| Directors | Investment Committee | Global Advisory Board | Partners |
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| Tom Kempner Tom Kempner is CEO of Loeb Partners Corporation and Director of Dyax Corporation, Fuel Cell Energy, IGENE BioTechnology, Intermagnetics General Corporation, Intersections and a former Director of Northwest Airlines. |
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| Kenneth R. Rossano Kenneth Rossano is Director of Active International and A+ America Corporation as well as partner of the Venture Investment Management Company LLC. |
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| Dieter Zander Dieter Zander was CEO of International Corporate Finance at Natixis Bleichroeder and Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, and president of Henley & Co., Inc., which he founded in 1950. Currently, he holds the position of Director of Alfa Wassermann and consultant for Envion. He is also a member of several supervisory boards, e.g. at Schering AG, Boehringer Ingelheim and Wacker Chemie GmbH, and has extensive experience in the set-up and management of international companies in the fields of life sciences, transport, energy and construction. |
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| Ian Harvey Ian Harvey is former CEO of British Technology Group and holds positions in various international IP organizations such as Intellectual Property Institute Board (Chairman) and the UK government’s Intellectual Property Advisory Committee (Chairman). He is Fellow of the Univesity of Nottingham, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Director of Primaxis Technology Ventures, Inc. |
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| Franklin “Pitch” Johnson Franklin Pitcher ("Pitch") Johnson was co-founder in 1962 of Draper and Johnson Investment Company, venture capital company, and became an independent venture capitalist in 1965 as the founder of Asset Management Company. Asset Management Company has made over 250 venture investments during its more than 43 years of operation. These have included Amgen, Applied Bio Systems, Applied Micro Circuits, Conductus, Hybritech, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Octel, Qume, Red Brick Systems, Remedy, Sierra Semiconductor, Tandem Computer, Teradyne and Verity. He was a director of many of those companies and is presently a director of three private companies, and a public investment fund operating in Eastern Europe. He is also a past director of the National Venture Capital Association and a past president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He has served as an advisor to several eastern European countries and has helped form venture funds in several countries. Pitch has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. |
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| Helmut E. Beckenbauer After graduating in Law, Helmut E. Beckenbauer, started his career as managing director of a family-owned company. He has been director of Knight Wendling AG and senior partner of Beckenbauer & Partners − Management Consultants. He is partner of Memoforme S.A.M. Monaco, as well as the founder of Interaxis Monaco Fusions et Acquisitions. Thus, he has vast experience in strategic management and M&A transactions. |
