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Apr 05, 2006 10:22AM
Gloria Felcyn 58 Director (since October 2002)
Lowell W. Giffhorn 58 Director (since August 1999)
Carlton M. Johnson, Jr. 45 Director (since August 2001)
David H. Pohl 67 Director (since April 2001) / President and Chief Executive Officer
Thomas J. Sweeney 55 Chief Financial Officer/Secretary
James Turley 44 Director (since February 2006)
HELMUT FALK, JR. From 1992 until 2000, Dr. Falk served as the Director of Anesthesia of, and served on the medical executive committee for, The Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin, Indiana. Since 2000, Dr. Falk has worked at St. Francis Hospital in Mooresville, Indiana as a staff anesthesiologist and has been Chairman of its Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. Dr. Falk received his D.O. from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in 1987 and his B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine in 1983. Dr. Falk is the son of the late Helmut Falk, who was the sole shareholder of nanoTronics and the Chairman and CEO of the Company until his death in July 1995. Dr. Falk is also an heir to the Helmut Falk Estate, which is the beneficial owner of the Company’s shares held by the Helmut Falk Family Trust.
GLORIA FELCYN. Since 1982, Ms. Felcyn has been the principal in her own public accounting firm. Prior to establishing her own firm, Ms. Felcyn was employed by Main Hurdman & Cranston from 1969 through 1970 and at Price Waterhouse & Co, in the San Francisco and New York offices from 1970 through 1976. Subsequent to that, Ms. Felcyn worked in the field of off shore tax planning with a major real estate syndication company. Ms. Felcyn received her B.S. degree in Business Economics from Trinity University in 1968 and is a member of the American Institute of CPA’s.
LOWELL W. GIFFHORN. Since October 2005, Mr. Giffhorn has served as the Chief Financial Officer and, since December 2005, as a member of the Board of Directors of Omni USA, Inc., a developer and marketer of computational analytical software products for the laboratory testing industry. Since July 2005, Mr. Giffhorn has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Imagenetix, Inc., a publicly held nutritional supplement company. Mr. Giffhorn was the Company’s Chief Financial Officer from May 1997 to June 2005, and has been a member of the Board since August 1999. From June 1992 to August 1996 and from September 1987 to June 1990, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Sym-Tek Systems, Inc. and Vice President of Finance for its successor, Sym-Tek, Inc., a major supplier of capital equipment to the semiconductor industry. Mr. Giffhorn obtained an M.B.A. degree from National University in 1975 and he obtained a B.S. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois in 1969. Mr. Giffhorn is also a director and chairman of the audit committee of DND Technologies, Inc., a publicly held company.
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CARLTON M. JOHNSON, JR. Mr. Johnson is in-house legal counsel for Swartz Investments, LLC, a position he has held since June 1996. Mr. Johnson has been admitted to the practice of law in Alabama since 1986, Florida since 1982 and Georgia since 1997. He has been a shareholder in the Pensacola, Florida NJ rated law firm of Smith, Sauer, DeMaria Johnson and as President-Elect of the 500 member Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association. He also served on the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors. Mr. Johnson earned a degree in History/Political Science at Auburn University and Juris Doctor at Samford University - Cumberland School of Law. Mr. Johnson is also a director and member of the audit committee of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly held company.
DAVID H. POHL. Mr. Pohl served as an officer of the Company from January 2001 to March 2002. He was elected President and Chief Executive Officer on June 13, 2005. Except for his service with the Company, Mr. Pohl has been in the private practice of law counseling business clients since 1997, and from 1995 to 1996 was Special Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General regarding investments in entrepreneurial firms by state pension funds. Previously he was a senior attorney with a large U.S. law firm, and held positions as a senior officer and general counsel in large financial services corporations. Mr. Pohl earned a J.D. degree in 1962 from the Ohio State University College of Law, and also holds a B.S. in Administrative Sciences from Ohio State. Mr. Pohl is also a director and member of the audit committee of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly held company.
THOMAS J. SWEENEY . Mr. Sweeney became the Company’s Chief Financial Officer on August 3, 2005. Since 2000, Mr. Sweeney has been a Partner in the San Diego office of Tatum CFO Partners, a national financial services firm. While a Partner of Tatum and for three and one-half years, Mr. Sweeney served as the Chief Financial Officer of New Visual Corporation, a publicly held development stage company in the telecommunications industry with more than 8,000 shareholders. Also while with Tatum, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Mitchell International, Inc., a 700 person firm that is a provider of information software, print publications and total business solutions. Also while with Tatum, Mr. Sweeney worked in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa on a project basis for an investment group that was organized under Astrata Group, Inc., a publicly held U.S. company, as it completed acquisitions of satellite technology subsidiaries. Earlier in his career Mr. Sweeney worked as an auditor for Ernst & Young LLP, where he earned his CPA certificate, and he also worked for the international consulting firm of McKinsey & Company. Mr. Sweeney earned his B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the American Institute of CPA’s.
JAMES TURLEY. Since joining CMP Media LLC in March 2004, Mr. Turley has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Embedded Systems Design, a global magazine for high-tech developers and managers, and Conference Chairman of the Embedded Systems Conferences, a series of electronics design shows. In addition, since August 2001, Mr. Turley has managed his own technology consulting and analysis business, Silicon Insider. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for ARC International, a microprocessor intellectual property company based in the UK. Mr. Turley has authored seven books on microprocessor chips, semiconductor intellectual property, computers, and silicon technology. He also serves on the board of directors and/or technical advisory boards of several high-tech companies in the U.S. and Europe.
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