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Mr. Poole is president and CEO of JAMS, the premier provider of mediation and arbitration services in the United States. Prior to joining JAMS, Mr. Poole was CEO at Thomson Elite, part of The Thomson Corporation. Under his leadership Thomson Elite grew to be one of the most successful suppliers to the legal industry with revenues exceeding U.S. $125 million. Mr. Poole was COO of Elite Information Systems from 1995-1998, chair and CEO of Elite Information Group from 1999 to 2003, and president and CEO of Thomson Elite from 2003-2006. Before joining Elite, he was executive director of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. Latham is one of the largest law firms in the world, with more than 2,100 attorneys in 24 offices around the globe. He served as executive director from 1993 to 1995, and prior to that was the firm's director of technology from 1989 to 1993. Mr. Poole is the recipient of the 2002 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He earned his BA in Economics from Harvard University in 1979 and his MBA in Computers and Marketing from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in 1984. | 