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About Bergelli Limited Bergelli Limited provides the art and design trade with high quality reproductions. We offer artwork that brings life to commercial interiors and private residences. Bergelli Limited was founded by owners of Gallery Bergelli in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gallery Bergelli shows Jeff Faust originals and based on powerful reactions to Faust's work, Bergelli Limited was established to offer these unique images to an expanded market. Most of my family still lives in Billings. It's great to go back, and the longer I'm away, the more I'm struck by how different it is. We love to go at Thanksgiving because we love to attend the annual Holiday Parade. Can you imagine the Wal-Mart Shopping Cart Drill Team; the meter maid brigade; and, of course, the sheep on flat-bed trucks? It's great fun and it's great for my kids. There's no place they'd rather visit. Q. You went from a large property, casualty insurance company to art? Tell us about this drastic career change. Growing up, I never would have picked an insurance company as a career or even as a business. I only remember aspiring to things much more exciting like acting or writing. I was part of the feminist movement and I found myself working for a traditional male-dominated company in a traditional male-dominated industry. But I worked for a company that was working hard to be progressive and to do the right thing. I was a single woman who was happy to work long hours and travel as needed. Being one of a few women working at a certain corporate level gave me lots of visibility, and I continued to be given new jobs to do. In the early '90s, I moved to San Francisco to run the California region. The role of the field offices prior to that time was essentially to execute corporate policy. As part of a restructure, I became president of the California region with lots of authority to develop and implement a business strategy for California. It was great fun and it helped me to really understand that what I like to do is develop strategy and build organizations. And I like to swim in big ponds. I'll always take the small fish in a big pond option. I met my husband, Stephen Berg, right after I moved to San Francisco. We started a family through adoption. Our daughter Lily was born in China in 1996 and we brought her to the United States on her 1st birthday. In 2001, Stephen, Lily, and I journeyed to Taiwan for our now 6-year-old son, Chen Carter. While the adoptions changed my life, they didn't really change my career. My husband has always been a fully involved parent, and we manage our businesses and personal lives as a partnership. Since he had his own non-art business, he was able to take Lily to work with him during the first 10 months we had her. Then another big corporate restructuring happened. My job was no longer fun and authority was being pulled from the field back into corporate headquarters. As a result, I resigned. When I met my husband, our common interest was art. Whether we were in San Francisco or traveling, we loved to look at art. We were looking for office space for my husband's company and a new business that I would run. We saw the most wonderful space that had previously been a grocery store in the charming village of Larkspur in central Marin County, just minutes from our home. We decided to lease it and open Gallery Bergelli. The large back area of the building was a perfect space for my husband's business. Our decision to buy the building has worked out great because it gives us lots of flexibility to run our businesses and raise our kids. My husband has always been an entrepreneur and is great at starting new businesses. I have a corporate background. We are each other's advisors and partners, and it works out really well. Q. What type of art were you and your husband first attracted to when you met? Have your tastes changed? We like to lo