At Cassatt, Bill Coleman, a former Air Force captain who has worked in tech for 35 years, saw the cheap wave coming more than a decade ago, when he was still at Sun.

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Wellstone also ran a TV ad highlighting a speech in which Coleman endorsed the senator and Bill Clinton in 1996.

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The three other officers suspended pending investigation were acting chief executive Ian Coleman, finance director David Taylor-Smith, and law boss Bill Norman.

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