After a long and successful career as the owner and CEO of a 200-employee design and manufacturing company in St. Louis, Fred founded Sage Consultants, LLC in 2003 to advise non-profit organizations on management, development and governance issues. He spent the first five years of his retirement career working for the Open Society Institute and has advised the Constitutional Accountability Center and its predecessor organization, Community Rights Counsel, since 2006, first as a management consultant and, since January 2011, as a member of CAC’s Board. Throughout his life, Fred has volunteered a substantial portion of his time to progressive and civic organizations: thirteen years on the National Board of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Past President of the ACLU’s Eastern Missouri Affiliate and Co-Chair of its National Development Council.  Fred has also chaired the Desegregation Monitoring Committee for the U.S. District Court overseeing the St. Louis public schools in the 1980s, was a Board Member of the Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center, and founded a non-profit child care center at his company’s headquarters.  Fred is a graduate of M.I.T., and has taught atomic physics at Washington University.