation and am active with the MIT Enterprise Forum. My greatest hope is for my five grandchildren to safely inhabit the planet when they have grandchildren. I have a BA from Denison University and a MBA from Ohio University. In my opinion the Amazon Kindle 2 is the greatest thing for voracious readers since the invention of the library card.