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Littlefield Corporation has a lean management structure with almost no middle management. The Board of Directors consists of four members; one is also the President and CEO of the Company. In addition to the President and CEO, the corporate staff has only one other high-level position, a chief financial officer. A brief biography for each of the six key leaders is below.

	Carlton Williams Chairman of the Board Profile Mr. Williams is a founding principal of Herron Williams, LLC, forming the company in January 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Williams was an Owner of Littlefield Real Estate Company for over eleven years. During that time period, he leased and managed an office portfolio in excess of 1,000,000 square feet located both in the Central Business District, Southwest, and Northwest suburban markets. Mr. Williams also has extensive experience in business planning, financial analysis, and acquisitions and disposition analysis. Mr. Williams received his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in finance.
	Jeffrey L. Minch Director, President and CEO Profile Mr. Minch serves as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer and is a director on the Board. He brings real life experience in turning around distressed situations and building companies. Mr. Minch is a distinguished graduate of the Virginia Military Institute in civil engineering with graduate education in Finance. Mr. Minch co-founded, grew, and profitably sold a commercial real estate business, Littlefield Real Estate Company. As President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Minch planned and executed the strategy that Littlefield Real Estate Company utilized to grow from a start up in 1984 to one of the largest commercial real estate companies in Texas. In 1996, Mr. Minch sold Littlefield's substantial office, apartment and warehouse portfolios, in three transactions, over a five-month period. For the three years prior to becoming President and CEO of Littlefield Corporation, Mr. Minch was a private investor.
	Michael L. Wilfley Director Profile Mr. Wilfley is the Chief Financial Officer of Grande Communications, Inc. where he supervises a professional staff of 28 and is responsible for all finance, treasury, and accounting functions. Grande provides bundled telephone, cable and internet services to residential and small business customers in six Texas cities and has invested equity of over $500 million. Mr. Wilfley recently successfully participated in the company's raising over $136 million in high yield debt for the company's accelerated build out of its systems.Mr. Wilfley is an experienced Chief Financial Officer having served in that capacity since the late 1980s. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Financial Executives Institute. He is a past President of the Austin Area Texas Exes of the Alumni Association of the University of Texas.
	Alfred T. Stanley Director Profile Mr. Stanley is a graduate of Dartmouth College with a Bachelors of Arts degree. He received a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of Texas and was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. He founded Alfred Stanley & Associates in 1982 and has provided fundraising services to candidates and office holders in Texas. He was the Texas Political Director for Senator Bill Bradley's 2000 Presidential campaign. In addition to his fundraising business, Mr. Stanley owns and manages two office buildings in downtown Austin, Texas. He has served as a Director of Stereographics Corporation, a California based manufacturer of computer peripherals and Toddler U, Inc., a manufacturer of children's' shoes.
	Richard Chilinski EVP and Chief Financial Officer Profile Mr. Chilinski is an experienced and seasoned financial professional with thirty (30) years of related work experience spanning public accounting, manufacturing, services, consulting and high technology. He has held Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance and Controller positions in established companies and startups. He has worked for such prestigious companies as Peat Marwick, Bausch & Lomb, IBM, and Baker Hughes. He is a non-registered CPA in New York state and received a Masters in Business Administration from the William E. Simon School of Management at the University of Rochester.
	Michael J. Lindley Sr. Vice President Profile Mr. Lindley possesses over 20 years of acquisition and investment banking experience and is responsible for overseeing the acquisition of new bingo halls and new business initiatives. Previously, Mr. Lindley was an investment banker with Focus Strategies, a regional investment/merchant banking firm in Austin, Texas. Mr. Lindley also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Hotlink, Inc., a leading provider of web-based software marketing automation and branded merchandise. Preceding his tenure at Hotlink, Michael worked as Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations for Norwood Promotional Products, the largest publicly traded promotional products company in the U.S. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Lindley was Director of Capital Markets and Acquisitions for Littlefield Real Estate Company, a $250 million privately held REIT. Michael began his career as an Investment Banker in New York at Merrill Lynch in the Merger & Acquisitions/Merchant Banking Department. Mr. Lindley received his BA in Economics/Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and completed the Executive Education Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.