Your house is your biggest financial investment. Maintaining it is important from a health perspective as well as an investment perspective.

You have health care assets, and health care research, software, semiconductors and agriculture, ... Put it all together, stir in investment, and we can have a strong bioscience industry here. We don't have to be a big as San Diego or Boston to make a profound impact on the state.

We've heard it from a host of our clients, both from the broker-dealer and investment-management perspective.

I love my work. I get to do something different every day. I spent my adult life sitting on my butt doing abstract stuff. Now I'm up and about doing concrete things.

All those functions converge in me.

Any proposal from industry that seeks to promote both investment, improved services and competition is welcome.