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As senior (i.e., semi-retired) partner of our firm, Ray has over fifty years of diversified tax and accounting experience. Ray served as an internal auditor for a major insurance carrier, spent eight years with then "Big 8" accounting firm Peat Marwick International (now known as KPMG), served two years as Chief Financial Officer for an insurance and financial services holding company and founded his own CPA firm in 1976. When Ray's prior partner retired in early 1999, Ray began a new partnership with Peter, whom he has known for thirty-five years.

Ray is a native of San Francisco and attended the University of San Francisco where for three years he was a member of their nationally ranked soccer team. He received his BS degree in 1964 with a major in Accounting.

Ray continues to be involved in numerous University of San Francisco alumni projects and he enjoys staying in shape by bicycling regularly and keeping up with his six grandchildren. He and his wife now live in nearby Orinda (Parodi&deLaVeaga).

In the third quarter, the Don side poured it on. With left-fullback Ray Parodi, right half Pepe de la Rese, and center-half Fernando Lopez-Contreras as their defensive insurance, the forward line forced another penalty shot by Lynch into the same right corner for number two. Then right-wing Guilermo Hernandez crashed a lob cross by left-half Shaul Levi past the keeper for number three. The final twenty-two minutes were highlighted by a desperate San Jose effort to overcome the Don lead which was suddenly increased when left-wing Pepe Martinez stole the ball and raced forty yards, and punched the ball out of the air into the far corner (TheFoghorn).