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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Li'l Rascals



'...Gil Fuller, [the vitamin maker] Usana's senior vice president and chief financial officer, has been described as a certified public accountant but let his license to practice public accounting lapse in 1986, long before he joined the company.

...Fuller is the fourth company official to have to revise his resume recently.

Usana sales associate Ladd R. McNamara, who called himself a licensed medical doctor, quit the company's medical advisory board last week after The Wall Street Journal reported his medical license had been suspended in Georgia and Ohio.

"He had stopped practicing medicine for some time, but the important thing to remember about Ladd is he was on a non-decision making board - really an idea board," Fuller said.

Other Usana officials have claimed degrees they didn't have.

In March, Denis Waitley resigned as a director after acknowledging he didn't have a master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., that proxy statements claimed was his.

And Timothy Wood, vice president of research and development, changed his resume to show his Yale University doctorate was in forestry, not biology as he had claimed.

Fuller said Wood's dissertation was on a topic of biology and that he found it easier to describe his education by saying his degree was in biology....'


---forbes---