in finance. Additionally, the Director, Finance, a certified
public accountant, is rumored to be in consideration for
the Vice President, Finance position when the incumbent
retires next year. The Corporate Lawyer has slightly more
than twenty years experience as in-house counsel for
USSL. All members of the negotiation team have neither
traveled to Japan nor done business with Japanese
companies previously. They are not conversant in the
Japanese language. They have been selected for their
positions and the negotiation team, in part, based on their
years of service working for USSL and its subsidiaries
and recommendations from their immediate supervisors.