PHILIP J. BARR, B.Sc. (Hons.), Ph.D., is currently the President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of AlphaOne Pharmaceuticals, an Alameda, California-based biotechnology company. He will serve on the Biotech
Committee. Dr. Barr is also an Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
at the University of California, San Francisco. His current interests are in the
use of pulmonary administered biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of
emphysema, asthma and cystic fibrosis. Dr. Barr is the former Director of
Molecular Biology of Chiron Corporation, one of the three largest
biotechnology companies worldwide. He has published over 180
peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature, and is a named inventor on
27 issued U.S. patents. Dr. Barr has significant expertise in the production of biopharmaceutical
products for the treatment and diagnosis of human disease. Furthermore, Dr. Barr has been
involved in commercial biotechnology since its inception in the early 1980s. He has a unique
overview position on current platform technologies within the biotechnology field, and will be
highly proficient in evaluating emerging technologies in the biomedical area. Dr. Barr is a
citizen of the U.K., and has permanent residence status in the US.
PHILIP A. BLAIN, BA, MA, is Telecommunications Specialist, and will serve as Chairman of the Telecom Committee of the Investment Advisory Board. Mr. Blain has had 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: 
DALE BRADLEY will serve on the Media Committee. As New Zealand's most
active film director. He has been a feature filmmaker for over 18 years, and has
completed three films in the last year, all of which are in the international
market. Of these, he wrote two of the scripts as well. Hi is co-founder of
Daybreak Pictures of New Zealand, and has been a national finalist for his films.
Mr. Bradley is an expert at reviewing scripts and making commercial
judgements of their quality, cost and likely financial success.
GRANT BRADLEY will serve as Chairman of the Media Committee of the Investment Advisory Board. Mr. Bradley is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Producer of Inter-Pacific Film Corporation of Hollywood, California and of Daybreak Pictures of New Zealand. Mr. Bradley has been a feature filmmaker for over 18 years and is currently one of New Zealand's most successful feature filmmaker. He currently has three films represented at all the international markets, including the Cannes Film Market in France, MIFED in Milan, and the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California.
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.
Dr. WEI GAO, B.E., M.E., Ph.D., is on the High Tech Committee. Professor Gao
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 modelling and applications in materials processing and performance. He has
published more than 250 research papers, a textbook, several chapters in books and an
encyclopaedia. 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. 
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 will serve on the High Tech Committee of the Investment Advisory Board. Mr. 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 serves on the High Tech Committee. He 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.
WILLIAM M. RAIKE, BA, MS Ph.D. (Northwestern University) will serve on the High Tech and Telecom Committees. DrRAIKE 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 areas of linear and chance-constrained
programming. 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 and Japan. For several years he wrote a regular monthly column
for BYTE, a prestigious American personal computer magazine. In New Zealand, he has
consulted to a variety of corporations. He is now Chief Technical Officer of several international
cryptographic software and hardware development companies in which Admiralty has invested.
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.