X-Message-Number: 7166
Date:  Tue, 19 Nov 96 14:34:55 
From: Steve Bridge <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #7156 - #7162

To CryoNet
>From Steve Bridge, Alcor
November 19, 1996

In reply to    Message #7156
                     Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:03:56 -0500 (EST)
                     From: Charles Platt <>
                     Subject: Professionalism and other topics

> Steve Bridge writes, on the subject of professionalism:
> 
> >      All Trustees for Alcor's new Patient Care Trust -- where most of 
> > the *money* will be (more on this in a message soon!) -- are also 
> > required to be Alcor suspension members.  A minimum of 3 of 5 
> > Trustees must be related to Alcor suspension patients.  There are 
> > many more reasons for these people to continue to make secure 
> > decisions than to give the company to "take-over artists."
> 
> This merely tells us that the trust managers--who presumably invest 
> patient funds--are signed up to be frozen. It says nothing about 
> their qualifications to run a trust.

     Of course not.  That wasn't the point in this particular post, 
Charles.  I was discussing personal motivations for these Trustees to 
respond to one set of complaints, not qualifications.  The particular 
people who will be Trustees have not been officially voted on yet (we 
still need one more solid candidate), but one of the four candidates 
who have agreed to be Trustees is an attorney and one is a CPA.

     Management of actual funds will be done by professional 
investment managers, not by the Trustees directly.  As I said,  more 
details will be available as soon as everything is finalized in the 
next few weeks.  I won't further discuss this piecemeal.

> >      Alcor's past three Presidents (including in-coming President 
> > Fred Chamberlain) have had quite a bit of management experience.  
> 
> More vague generalizations. What is the management experience? I think it 
> is really counterproductive to make statements like this, because their 
> lack of specificity implies that there is something to hide.

     Vague generalizations were all that was necessary for answering 
this particular person.  But I can be more specific about my own 
experience, and somewhat less specific about Fred Chamberlain and 
Carlos Mondragon's management experience.

> The fact is, so far as I know, no cryonics organization currently has a 
> president who possesses management experience in the sense that is 
> generally understood by this term. 

     Interesting lack of specificity from YOU here, Charles.  What do 
you "generally understand" its meaning to be?   Either you know 
little about my background or the term "management" is understood 
differently by us.  By "management experience", I mean experience in 
a company's management positions.  Typically this means experience in 
managing groups of people and projects, including both budget and 
personnel responsibility.  It does not mean "used to be a CEO."

     My background includes 10 years of management experience in a 
large public library system.  My duties were management of the 
children's department in a large branch (4-9 employees under me at 
different times) and assistant manager of the entire branch (20+ 
employees).  On at least three occasions, I was acting manager for 
an entire branch for more than two months.

     Fred Chamberlain was a military officer with command duties 
(that's management) in bomb disposal and military records.  He also 
was a project manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Perhaps he can 
give people more details sometime.  And of course, Fred and Linda have 
run their own businesses in property management and real estate sales 
for many years.

     If Carlos wants to answer this question for himself, I will let him 
do so, since I do not have the specific details on his management 
experience.

Steve


Stephen Bridge, President ()

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