PHILIP J. BARR, Ph.D., is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Arriva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an Alameda, California-based biotechnology company. Dr. Barr has also been an Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco since 1985. Arriva focuses on biopharmaceuticals via pulmonary administration for the treatment of emphysema, asthma and cystic fibrosis. Other current scientific and commercial interests of Dr. Barr include: production and manufacture of recombinant proteins in yeast; the treatment of respiratory diseases using protease inhibitors; and recombinant proteins for oncology applications.
From his experience and involvement in commercial biotechnology since the early 1980s, Dr. Barr has a unique and valuable perspective on current platform technologies within the biotechnology field, and is highly proficient in evaluating emerging technologies in the biomedical area. Having been the former Director of Molecular Biology of Chiron Corporation, he has particular expertise in the production of biopharmaceutical products for the treatment and diagnosis of human disease.
Dr. Barr is a citizen of the U.K., and has permanent residence status in the US. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Birmingham, U.K. (1975, 1978), and won a Post-Doctoral Scholarship in Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada, a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature, and is named as an inventor on 27 issued U.S. patents.
PHILIP A. BLAIN, BA, MA, is Telecommunications Specialist with over 25 years experience in international telecommunications and electronics services. Mr. Blain's mobile expertise is expected to be particularly helpful in markets that are rapidly emerging from being regulated to de-regulation. He has held senior positions with Standard Telephones and Cables (an ITT company); Cray Electronics plc, British Telecom plc and Telecom New Zealand. He has extensive management experience in the management of new ventures, business development and business turnarounds, mainly in the field of communications and electronics value added services. He was founding Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Networks and International Ltd., a subsidiary of Telecom NZ. He was also a founding Director of Telecom Cellular Limited, having prescribed the fast growth commercial structure for the national network and service providers. He formulated (with a leading merchant bank) detailed investment plans for Pacificom Networks Limited, a prospective new venture for a third long distance carrier in New Zealand. He has directed business development, new ventures and change management activities for a number of large corporates in New Zealand and overseas. Clients have included Callnet (Canada), Datacom Group Limited, New Zealand Post Limited, EDS/Databank Systems Limited, ANZ Banking Group (NZ), Bank of New Zealand, National Bank of New Zealand, Westpac Banking Corporation, Fiji Post and Telecommunications Limited/Government of Fiji, GTE/GTE Hawaiian Telecom, New Zealand Fire Service Commission, Radiolink (New Zealand) Limited, Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co. Limited (Taiwan), Stanilite Electronics (NZ) Limited, Scollay Holdings Limited, and the Millennium Adventure Company Limited of New Zealand. Mr. Blaine holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from the University of Manitoba and a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Marketing, Lancaster University School of Management and Organizational Sciences (UK). He has held UK professional memberships in the Institute of Directors, the Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Public Relations. Mr. Blain is a citizen of Canada and New Zealand. Email contact: blain@admiralty.org
DALE BRADLEY is a successful film producer and director working in New Zealand, Australia, UK and USA. One of the most active film makers in the South Pacific for over twenty years, Dale continues to be in demand particularly for projects with international commercial sales potential. His leadership and creative skills combine with his ability to plan productions so that the maximum creative result can be achieved for the resources available. Mr. Bradley is an expert at reviewing scripts and making commercial judgments of their quality, cost and likely financial success. He is a New Zealand citizen.
GRANT BRADLEY has spent 25 years in the film industry mainly as Chief Executive of Impact Television, Daybreak Pacific Limited and Allegro Pictures. He has raised almost $100 million in film financing and has 23 film credits. His productions have included films shot in New Zealand, UK, Canada, Australia, Russia, France, Germany, and USA. He has worked with a number of the major lending banks in the industry including Imperial Bank, Comerica Bank and Bank of Ireland. He has consulted to producers around the world on film financing.
He has worked with international stars including Joan Allen (The Bourne Supremacy), Spencer Breslin (The Kid), Linda Carter (Wonder Woman), Billy Connolly (The Last Samurai), Joan Collins (Dynasty), Ralph Moeller (Gladiator), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future 1,2,3), Randy Quaid (Brokeback Mountain), Judge Reinhold (Beverly Hills Cop 1,2,3), Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers), and Ron Silver (Ali, Chicago Hope).
He is a New Zealand citizen, and a permanent resident of Australia.
JAN CAMPBELL, BA, MA (Engineering), PhD (Philosophy), is an international financial analyst and consultant, for many of the world's leading commercial banks. He will serve on the Energy Committee of the Investment Advisory Board. As an engineer and financial expert, Dr. Campbell has worked with power generation, hydro-electric, recycling, construction, heavy and light industry, and software development projects in many countries, including Armenia, Czech Republic, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Kyrgyz Republic, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, as well as many other consulting projects around the world. Dr. Campbell also holds a Diploma in Islamic Banking and a Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He is fluent in German, Czech, Russian, English, Italian, and French languages, and speaks Kyrgyz at a basic level. He is a publicly appointed translator by the City of Karlsruhe, and a former member of the UK and German Delegations (Commercial Section), in Bonn. Dr. Campbell is a German citizen and fluent in German, Italian and English.
Dr. WEI GAO, B.E., M.E., Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also Co-ordinator of Materials Research Cluster, there. Dr. Gao received his BE and ME in Metallic Materials from North-eastern University and Beijing Central Research Institute China, and a Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Oxford University, UK. He also spent five years as a Researcher, Principal Investigator and Technical Director of the Rapid Solidification Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. At the University of Auckland, he teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and actively conducts materials research in the areas of nano-materials and nano-technology, advanced coating and surface technologies, high temperature corrosion & oxidation, superconductors, electronic ceramics, photo-luminescence materials, intermetallics, rapid solidification, amorphous alloys, electron microscopy and microanalysis, and computer modeling and applications in materials processing and performance. He has published more than 250 research papers, a textbook, several chapters in books and an encyclopedia. He holds 5 US/international patents and 3 MIT Disclosures. He is currently on the editorial board of a number of journals, has been invited to give numerous keynote and invited lectures, and is the member of many professional associations including IPENZ, ACA, MRS, AMS, TMS. He is Honorary Professor for several overseas Universities. Dr Gao is a citizen of China and New Zealand, and fluent in English and Mandarin.
DAVID GRAY, BSc (Biochemistry, with Honours), MSc (Biochemical Engineering), has 20 years experience in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industry. He will serve on the Biotech Committee of our Investment Advisory Board. As a specialist in biotech research, equipment design and manufacturing, he has worked with some of the most advanced companies in the UK, the US and Switzerland. He has numerous patents and publications to his credit. Mr. Gray is a citizen of the UK and the US.
RICHARD HELFRICH is Founder, President and CEO of InterSemi Corporation, a Silicon Valley California based company that develops and markets semiconductors and related software. In addition, he is also Founder and CEO of InterFoundry, a company in the business of manufacturing semiconductors under contract for other companies. Mr. Helfrich was a co-founder of Vitesse (a NASDAQ company with ticker: VTSS) now valued at over $4 billion. He was Vice President of Sales and Marketing of California Micro Devices (another NASDAQ company) which manufactures and sells semiconductors. He was Manager of Market Development at Advanced Micro Devices (a $2.5 billion New York Stock Exchange listed company) and Manager of Microelectronics at Northrop Corporation, California. Mr. Helfrich has also served in management roles at Monolithic Memories Inc. and Hughes Aircraft, as well as being President and CEO of Multinational Electronics Corp. a business and marketing services organization serving the semiconductor and computer industry. Mr. Helfrich has published many papers on business, marketing and technical subjects and has several patents. He has taught business and marketing classes at University of California Extension, and has an MSEE from CSULA and a BA in Physics from Occidental College. Mr. Helfrich is a US Citizen.
CORLEY PHILLIPS is an investor in, and advisor to, early stage high technology companies. From 1990 until its merger with State of the Art (NASDAQ: SOTA) at the end of 1994, he served as President and CEO of Manzanita Software Systems, an accounting software company based in Roseville, CA. From 1984 to 1990, he was President and co-founder of Grafpoint, a communications software company based in San Jose, California which was subsequently merged with White Pine Software (NASDAQ: WPNE). He previously held various sales and marketing positions with Envision Technology and Hewlett-Packard.
Mr. Phillips currently serves on the boards of CAM Data Systems (NASDAQ: CADA), a Retail Automation software company based in Fountain Valley, CampusEngine.com, a web portal company in Folsom, Real Time Innovations, a software development tools company based in Sunnyvale, and Knowledgepoint, a Human Resource software company based in Petaluma. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Storactive, a backup software company based in Marina del Rey.
Corley is also an active member of the Sierra Angels, which provide early stage financing to companies in the Northern Nevada and Northern California area. Based in Incline Village, NV, this group of angel investors provides a forum for entrepreneurs and investors to come together, with a focus on early-stage financing. The objective of the Sierra Angels is to facilitate high quality business development for the community and high quality investment alternatives for angels. Mr. Phillips holds a BSEE and MSEE from Washington University, St. Louis, and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He is a US Citizen.
WILLIAM M. RAIKE, BA, MS Ph.D. (Northwestern University), has served as Professor at two leading universities in the US (the University of Texas at Austin and the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California). He is the author of numerous technical articles in the area of Operations Research and other fields of applied mathematics. Dr Raike has established three high tech companies operating in the field of electronics research and development, and manufacturing, in the area of high tech telephone voice and data transmission. He has worked internationally as a consultant and independent computer software developer in the US, Japan and New Zealand. For several years he wrote a regular monthly column for BYTE, a prestigious American personal computer magazine. In New Zealand, he has consulted for a variety of corporations, and has co-founded and acted as Chief Technical Officer of several international security software and hardware development companies in which Admiralty has invested. He is a New Zealand citizen, and fluent in English and Japanese.
TOM TAYLOR, BA, MA, MBA, JD, is a lawyer and film producer. He is President of T Squared Productions, Los Angeles, providing production, financing, distribution, business and legal affairs consulting services to independent film producers. He has been Executive Producer of many successful feature films, including Fried Green Tomatoes, starring Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates for Universal/Rank/ASCII, Pyrates, starring Kevin Bacon for Live/Rank, and Sweethearts, starring Janeane Garofalo for Trimark/PFG. He was Producer of Kissing Miranda for HBO. He has acted as Project Consultant for Reversal of Fortune starring Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close for Warner Bros./Shochiku-Fuji, and 3 Ninja Kids for Disney/DeLaurentiis. Previously, he was Senior Vice President, Production and Business Affairs of Act III Productions, Los Angeles, where he managed production, business, financial and legal affairs for motion picture division of diversified entertainment company. Dr Taylor was also Vice President in the Office of the Chairman of MGM / United Artists, where he acted as advisor to the Chairman of the Board in wide range of projects, including acquisition of MGM assets and personnel, relocation of the MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group and related reorganization of MGM/UA Telecommunications operations. He was Vice President at United Artists Corporation, Beverly Hills, California, where he advised and assisted senior management in the startup organization of the new United Artists. Dr. Taylor is a licensed attorney, and has practiced in the Motion Picture Department of a top Los Angeles law firm. He holds Doctor of Jurisprudence and Master of Business Administration degrees from Stanford University, a Master of Arts degree (with honours) from Magdalene College of Cambridge University, England, and a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Distinction from the University of Michigan. He is a US Citizen.
MARK S. VAN HORNE, MBA, BA, is a respected international consultant. His business expertise is focused on finance, real estate and technology. He is the Managing Partner of a US investment partnership with real estate interests in Texas and California. Mr. van Horne was Vice President of Finance for seven years with one of the largest investment firms in Saudi Arabia, with total assets in excess of $3 billion. In this capacity, he was in the Middle East for five years developing and supervising projects in eight countries, with a value of over $800 million. He then headed its Asian office in Hong Kong for two years, where he developed major projects in Hong Kong, Macau, China and Malaysia with a total value of $300 million. These projects included urban resort hotel properties, residential developments, and agricultural enterprises. Responsibility for these projects required a wide range of property investment and management skills from identifying, evaluating and financing investments to planning, costing, site location, contracting, financing and construction management. As an investment banker, Mr. van Horne has worked with many clients in the start up and venture capital phase. These have included business ventures in the areas of automation, video technology and Computer Aided Design (CAD) software development. He has established companies developing medical equipment and computer controlled laser manufacturing techniques, based to technology developed by research laboratories at the University of Texas. These research and development efforts have produced several important commercial applications including an eximer laser used for eye surgery, a non-invasive portable lead paint detector, a selective laser sintering device for the machine and manufacturing industries. He has been closely involved in early phase energy projects, including the licensing of new alternate fuel systems for automobiles, methods to increase pipeline efficiency, and techniques of liquefying and transporting natural gas at low pressures and normal temperatures. In his energy projects, Mr. van Horne has worked in cooperation with the Energy Research Center at the University of Oklahoma. This experience has allowed him to see a wide range of opportunities in technology and energy from the prospective of manager, financial professional and investor.
Mr. van Horne has extensive prior international experience, having lived and worked throughout the Middle East and Far East for nearly ten years. He has been responsible for projects with Admiralty in Sierra Leone, Bulgaria, Armenia and the Republic of Moldova. Mr. Van Horne has a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration with emphasis on finance and real estate and a Bachelor of Art (BA) degree in Economics from Stanford University. He is a US citizen.