Press Release 7-14-2004
FDG Partners with The Gerson Lehrman Group Council

ST. LOUIS, Missouri—July 14, 2004—The FDG Business Group today announced its
appointment to the Gerson Lehrman Group Council of business advisors.  FDG will be working
with the Business Services, Financial Services and Transportation  Councils.

“The new alliance with the Gerson Lehrman Group provides access to worldwide resources within
our business acumen”, says John Freeborn, Principal Partner of the FDG Business group, a
wholly owned subsidiary of The Freeborn Development Group. “The Gerson Lehrman Group
Councils are global networks of executives, physicians, scientists, engineers, attorneys, and other
professionals who deliver expertise and decision-making assistance to business, government and
investment leaders from around the world”.

“The Gerson Lehrman Group Councils are managed by Gerson Lehrman Group, an independent
primary research firm serving business and investment leaders in North America, Asia and
Europe” says Freeborn. “Gerson Lehrman Group founded the GLG Councils in 1999 to connect
the decision-makers who are shaping and funding industries, with the experts who have first-hand
knowledge of the technologies, regulations and dynamics that shape those industries”.
Gerson Lehrman Group has over 250 employees and serves its global network of Council
Members and clients through offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Washington, D.C., London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sydney. Each Council is staffed by
industry specialists who work directly with Council Members to handle all profile, project or
payment questions. Gerson Lehrman Group has assembled a team of people from a variety of
professional backgrounds, including McKinsey & Co., Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Bain & Co, Ernst
& Young, The New York Times, Monitor Company, Bloomberg, Chubb, O'Melveny & Myers LLP,
News Corporation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, AT&T, Pfizer, Merck, TRW, UBS, and several
others.

To learn more about the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils, check out their website at http://www.
thecouncils.com/.
Freeborn Development Group
Servicing Business
since 1985
FDG Global
FDG Financial