Gary Furukawa

GARY FURUKAWA, President and Chief Investment Officer of Freestone
Capital Management, brings two decades of experience in financial advice
and planning. Before co-founding Freestone, he worked for 11 years at
Salomon Smith Barney as one of their top financial consultants
nationwide, managing assets of more than $500 million. As a Certified
Public Accountant, and having worked for the Internal Revenue Service
and Deloitte & Touche as a tax specialist, Mr. Furukawa brings insight
not typically found in portfolio managers. A Phi Beta Kappa and magna
cum laude graduate of the University of Washington, he devotes his
leisure time to his family and a variety of outdoor activities,
particularly his passion, fly-fishing.