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The Nautilus Group, Inc. has elected mass retail marketing and operations veteran Donald Keeble to its board of directors. Keeble was with Kmart Corp. for 29 years, including two as its president of store operations. During his tenure at Kmart, Keeble led the retail industry's largest modernization initiative, involving 2,100 stores, and guided the company's largest-ever sales, general, and administrative expense reduction program. Since his retirement from Kmart Corp. in 2000, Keeble has served as president of AKK Consulting, which provides management and organizational consulting to a broad range of businesses. He also is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Spirit Entities, a contractor for water purification systems for export.