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Steven S. Porter has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman since May 2005. Prior to joining our company, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Osmotics from its inception in August 1993 until May 2005. He continues to serve as a director of Osmotics Corporation. He has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Osmotics Pharma since February 2002. In January 1986, Mr. Porter and 2 other individuals founded GDP Technologies, Inc. (GDP), a medical imaging company, completing major strategic partnerships with Olympus Optical, Japan, GE Medical and Bruel & Kjaer, Denmark. From that time until August 1993, Mr. Porter served as Executive Vice President of GDP. Prior to 1986, Mr. Porter was the National Sales Manager for Protronyx Research, Inc., a large-scale scientific computer systems company, working with the United States Department of Energy, United States Department of Defense, Boeing, and the National Security Agency. Mr. Porter has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from UCLA.

Jeffrey Sperber has served as Chief Financial Officer since May 2005. Prior to joining our company, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Osmotics Corporation from June 2004 until May 2005. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of Osmotics Pharma since June 2004. From January 2004 through May 2004, Mr. Sperber worked as an independent consultant for various companies, including Osmotics. From March 2001 through January 2004, Mr. Sperber served as the Vice President-Controller of TeleTech Holdings, Inc., a $1 billion, global, public company that provides outsourced call center services primarily to the Fortune 100. From October 1997 through March 2001, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of USOL Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded broadband provider focused on multi-family housing communities. At USOL, Mr. Sperber led a successful public offering of USOL's common stock. From August 1995 through September 1997, Mr. Sperber served as a business unit controller for Tele-Communications, Inc., (subsequently acquired by Comcast). From September 1991 through August 1995, he served in various financial positions for Concord Services, Inc., an international conglomerate, most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of its manufacturing and processing business unit where he oversaw both public and private entities. From September 1986 through September 1991, Mr. Sperber was employed by Arthur Andersen LLP in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Sperber received a CPA license in the State of Colorado, which has since expired.

Dr. Peter Elias has served as Chief Scientific Officer since May 2005. Dr. Elias has served as Osmotic Pharma's Chief Scientific Officer since May 2004. From 1975 through 2003, Dr. Elias was a Professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he most recently served as the Vice-Chairman of the Department of Dermatology. Between his tenure at the University of California and joining Osmotics Pharma, Dr. Elias worked as an independent consultant and advisor. Dr. Elias has published over 400 papers and has received numerous honors, awards, and professional appointments as a result of his expertise in the field of dermatology. Dr. Elias received his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.D. and M.S. from the University of California, San Francisco.

Carl Genberg has served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development since May 2005. Prior to joining our company, he served as Senior Vice President, Research and Development and Business Development of Osmotics Corporation from August 1999 until May 2005. He served as President of Osmotics Pharma from February 2002 through December 2004 and as Senior Vice President of Research and Development since January 2005. Mr. Genberg has an extensive background in licensing and product development. From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Genberg served in a variety of executive capacities with Neuromedical Systems, Inc., and its regional licensees, Cytology West, Inc., and Papnet of Ohio, Inc., medical imaging companies that applied artificial intelligence to the analysis of pathology samples. Neuromedical Systems was a venture funded company whose major investor was Goldman Sachs Limited Partners Fund and which undertook an IPO in 1996 that raised over $100 million dollars. Mr. Genberg was instrumental in the design of Neuromedical Systems' FDA clinical study and the recruitment of key clinical investigators. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Life Sciences from Cornell University and a Juris Doctorate degree from the Ohio State University College of Law.

Russell L. Allen was appointed as our Vice President of Corporate Development in June 2005. Prior to joining our company, he worked as an independent consultant. Previously, he served from 2002 to 2004 as Senior Vice President Corporate Development for Cellular Genomics Inc., a private drug discovery biopharmaceutical firm. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Vice President Corporate Development and Strategic Planning at Ligand Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for concluding a wide variety of business development transactions including major strategic alliances with pharmaceutical firms. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Allen held senior positions with Sanofi Winthrop (including preceding corporate entities Sterling Winthrop and Eastman Pharmaceuticals), including being General Manager for Central American pharmaceutical operations and holding Vice President and Director level positions in business development and strategic planning. Prior experience includes 10+ years of marketing and business development related positions with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Procter & Gamble in Rx, OTC, and nutritional products. Mr. Allen received his B.A. from Amherst College and his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

 

 

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