MANAGEMENT
Set forth below is information regarding our current directors and executive officers. The directors are elected annually by stockholders. The executive officers serve at the pleasure of the board of directors.
Michael Cohen, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.
Michael Cohen has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our board of directors since September 12, 2006. Michael Cohen began his career as a paramedic for NYC EMS in 1989. He joined Americorp Securities as a Vice President in its mergers and acquisitions department in 1994. He was instrumental in launching a number of successful IPOs at Americorp Securities. He was recruited by Dafna Construction in 1995 as its CFO and played a principal role in its growth and subsequent purchase. In 1997, Mr. Cohen joined Citigroup as a Vice President of Corporate Finance and managed a department in the risk management division of Salomon Smith Barney. In 2002, Mr. Cohen founded National Stem Cell Inc, our operating subsidiary. Mr. Cohen serves as our Chairman of the Board and President as well as the Principal Investigator for most of our therapeutic developments. Mr. Cohen served as a director of Vanity Holdings Inc., a public marketing company (OTCBB: VAEV) from October 2007 to March, 2009. Mr. Cohen attended Skidmore College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Haifa University in 1988.
Kenneth Steiner, M.D., M.B.A., Chief Operating Officer.
Kenneth Steiner, M.D. has served as our Chief Operating Officer since May 19, 2008. Dr. Steiner has extensive experience in medicine and business. Dr. Steiner received his M.D. degree in 1979 from the University of Tennessee Medical School and completed his internship and teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 1980. Dr. Steiner attained a board certification in emergency medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Steiner developed a large multi-specialty, interdisciplinary physician group, The Family Medical Center, P.C., located in Woodbridge, New Jersey twenty-years ago and remains a physician, owner and manager. Dr. Steiner received his M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee Business School in 1998. Dr. Steiner was a contributing editor of The Encyclopedia of Health Care Management and has taught at the University of Tennessee Business School. Dr. Steiner has consulted for several companies in both medical and business capacities.
Antonio P. Moura, Treasurer
Antonio Moura has been our Treasurer since November 2007. He was also our Chief Financial Officer from November, 2007 to July 1, 2009. He has over twenty-five years of experience in financial management positions including niche market start-up companies. He has maintained a private accounting practice since 2000. From 2000 to 2006 he served as Vice-President of Finance and Controller for North American Outdoor Products, manufacturer and sales of instant shelters and garages. In that capacity, he was instrumental in introducing Wachovia Bank and negotiating a credit line of $ 3 million for working capital that propelled the company from $4 million to over $36 million in annual sales. He served as Financial Manager for USCO Logistics, owner of dedicated and public warehouses together with transportation division, subsequently sold (1999-2000). Mr. Moura was President/CFO and part owner of ADAC Technologies, Inc., manufacturer and sales of ultraviolet adhesive curing equipment.(1991 - 2000), and Corporate Controller for Dymax Corporation, a specialty resin and equipment manufacturer (1989 - 1991). He also served in various management positions for PTC Aerospace (subsequently acquired by BE Aerospace) (1981 - 1989). He was a senior accountant for Thomas & Co. C.P.A. (1974-1981) where he performed audit, tax preparation and planning including health care accounting and direct contact together with submission of health care cost commission financial reports. Mr. Moura received his B.S. in Accounting from the University of New Haven in 1974.
Steven Byle, Secretary,
Robert Kohn, Chief Financial Officer
Robert Kohn was appointed Acting Chief Financial Officer on July 1, 2009 and assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer on September 8, 2009. He served as non-executive Vice-Chairman March 2009 to the present of Clenergen Corporation, an alternative energy company producing electricity through biomass conversion. Clenergeny has developed “Marjestica” its own biomass intellectual property, through bio-engineering and polyploidisation (several sets of chromosones) of certain trees. This technology enables Clenergeny to produce clean electricity in the $2.3 cents per kilowatt range or the same price as coal. Clenergeny is currently is developing projects through multiple subsidiaries in India, England, Guyana, and Africa to produce electricity from biomass conversion and has approximately 35 employees and 40 consultants. The Company has three CFO’s in three countries. Mr. Kohn’s role is to provide counsel on power contract negotiations with electric utilities and end users.
Mr. Kohn has served as Chief Financial Officer of Animated Family Films from June 2007 to the present. The company operates film production studios in South Africa producing children’s animated family films. The company utilizes films as one medium to advertise their developed animated characters which it licenses to theme parks, and product companies, among others.
Mr. Kohn was hired as interim CEO/CFO of Global Realty Development Corporation, a public company on the OTC Bulletin Board and served from March 2005 to August 2008. His role was to liquidate four Australian real estate commercial development operations which were sold in December 2007. He prepared all annual and quarterly company financial reports,working with auditors and securities counsel.
Mr. Kohn served as interim CEO/CFO from February 2004 to March 2005 of Solpower the major shareholder of which was also the major shareholder same of Global Realty). He brought up to date annual and quarterly reports so that Solpower could trade on the OTC Bulletin Board; and he interfaced with accountants and auditors to complete all audits, and prepare financial statements.
Mr. Kohn received his B.B.A. from Temple University with an accounting major and became a CPA in Pennsylania in 1975.
Steven Byle, Director
Steven Byle joined our board of directors on January 5, 2009. He has been, since 2007, Vice-President of Technology for Dockwise, B.V, an energy company, the securities of which trade on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the symbol DOCK. From 2001 to 2008, he was Chief Executive Officer and Legal Counsel for Offshore Kinematics, Inc., a subsidiary of Dockwise which Mr. Byle founded and sold to Dockwise. Since 2005, he has been a member of the board of directors of Ocean Dynamic China, an engineering subsidiary of Offshore Kinematics. In 2008, he co-founded Texas Auto Superstore, an online automotive sales company. Mr. Byle owned a technology and development consortium, the Novellent Group, and was a co-founder of Internet Legal Resource Guide which provided online research for attorneys. Mr. Byle earned his B.S. in Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1991, summa cum laude, and was an Angell Scholar, and received his J.D. from the University of Texas Law School magna cum laude in 1998. He also attended Beijing Polytechnic University.
Roger Fidler Esq., Corporate Council
Mr. Fidler has been engaged in the private practice of law since 1983, specializing in corporate and securities law. Mr. Fidler was the sole director, President, Chief Executive and Financial Officer of Global Agri-Med Technologies, Inc., a corporation that is publicly traded in the pink sheets, since inception in October 28, 1999 until January 11, 2010. Mr. Fidler has previously served on the Boards of Directors and as an officer of several other publicly held corporations, including Diehl Graphsoft, Inc., D-Lanz Development Group, Inc., the Leonard Swindbourne Acquisition Corp., and numerous private companies. Mr. Fidler received a B.S. degree in Physics from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1972; a Masters of Science degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1974; and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina in 1977 where he was a member of the Law Review. He is a member of the bars of New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia and has practiced before the federal and state courts in New York and New Jersey as well as pro hac vice in cases before Federal District Courts in Kentucky and Florida. In addition he is a patent attorney authorized to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD (SAB)
Members of the Scientific Advisory Board do not participate in management decisions of the Company.
The functions of the Scientific Advisory Board ("SAB") are as follows: advising the Company with regard to recruitment, processing, storage, banking; research, and development of technologies; and commercialization, including banking, of allogeneic and autologous umbilical cord blood and peripheral blood stem cells as well as other aspects of the Company's business, including but not limited to platform and expansion technologies, therapies related to diabetes and cardiac disease and anti-ageing technologies; supporting the Company in research and development and in related strategic decision making by providing access to leading experts and opinion leaders. The SAB supports"outside-the box" thinking; and assesses the Company's innovation, business, commercialization, and capabilities.
Ian McNiece, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer
Dr McNiece received his PhD in 1986 from the University of Melbourne undertaking his thesis work in studies of blood cell development at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He moved to the USA in July of 1986 to the University of Virginia as a postdoctoral fellow. In August 1998 he started working at Amgen Inc, as a Research Scientist and then as a Laboratory Head. In September 1997, he left Amgen and moved to the University of Colorado as the Director of Research in the Bone Marrow Transplant Program. Subsequently, he moved to Johns Hopkins University as a Professor of Oncology and Laboratory Director of the Graft Engineering Laboratory from January 2003 to May 2007. This laboratory is responsible for all processing of bone marrow, peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) products and cord blood products for transplantation of cancer patients. He was actively involved in optimization of cellular grafts for patient treatment and the translation of basic research to clinical treatment. In July, 2007 he joined the Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami as Director of the Experimental and Clinical Cell-Based Therapies and is presently Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami. Barbara Nabrit-Stephens, M.D. Scientific Advisor
Barbara Nabrit-Stephens, M.D., M.B.A, Scientific Advisor , earned her Medical Degree from Tufts University in 1976. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1972 and her M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee in 1998. She served as a pediatrician in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee from 1990 to 1999. She served as Assistant Professor and Director of Education for the Department of Pediatrics, Meharry Medical College from 1985 to 1990. She served as Assistant Clinical Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine from 1986 to 2000. In 1999 she transitioned to administrative duties as Medical Director of Tennessee Coordinated Care Network until August, 2000 when she assumed the position of Medical Director for OmniCare Health Plan, Detroit, Michigan. In February, 2003 she became Vice President of Medical Affairs at Keystone Mercy Health Plan (KMHP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She left KMHP in May, 2005 and after six months assumed her role in Tampa, Florida where she served as Medical Director for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida from January 2006 to March 2009. She is presently an independent medical consultant.
Gundong (Francis) Pahng, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor
Gundong (Francis) Pahng, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor, is one of the founders of Zionex, Inc., a software development and consulting company based in Seoul, Korea, and, since 2001, has served as its Chief Technology Officer. Since 2007, he has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Comnext, a Japan-based joint venture company with Zionex, which provides Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning and Scheduling solutions. Prior to that, and from 1998 to 2001, Dr. Pahng was Senior Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Dr. Pahng received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ashoke Agarwal, M.D., FACC,
Ashoke Agarwal, M.D., FACC, Chief Scientific Officer for the Company's subsidiary, National Stem Cell, Inc., has been in private practice in the fields of Internal Medicine and Cardiology since 1983, and is affiliated with four hospitals in New Jersey. He was formerly Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Barnert Hospital (1999 - 2002) and Section Chief, Division of Cardiology at Passaic Beth Israel Hospital (1994- 1996) and at Barnert Hospital (1996 - 1998). He is a member of a number of medical societies and committees including the New Jersey State Medical Society (since 1984). He received his medical degree in Calcutta, India, in 1969.
Terry Dubrow, M.D.,
Terry Dubrow, M.D., Scientific Advisor and Medical Spokesperson, is Board certified in general and plastic surgery and has been in private practice for ten years. While his practice includes many different types of plastic surgery, Dr. Dubrow believes in early-intervention facial rejuvenation procedures, minimal treatment, and natural"invisible plastic surgery" results. Dr. Dubrow has published over 30 medical papers. He appears regularly on the Fox reality television show,"The Swan," which is shown in 57 countries worldwide. Dr. Dubrow received his B.S. (1980) and M.D. (1986) from the University of California School of Medicine, and his M.S. (1982) from Yale University.
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