BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES A. CANNON Dr. Cannon was named President and CEO of RMA on May 29, 2008. He has served in that role on an interim basis since February 2008. Cannon got his start in Washington on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee followed by several years with United Technologies Washington, D.C. office. He has managed Cannon Consultants, Inc., for the last twenty years, serving such diverse clients as Los Alamos National Laboratory, The National Audubon Society, the California Energy Commission and the House Speaker's "Green the Capitol" initiative. Dr. Cannon also has served as CEO for Land Mine Detection Systems, Inc., was co-founder and Vice President of the New Product Development Consortium, a venture capital consortium, and he was Executive Vice-President for the Composting Council and the Composting Counsil Research and Education Foundation. Cannon earned his PhD from Stanford University, a MA from Rice University, and a BA from Columbia University.