ADVISORY BOARD

Dermot G. Coughlan, F.C.C.A. - U.K.

Dermot Coughlan is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Derland Holdings Inc., a private investment holding company. He was born in Oxford, England, educated in the UK, and is a Chartered Certified Accountant. Mr. Coughlan headed the Engineering Group of the Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation, and held positions with Alcan Industries and Cavenham Foods in the United Kingdom. From 1970 to 1983 he was President and CEO of Indal Limited and built it into a major Corporation manufacturing products for worldwide Engineering, Aerospace and Construction markets. In 1984 he founded and was Chairman and CEO of Derlan Industries Limited, a holding company with operations in North America and Europe in Aerospace and Industrial markets.

Mr. Coughlan is a director of CCL Industries (TSE:CCL.B), a worldwide packaging company and is also currently on the board of several private companies. He is a member, and has served on the International Board of the Chief Executives Organization from 1994 to 2000, and is a member of the World Presidents Organization. He also serves on philanthropic, community, educational and hospital boards.

Mr. Coughlan's recent experience includes providing mergers and acquisition advisory services to major industrial and technology companies worldwide.

Nelson Blitz, Esq.

Mr. Blitz is the co-founder of Executive Counsel and has a unique and extensive combination of experiences. Having practiced law for over 20 years, Mr. Blitz has been in senior executive management and board of director roles as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Chief Risk Officer for global information technology services and outsourcers, James Martin + Company and Headstrong Corporation.

In addition, Nelson was a senior partner in a major Washington D.C. area law firm, where he represented national and international technology, telecommunications, distribution, retail and building industry clients. His legal experiences include handling Corporate, Transactional and Governance matters, Intellectual Property, Business Controversies and International matters in more than 14 countries.

In his role as Director of Corporate Development for James Martin + Co. and Headstrong Corporation, Nelson was the senior executive responsible for raising $191,000,000 from premier private equity groups, Welsh Carson Anderson and Stowe and H&Q Asia Pacific. He identified, structured and closed a number of acquisitions in the U.S., Europe and Asia. As Chief Risk Officer, he was responsible for implementing and operating commercial, legal and delivery risk management for multi-million dollar technology delivery, offshore and outsourcing projects.

In 2001, Mr. Blitz spoke before the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Annual Meeting. He also spoke for the Northern Virginia Technology Counsel CFO Series - "Raising Capital in Difficult Times" and for various other legal, community, charitable and commercial organizations. In addition he has been quoted in several national business publications including, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Deal.

Stig Bøgh Karlsen

Stig Karlsen has been head of NOKA Holding A/S, a venture company engaged in shaping venture development in Denmark.

In the early part of his career, Mr. Karlsen was for a long time the CEO of Magasin du Nord, a leading Scandinavian Department Store Group. He joined the AEGIS Group in 1992 and developed the activities of CARAT in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, so that it became the leading media buying and planning company in the area. In 1996 he moved to New York as head of strategy to build up Carat in North America. In the course of his time there Carat acquired 7 regional companies in USA and Canada to form Carat North America, which is now one of the leading media-buying and planning companies in the region. He handed over to a US management team before returning to Denmark in 2001.

Vasilis Voudouris, PhD, MBA

Vasilis Voudouris is the CEO and Founder of Vereniki Solutions, a consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area focusing on providing services to the biotech, pharma and chemical industry. Dr. Voudouris has over 18 years of both domestic and international experience in large corporations (Bayer, Dow, Genentech, Eli Lilly) and small start-ups. Dr. Voudouris's areas of expertise include business and technology assessments, biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing, process development, supply chain management and technical operations. His experience covers biologics, small molecules and combination products as well as industrial and fine chemicals. Previously, Dr. Voudouris led the Process Engineering Department at Nektar Therapeutics, where he validated the Exubera commercial manufacturing process. He also played a key role in the development and manufacturing of combination products and helped form the business strategy to enable commercialization of Nektar's technology platform. Prior to Nektar Therapeutics, he was Head of Biochem Production Services at Genentech where he was responsible for coordinating the day to day activities in one of the world's largest biotechnology facilities. Dr. Voudouris also has had roles of increasing responsibility at Bayer both in the US and German/global headquarters where he spent 5 years through an expatriate assignment.