on our agenda it is a discussion item it will be introduced by president hill and presented by amanda keller with the berkeley search consulting firm. >> good afternoon amanda and fta and so it's great to have you here. >> we as you may recall we retained an executive recruitment firm berkeley search consultants spearheaded by f ten with his team of amanda and julia who i assume cannot be here today to help us with our intergalactic search for our next executive director. and so they are here to give us an update of that effort. so i'll turn it over to you. thank you. good afternoon, president halbert. my name is amanda keller and as i mentioned, this is often how junior who is my leader and has played a key role in this recruitment effort. and in lieu of time i will do my best to swiftly go through these slides. so we'll walk you through the recruitment process, our strategy and we'll wrap up with where we are currently standing in the search. >> so our philosophy at berkeley search consultants we believe that a strong and diverse talent pool leads to strong our leadership. and our approach