Directors

 

Mark Tompkins is a private investor with experience in assisting emerging companies in Europe and the USA. His prior experience includes investment banking, management consulting and investment advice on an international basis. He currently serves, inter alia, on the board of Sodexho Alliance SA, the Paris listed food services and facilities Management Company.

 

In the past he has served on the Boards of two New York Stock Exchange listed healthcare companies, Abbey Healthcare Group Inc. and Apria Healthcare Group Inc. and on that of AIM-quoted Bioprojects International PLC.

 

Lyndon Gaborit , a chartered accountant, was formerly the chief operating officer (Europe) for Moore Clayton & Co, Inc. Before that he was Deputy Chairman and CEO of Infoshare Europe Ltd, an adviser to ConAgra Foods, Inc. from 1991 to 1997, and from 1988 to 1990 was general manager, group strategy for Elders IXL Ltd in London and Melbourne.

 

He also serves as Executive Chairman of Industrial Management & Equity Ltd, a corporate strategy adviser to HCEG, and as Deputy Chairman of Capital Accumulation Ltd, a holding company of financial services businesses.

 

 

Nicholas Brigstocke is a non-executive director of the Company. Between 1998 and 2001, he was Chairman of UK Equity Capital Markets at Credit Suisse First Boston ("CSFB") in London following CSFB's acquisition of Barclays de Zoete Wedd ("BZW"), where he was Chairman and Managing Director of UK Corporate Broking.

 

Prior to that he was head of the institutional equity sales team and a member of the equity management committee at BZW. He is also a non-executive director of Turbo Genset Inc., Azure Dynamics Inc., Bridgewell Group Limited and DDD Group PLC.