Nils Johansson
Robert H. Whilden III
Lawrence L. Michaelis M.D.
Fred M. Tresca
A. Duncan Gray
Albert R. Dowden

Mr. Boss is a Founder and Chairman of The Boss Group and is responsible for the oversight of all strategic and operating activities of the firm.

Mr. Boss has over twenty-five years of international experience in both law and business and was involved in over 70 countries while maintaining close involvement with U.S. companies. Prior to the Boss Group, he formed a private investment company and has concentrated over the last 15 years on entrepreneurial and private investment activities outside the U.S., where he has owned or owns major shareholder interest in various businesses, mainly within the EU. Prior to his private investment company,

Mr. Boss started an international consulting firm representing numerous well-know major and small U.S. and non - U.S. clients in energy, food, banking and consumer products as well as other industries. He was involved in most aspects of corporate activity, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Prior to consulting, Mr. Boss founded an international law firm in London and merged it into Houston based Vinson and Elkins.

Mr. Johansson is a Managing Director with The Boss Group and has a broad range of industry experience from light manufacturing & assembly, service, publishing, software to information & content distribution, both domestically and internationally.
After a 20 plus year career at Bell Howell Company (B&H), Mr. Johansson left B&H as their CEO and President after having taken their mail and document processing businesses private, in a leveraged transaction. Prior to this, he served as the Executive VP, CFO and Director of a billion dollar publicly traded company for over 10 years. During this time he was responsible for taking the publicly traded company private in an LBO with the Robert Bass Group in 1987, successfully led a series of refinancing and took the Company back public in 1995. During his tenure there, he was directly responsible for well over 100 M&A transactions, involving both public and private companies. Mr. Johansson was also the driving force behind the strategic transformation of B&H thereby creating a significant amount of shareholder value.

He currently serves on the Board of PERC, a wastewater treatment engineering, construction and operations company and is an advisor to Crestview Capital, a PIPE fund.

Mr. Whilden is a Managing Director with the Boss Group and is a corporate finance professional with extensive experience in finance and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining the Boss Group, Mr. Whilden was a Managing Partner of Buffalo Capital Partners, a private equity firm that he co-founded. Buffalo Capital Partners is a Houston based private equity firm that makes opportunistic private equity investments in middle market private companies. Prior to Buffalo Capital Partners, Mr. Whilden was with RBC Capital Markets in their investment banking division. Mr. Whilden joined RBC Capital markets in 1999 as one of ten individuals involved in the start up of the investment banking effort for the Royal Bank of Canada in the United States. Prior to RBC Capital Markets, Mr. Whilden was with the investment bank Jefferies & Company, Inc. as an Associate in the corporate finance department.

Mr. Whilden received his B.B.A from the University of Texas. Mr. Whilden also received a J.D. and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Houston. Mr. Whilden is a licensed attorney in the State of Texas and holds series 7 and series 63 securities licenses.

Mr. Whilden currently serves on the Board of Directors of Jaffer Holdings Corp. and Griffin Pipeline Services LLC.

Dr. Michaelis is a Founding Partner and Managing Director with The Boss Group and has extensive management and consulting experience in the healthcare industry.

Prior to joining The Boss Group, Dr. Michaelis was Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and later Chief Medical Officer, Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs, and Associate Dean of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He also was President of Northwestern Healthcare Corporation, an 1100 member PHO and Executive Vice President of Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, a 400 physician-member faculty group practice. In these roles he was responsible for the oversight of clinical care and quality management, research, medical staff credentialing, and graduate medical education and was intimately involved in strategic planning, risk management, and the development of Industrial-Academic relations for the Hospital and Medical School. He was the executive responsible for the Clinical Research Center at Northwestern and had a leadership role in the development of its Clinical Trials Office.

Dr. Michaelis earned an M.D. from Indiana University Medical School and trained in General, Thoracic, and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Virginia, where he was awarded a Master's Degree in Surgical Physiology. He has authored over 132 articles and has been a speaker or consultant throughout the US and internationally. He remains a tenured Professor of Surgery at Northwestern. He currently is also a principle of a strategic consulting group and a web-based billing company, and serves as a senior trustee/consultant/advisor to a disease management company, a major pharmaceutical company, two biotech firms, and a number of healthcare consulting companies, public investing, and private equity firms.

Mr. Tresca is a Managing Director with The Boss Group and has extensive experience in energy and the services sector, with an emphasis on corporate formation, senior management and financial aspects of the international energy business and related petroleum and services operations.

Prior to The Boss Group, Mr. Tresca was a Founder and Managing Director of a private investment and advisory company focused on energy and infrastructure opportunities in Central Asia, with special emphasis on Kazakhstan. Prior to his private investment and advisory company, he was the Managing Partner of Price Waterhouse Kazakhstan. Prior to Kazakhstan, he was a Certified Public Accountant with Price Waterhouse in the United States. He has extensive experience doing business startups, acquisitions, international taxation and structuring, privatizations, joint ventures, mergers, and corporate finance.

Mr. Gray, an international lawyer, is a Managing Director with The Boss Group. He has an extensive background in domestic and international corporate and natural resource transactions.

Prior to joining The Boss Group in January 2004, Mr. Gray was a partner in the law firm of King & Spalding specializing in natural resources matters, with emphasis on the emerging markets of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Mr. Gray also was the founding partner of the Houston office of the law firm of Mayer, Brown and Platt where he served as Partner-in-Charge of the Houston office and Member of the Management Committee of the firm.

Prior to becoming a partner at Mayer, Brown and Platt, he was a Vice President with Pennzoil Company in Houston and a principal in an oil & gas venture. He began his career with the law firm of Baker and Botts in Houston.

Mr. Gray received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and the degree of Master of Laws (in Taxation) from New York University School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in the States of Texas and Colorado, USA.

Mr. Dowden is a Managing Director with The Boss Group. Prior to the Boss Group, Mr. Dowden was President and Chief Executive officer of Volvo Group North America, Inc. and Senior Vice President of its Swedish parent company, AB Volvo. Prior to joining Volvo in 1974 as General Counsel to its North American operations, he practiced law with the New York based international law firm of Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance).

He serves as a Director of the AIM Funds, a large family of mutual funds, and Magellan Insurance, a Bermuda based Reinsurance Company. He also serves as Chairman of the Cortland Trust, a New York based money market fund, and on the Advisory Board of Rotary Power International, a designer and manufacturer off rotary engines. He also acts as a Director or Chairman of various New York based, and as well as internationally focused charities. He previously served on the boards of The Hertz Corporation, Genmar Corporation, National Media Corporation (NYSE), Annuity & Life RE (NYSE) in additional to that of Volvo Group North America, Inc. and a number of Volvo boards including those of its North American operating companies.

He is currently active with a number of trade organizations such as the national Association of Manufacturers (a Vice Chairman), the American Scandinavian Foundation (Chairman), the Foreign Policy Association and the European-American Business Council, among others, covering international affairs, trade and trade relations, regulatory and legislative advocacy.

Mr Ciampolini is a Director of The Boss Group International operations focusing his activities on healthcare investments.
Mr Ciampolini started his professional career with his family’s group of companies, which includes private clinics and diagnostic equipment manufacturing in Italy, France and the United States, where he was responsible for international business development. He joined Arthur Andersen in London in 1996, where he was a senior member of the healthcare corporate finance team, advising on mergers, acquisitions, initial public offerings and venture capital transactions.

In 1999, Mr Ciampolini founded NephroNet, a chain of independent dialysis centers in Italy, which was sold to Baxter in 2001. Mr Ciampolini is also a partner at Healthcare Capital Partners (London), a private equity and a corporate finance advisory boutique specialized in life sciences and healthcare. As part of his investment activities, Mr Ciampolini is a shareholder and director of several healthcare ventures.

Mr Ciampolini received an MBA from the Imperial College Management School in 1994 and holds a degree in economics from Kingston University, Surrey.

Mr. Maguire is a Director with The Boss Group and has a broad range of healthcare experience.
He is the founder of Healthcare Capital Partners Ltd, a UK investment firm, and Healthcare Venture Advisors Ltd, a UK based boutique investment banking firm specializing in the healthcare industry. Mr. Maguire was formerly the Head of Global Development at NMC where he was responsible for numerous acquisitions. Prior to NMC, he was the Co-founder of Andersen Global healthcare corporate finance practice. Prior to Anderson, he was member of Merrill Lynch investment banking practice.

Mr. Maguire serves on the board of a number of healthcare ventures.

Mr. Arcaya is a Director with The Boss Group and has extensive experience in international relations specifically with regard to U.S.- Latin American business.
Mr. Arcaya is an International consultant who has held various diplomatic postings as Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland, Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Philippines. He has also served as Venezuelan Minister of the Interior, and in October 1999, Acting President of Venezuela. He has received several decorations of Orders of Merit from numerous countries. He has held various positions in foreign trade and foreign affairs organizations.

At present he maintains homes and offices in the US and Caracas and acts as an International Consultant on U.S.-Latin American business, and certain other areas which his career encompassed.

Mr. Chang is an Advisor with The Boss Group and is a corporate finance professional with extensive experience with financing and mergers & acquisitions.

Prior to the Boss Group, he was a Vice President of investment banking with U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. He was involved in a comprehensive range of activities, including public equity and convertible offerings, private placements, leveraged buyouts, mergers, sale mandates and buy-side advisory services. Prior to joining U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, he was a Management Consultant with the Cambridge Group focused on developing growth strategies for Fortune 500 corporations. Prior to consulting, he worked in business development for MCI Communications and the Nutrasweet Company (formerly a subsidiary of Monsanto).

Mr. Chang earned a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from Northwestern University and Master of Business Administration from J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Mr. Anderson is an Advisor with The Boss Group and has extensive experience as a trial lawyer involved in business, media, construction and real estate litigation.

He is president of the law firm of Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy that has offices in Salt Lake City, Ogden and Park City, Utah. Mr. Anderson is past president of Utah Legal Services, Inc. and the Salt Lake County Bar Association and has served on boards of several charitable organizations in the community, including The Children's Center and United Way. Bob was a board and executive member of a large retail building supply company in the Rocky Mountain area and is presently a member of the district advisory board of Key Bank of Utah. He was Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Associated General Contractors of Utah and a member of the Courts and Judges Committee and former Chairman of the Banking and Finance Law Section of the Utah State Bar. He is a member of the Utah State Bar Litigation and Construction Law sections and a member of the American Bar Association Construction Industry Forum and Forum on Communications Law. He is an active member of the Rotary Club of Salt Lake, the Alta Club and the Cottonwood Club.

Mr. Anderson received an A.B. degree from Columbia University and a law degree from the University of Utah College of Law where he was a member of the Utah Law Review.

Mr. Morgan is an Advisor to The Boss Group and currently serves as Advisor to executive leadership and to early stage entrepreneurs in the healthcare industry.
From 1975 until his retirement from Arthur Andersen in September, 2000, Mr. Morgan led the health care industry team based in Chicago, whose practice encompassed more than 125 people and on a regional basis exceeding $50 million in revenue. He personally directed strategic projects for major academic medical centers, physician organizations, HMOs/insurers and has long-term client relationships with pharma and supply/service companies. He participated in numerous clients’ IPOs, strategic affiliations and M&A transactions.

Mr. Morgan’s 37-year career at Andersen included a three-year assignment in the Hague, the Netherlands heavily involved with merger and acquisition evaluation. Starting in the 1970s, Mr. Morgan played a significant role in developing health care activity in many of Andersen’s international offices and represented the Firm in national and international healthcare organizations.

Closely associated with Northwestern University and its Kellogg School since receiving his BS and MBA degrees, Mr. Morgan has been the recipient of the Alumni Merit Award and Alumni Service Award; he chaired the University’s major donor recognition group, the John Evans Club from 1995 to 1998. He has also had leadership roles on the Boards of Northlight Theatre, Chicago Architecture Foundation, University Club of Chicago and the American Board of Medical Specialties, which oversees quality and certification of the country’s 500,000 physician specialists.

Mr. Omlie is an Advisor with The Boss Group and has an extensive network of European Institutional Investors in which he has cultivated for over 15 years. Mr. Omlie is currently with First Albany.

Prior to First Albany, Mr. Omlie was the Head of European Sales and Trading for U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. He opened Piper Jaffray's Institutional Equity office in London in 1988 broking to United Kingdom and continental clients. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray, Mr. Omlie worked in Investment Banking in Public Finance, Strategic Planning and Mergers & Acquisitions for Dain Bosworth.

Mr. Omlie has a BSB undergraduate degree in marketing and finance and an MBA in corporate finance from the University of Minnesota. Mr. Omlie also has a CFA certification.

Mr. Wagstaff is an Advisor with The Boss Group and has extensive management and operating experience domestically and internationally.

Mr. Wagstaff has held executive positions at Equitable Life Assurance and Citicorp and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Vectura Group. He resided and worked in London for a number of years with the Citicorp group. After leaving Citicorp he concentrated on working with venture capital groups and building a hands-on expertise in turnarounds and other remedial company situations. He presently is involved in several such situations.

He currently serves as Director of Vectura Holdings, Barcalounger, DavCo Restaurants, Haydon Corp, Hoover Materials Handling, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, Sleepmaster and Zaterain's.

Mr. Whilden is an Advisor with The Boss Group and has strong operational and legal experience.

He has extensive experience in all aspects of financing, structural and transactional activities of public and private companies. Mr. Whilden is presently Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of BMC Software Inc. He spent most of his career as a lawyer with the Vinson & Elkins firm where he was head of the Corporate Finance Section and a member of the firm’s Management Committee.

Mr. Whilden also serves as Director of Tom Brown Inc. and W-H Energy Services Inc.

Dr. Zachariah is an Advisor of The Boss Group and brings a wealth of experience in the health and information technology field.

Dr. Zachariah is currently the Medical Director of Information Technology at the Mayo Foundation and a Professor of Medicine for the Mayo Medical School. He is a distinguished cardiologist who has also served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Mayo. Dr Zachariah is a recognized pioneer and national leader in the field of medical informatics and serves as a special consultant to major companies in this field. He has received a number of prestigious awards and has been a regular speaker at major national and international societies. He has authored over one hundred publications spanning topics such as Hypertension, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Diabetes, and Medical Informatics.

Dr. Zachariah has received a B.S. in Zoology and an M.S. in Biology from the University of Kerala, a Ph.D. in Microbiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology from the University of Washington and an M.D. from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.