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In a world where technophiles and 25-year-olds run multi-million dollar Internet advertising and design companies, Gary Sproule, chief financial officer of Magnet Interactive, is an anomaly. At 47, he has spent 25 years in the oil and gas industry as chief operating officer and head of marketing and corporate finance initiatives for the 76 Products division of Unocal Corp. in Los Angeles.
Now he is part of a management team at the Washington, D.C.-based Magnet that is focused on taking the company public in the next year.
“I’m not a technical person by any stretch,” Sproule says.




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