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2004 Campaign Chair, Bob Magee

Bob Magee serves as President and CEO of American Shipping Group, Inc. American Shipping Group is a holding company that comprise the blue water domestic and military support shipping businesses of Saltchuk Resources. These businesses consist of:

Totem Ocean Trailer Express. TOTE owns and operates four ships and 1,500 trailers. It is in the liner, common carrier business connecting Tacoma, Washington with Anchorage, Alaska.

Interocean Ugland Management, is a technical ship management and ship crewing company. IUM today manages and operates twenty-two vessels.

Sea Star Line L.L.C., a common carrier operating between Florida and Puerto Rico. Sea Star Lines operates two combo vessels. This is a partnership with Matson Navigation and Taino Star Investments.

Mr. Magee is a board member of Cruise West, a shipping firm not associated with Saltchuk. He also serves on the board of the Thea Foss Waterway Development Authority, a real estate development function of the City of Tacoma, Washington. Mr. Magee is the current chairman of the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber and sits on the Advisory Board for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North.

Mr. Magee joined TOTE in May 1986 as Vice President of Marine Operations. Prior to TOTE, he was with Puerto Rico Marine Management, Inc., as Senior Vice President of Vessel Operations, 1981-85. Before that he was a manager at Sun Shipbuilding in Pennsylvania and served as a deck officer in the Merchant Marine for four years.

Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Magee has a B.S. degree in Marine Transportation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; Kings Point, New York, and an M.B.A. in Finance from Widener University; Chester, Pennsylvania. He studied Advanced Management at Harvard University.

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