Age:		30
Marital Status:		Still trying to train Rolf to fold his socks
Occupation:		Auditor with the firm DollarsandhouseBloopers, assigned to Kwality Widgets account
Hometown:		Minneapolis, Minnesota
Luxury Item:		Palm Pilot, to maintain some sense of order

Angela Nell Retentive was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to parents Arthur and Lila Retentive, founders of the A&L Retentive Closet Company. "Nell," as she was lovingly nicknamed by her maternal grandmother, Orga Nighzed, was the second child of Arthur and Lila. She arrived on October 1, 1975 -- precisely two years to the minute after the birth of her older brother C.O. (full name, Compulsive Obsessive, but nicknamed C.O. by Orga).

While the Retentives adored their little Nell, the demands of running their rapidly growing business left them little time to spend with her or C.O. Orga, who was born in Oslo, Sweden and moved to the U.S. to live with her daughter and son-in-law after the death of her fourth husband, gladly took over the role of mother-cook-housekeeper and the children grew quite fond of her.

"Orga was brilliant and had a magical way of teaching me the value of efficiency," Nell recalls. "We spent hours together creating an Oracle database to catalogue my Malibu Barbie doll collection. She also helped C.O. start an at-home day trading business. C.O. used to worry about it constantly, but Orga kept him from going off the deep end - particularly during the Jimmy Carter years when interest rates went through the roof and the stock market nose-dived. Orga was truly amazing."

When Nell turned 10, her parents thought it best to send her to boarding school, as Orga's health was declining and Nell had stopped alphabetizing the soup cans in the pantry. They shipped her off to St. Catherine's School for Girls in Fargo, North Dakota where, in Nell's own words, she grew into a full-fledged "organization junkie." "I loved it when the nuns would do random checks of our sock drawers," Nell said. "I never once was caught with mismatched pairs or 'onesies'."

Nell went to college at Oberlin University in Ohio, where she excelled at math, and received her degree in accounting in May 1994. She was offered a job at the firm of DollarsandhouseBloopers, where she was assigned to the Kwality Widget account. Nell finds her work "invigorating" and, when she's not scrutinizing Kwality's annual report for the consistent use of upper case "C" in the word "Company," she can be found taking Feng Shui classes with her boyfriend Rolf.