The Open Lands management team.

Thomas L. Williams began his real estate career in 1965. A graduate of Penn State University (B.S.), Mr. Williams has personally acquired, developed and sold several hundred properties throughout the United States. An avid cattleman, Mr. Williams has also owned ranches, feedlots, a bull test station, and is a nationally recognized herd and genetics consultant for many of the nation's premier Angus cattle breeders. He is a graduate of the historic Reppert School of Auctioneering, a member of the National Auctioneers Association and the Certified Auctioneers Institute (CAI) as well as numerous other real estate organizations. Mr. Williams resides with his wife, Trudy, in Tulsa, Oklahoma where they maintain a registered Miniature Horse farm and is a frequent traveler throughout the United States, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Dean C. Williams is a graduate of Western Illinois University (B.A., M.A.) and Georgetown University Law School (J.D.). A licensed real estate Broker in over a dozen states, he has managed the open space development of approximately twenty properties encompassing over 100,000 acres. Mr. Williams has specialized in some of the nation's most notable and historic land holdings, including Lockheed Martin's Stealth Radar Facility outside Ft. Worth, TX; the historic Skelly Ranch near Tulsa, OK; the Cox family's renowned Nine Bar Ranch outside Houston, TX; and the internationally famous L'Esprit Arabian Horse complex outside Louisville, KY. As Board Chairman of Open Lands, Inc. Mr. Williams has spearheaded a national investment strategy to preserve land with private funds in regions affected by increased development pressures. A member of the Tulsa County, Oklahoma and American Bar Associations, Mr. Williams resides with his wife, Angie, and their son, Hank, in Santa Barbara, California and travels extensively throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.