nmcreynolds@seanet.com

Mr. McReynolds is President of McReynolds Associates, Inc., a Seattle-based firm that advises corporations, non-profit organizations and trade associations on how to increase the effectiveness of their boards. Also, in the spring of each year he teaches an MBA class on corporate governance in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Washington and he is a frequent speaker on governance at business and non-profit seminars. For the past decade he has consulted extensively with governing boards on their organizational structure and effectiveness. He is considered one of the foremost authorities in the Pacific Northwest on matters concerning corporate governance.

He has been a member of nearly 50 boards over the years, including boards of for-profit organizations, non-profits, trade associations and higher education institutions, and has been the elected leader of many of those boards.

Currently, he is Board Chair of Washington Dental Service, the oldest and largest dental insurance company in Washington State. He previously chaired its Public Benefit Committee and now is a member of its affiliated WDS Foundation Board. He also serves on the Board of two other corporations: HomeStreet Bank, one of the largest privately-held banks in the Pacific Northwest, and Adinfonitum, an on-line marketing services company that has national clients like Bank of America and Northwest Airlines.

In the non-profit area, he is currently a member of the Board of Eastern Washington University and represents Eastern on the state’s Joint Governing Board for Higher Education; Second Vice President of Horizon House; Board member of United Way of King County and the Museum of History & Industry. He also is President of the Rainier Club’s Heritage Society and Historical Foundation and chairs the Emeritus Board of the U.W. Business School’s Business & Economic Development Program for which he was founding co-chair.

In the health care field, Mr. McReynolds served on the Board of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle for 17 years, including two years as Board Chair, and on the Board of Overlake Hospital and Medical Center in Bellevue, Washington. He also was Special Assistant to the CEO of Group Health Cooperative and then Vice President/External Affairs for Kaiser/Group Health in the Pacific Northwest. In the latter role, he also chaired the Public Affairs Management Council nationally for Kaiser Permanente and was Vice President of the Kaiser/Group Health Community Foundation.

On many of the for-profit and non-profit boards on which he has served, he has been chair or a member of the governance and nominating committee. In addition, he also served as Chair of King County 2000, a coalition of government, business, labor and other interests charged with redesigning government in the Seattle area in the late 1980’s.

Mr. McReynolds was Senior Vice President and a member of the four-person Executive Committee at Puget Sound Power & Light (now Puget Sound Energy) for 15 years. His other executive roles include being Regional Manager for the highly-diversified ITT Corporation for the ten Northwest states (7 years), Editor of the Bellevue American newspaper in the suburbs of Seattle (the last 7 of his 11 years at the paper), and Press Secretary and a top aide to Washington Governor Dan Evans (6 years).

At Puget Power he develop a public participation and customer involvement program that became the model for the electric utility industry and was the primary reason that the company was selected for the 1989 Edison Award as the nation’s best utility.

Mr. McReynolds’ national and regional trade association leadership roles include serving as President of the Northwest Electric Light & Power Association, which included the investor-owned utilities in the seven Northwest states and the western provinces of Canada; President of the nationwide Electric Information Council, and key chairmanships at two other national industry groups—Edison Electric Institute and Electric Power Research Institute.

He is the Past Board Chair of a number of organizations, including Eastern Washington University, Seattle-King County Economic Development Council, Bellevue Community College, Leadership Tomorrow of Seattle-King County, Seattle Center Foundation, Eastside Business Roundtable and the Washington State Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He also is a Past President of the 820-member Downtown Seattle Rotary Club and The Rainier Club in Seattle.

In the public sector he was a member of the Washington State Commission on Trial Courts, which was appointed by Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court and chaired by Bill Gates Jr. The commission proposed major changes in the state’s court system, most of which were adopted by the State Legislature.

Mr. McReynolds has received a number of civic and professional awards and honors over the years. Among the civic honors were the President’s Medal at Pacific Lutheran University for educational and civic leadership, the Hugh Smith Award for a career of outstanding community service and “Citizen of the Year” award in Bellevue. Among his professional accomplishments were 30 individual national and state awards for journalistic excellence. His most recent recognition came in December 2003 with the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Public Relations Society of America, only the second time that the award has been made in Washington State.