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Susan Shultz Joins OakBridge to Lead Global Board Search Practice

(Phoenix) -- March 15, 2007 -- OakBridge, Inc., an integrated, boutique global search firm, announced today that Susan Shultz, an internationally recognized corporate governance expert and founder of SSA Executive Search Int?l, Ltd., will join the firm as Partner to lead their global Boards of Directors Search Practice. Shultz brings to OakBridge over 20 years of experience recruiting statutory and advisory board members, for large and small, public and private corporations.

'Susan brings a vast array of expertise in corporate governance to OakBridge and is well respected for her consulting skills and proven results in recruiting board members,' says Andy Levine, President. 'She adds an excellent complement to our current executive search services and her experience will be an asset to our clients. We are excited that she has agreed to head up our global board practice.'

Shultz also founded The Board Institute, Inc., which has developed the only professional, independent, web based suite of tools to help organizations assess, benchmark and enhance their boards of directors and their committees.

OakBridge will leverage Shultz's expertise, backboned by a global team of corporate governance professionals, to better serve OakBridge clients in building and enhancing best-in-class boards of directors for their company?s long-term growth.

"I'm extremely pleased to be joining a firm with such global scope, integrity, and commitment to client success as OakBridge," says Shultz. "I look forward to helping OakBridge clients strengthen their domestic and global businesses through the enhancement of their boards of directors."

Shultz is the author of the critically acclaimed The Board Book, Making Your Corporate Board a Strategic Force in your Company's Success (AMACOM), and has been quoted regularly on board matters in numerous business publications including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and USA Today . She has also appeared on CNN as a guest commentator on board matters.

Shultz speaks frequently on the competitive advantages of strategic boards at national and international forums, including to The Business Roundtable, The Commonwealth Club, the Canadian Chartered Accountants, Montreal; the Financial Executives Int'l Annual Summit, the Economist CFO Forum, Tokyo; the Annual Semantic CIO Symposium, various CEO forums, and to many other organizations.

Among other activities, she currently serves on the board of Amazon Bank, chairs the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (NYC), Pacific Council on International Policy (Los Angeles), is a director for the School of Global Studies, ASU, and is past President of the Arizona Business Leadership Association. She also served on SBA's eight-member National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board and numerous other boards.

 
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