Team

Director

Trevor Michael, Chairman/ Director of Global Business Development, is a business development specialist with extensive capital markets and deal structuring experience. Mr. Michael specializes in identifying globally scalable companies and designing innovative solutions to grow them into large-scale corporations. His capital markets experience has enabled him to create tailored strategies that re-structure these companies, making them more tax efficient as well as highly lucrative. Now an integral part of the creation and growth of various different companies world-wide, his past experience includes senior asset management positions at CIBC World Markets, Lehman Brothers, Standard Bank, and Graham Capital Management; and managing director and business development roles with both Mistral Capital and Weston Capital. He holds a proven track record for delivering excess returns on currency, equity, fixed income and commodities in all market environments and possesses a vast array of experience in the development of hedge fund management companies, capital raising, and the design and implementation of structured transactions. Mr. Michael holds an HBA from The University of Western Ontario.


Management Team

Dr. Douglas Beynon, CEO, has over twenty five years of senior management and technology sector experience. He is currently advisor and board member of a number of environmental and technology companies. Dr. Beynon is past President & CEO at Unisearch Associates Inc., a manufacturer of spectroscopic instruments for environmental monitoring and process control. Prior to this, he worked for five years as OCETA's regional Vice President. Previously, he was President and Chief Operating Officer at Mindflight Corporation & Mindflight Technology Inc. and Waterloo Engineering Software. Dr. Beynon is a Board member of BIPSIM Inc., Waterloo Engineering Software and OCETA. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Metalumen and Tangam Technologies. He is also a member of the Dean of Engineering Advisory Council and the Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology ("CBET") Advisory Council at the University of Waterloo. He Chairs the OCETA Board and is founding Chair of the CBET Advisory Council.


Eric M. Leslie (BA), COO, began working in 1978 in the oil & gas industry as a negotiator for both major and small independent oil and gas companies, including PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. (now Encana Corporation), Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Ltd. and Phoenix Resources Ltd. At the age of 25 Mr. Leslie founded Ranchero Resources Ltd., an oil and gas exploration company which specialized in acquiring producing oil properties. In 1991 Mr. Leslie founded Merchant Equities Capital Corp. and then in 1995 co-founded Merchant Equities Investments Inc., a private company that provided venture capital financing, financial workouts and restructuring consulting management services primarily to early stage companies. Merchant Equities led a variety of transactions including reverse takeovers, initial prospectus offerings, takeover bids and the sale of assets and vend-ins to Capital Pool Corporations. Most of the transactions that Merchant Equities was involved with were in the range of $500,000 to $2 million in size with one transaction valued at over $500 million. Merchant Equities facilitated taking 20+ companies public on various stock exchanges in Canada. During his tenure as President of Merchant Equities, Mr. Leslie gained extensive public company experience serving on the board of directors of over a dozen publicly traded companies. Over the past 5 years Mr. Leslie has served as a senior officer and director of a number of private and public oil & gas exploration companies. Mr. Leslie is currently a director of Canadian Quantum Energy Corporation, a public oil & gas exploration company that is active in the prolific high profile Quebec Lowlands shale play.


Advisory Team

Gary Bartholomew - Technology and Capital Markets, specializes in building innovative technology companies, both in the private and public sector. With an extensive technology background, he has built new technology services businesses created to change industries by bringing new efficiencies and redefining competitive barriers to entry. Focus has been on developing a strong performance-driven culture with accountability, while attracting and retaining the best people and compensating them accordingly. Mr. Bartholomew's past successes as the founder, CEO and Chairman include Cervus Financial Group (TSX:CFG), Basis100 (TSX:BAS), iGate Technologies, Design Recovery, Read Attachments Inc., Buhl Automatic Inc., He also has ample experience doing advisory work for RBC Financial, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Livingston and International Verifact. Mr. Bartholomew holds a BSc from the University of Waterloo, 1983.


Max Rockwell - Capital Markets and GCC Business Development, is the founder of Global Arabian Company WLL, a Kuwaiti consultancy firm which represents North American companies and fund opportunities to its clientele in the Gulf. Mr. Rockwell has been traveling to the Gulf consistently since 1995 representing high net-worth individuals, family offices and institutions in the Gulf with regard to their respective North American investments.  He has focused on structuring financing packages, arranging private placement funding and developing relationships between North American companies and GCC local partners and investors. Mr. Rockwell has worked for several Wall Street firms, including Shearson Lehman Brothers and PaineWebber Group. He has gained valuable experience and built a loyal network and following, both in North America and in the Gulf.


Robert Marshall - Western Canada Exploration and Aboriginal Relations, B Sc. Civil Engineering, M Eng), is a professional engineer registered in the province of Alberta. Mr. Marshall is President of RGM Engineering Ltd. During the period 2003 through Feb. 2008, Mr. Marshall, held the position of Technical Director for the Aboriginal Pipeline Group, a 100% Aboriginal owned entity owning one-third of the proposed Mackenzie Gas Pipeline (estimated to cost $ 16.2 Billion Cdn.). In his role as Technical Director, Mr. Marshall represented APG in all technical and environmental matters related to the Mackenzie Gas Project. He has over thirty-five years of experience in infrastructure development, primarily in management, engineering and construction of pipeline transmission systems worldwide. Mr. Marshall participated in the design and construction of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the 1970s as well as the preparation of one of the first applications for a natural gas pipeline up the Mackenzie Valley. He spent several years in South America as a Director of Engineering for TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. and later as Manager of Construction for the Gas Pacifico Pipeline which traversed the Andes Mountains between Argentina and Chile. During the period from 2000 to 2003, Mr. Marshall was seconded by TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. to the Government of NWT, Minerals, Oil & Gas Division, as a senior pipeline advisor helping the government to prepare for their role in a future Mackenzie Gas Pipeline. Mr. Marshall is currently a Director of Empire Industries Inc., a large steel fabrication / oil & gas service company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. In addition, he is a partner and Director of RAIMS International Inc. an oil & gas service company which provides safety and remote medical services to the exploration, pipeline and oil & gas facilities sectors.


Alexandre Vorobiev, M.A.Sc, is President and CEO of Laser Diagnostic Instruments International Inc. (LDI3) since 2005. Alexandre has earned a Diploma in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Novosibirsk State University in 1992, and a Master of Applied Sciences in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo in 1998. From 1990 to 1999 he conducted research in the areas of Logic Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Software Supervision and Software Reliability. From 1995 to 2001 Alexandre focused on project management and industrial application of automated specification-driven software verification and Formal Methods. Alexandre has joined LDI3 in 2003 and has been leading LDI3 as its President and CEO since 2005, focusing on corporate operations, contract negotiations, business development, and applications research related to utilization of the core LDI Group technologies, including application FLS LiDARs to environmental monitoring, resources prospecting, pipeline integrity monitoring. While with LDI3, Alexandre has established durable connections with industrial partners, non-profit, government and environmental research bodies, and, in collaboration with academic and government organizations and industrial partners, won grants to further research and promote utilization of FLS LiDAR and fluorescence analysis technology. Alexandre completed first sales of FLS LiDAR services and fluorescence analyzers marketed by LDI3. He has organized and lead to successful completion all of airborne and shipborne FLS LiDAR missions conducted in North America.


Dr. Sergey Babichenko - LiDAR Scientific Research and Development, is co-founder, initiator and co-developer of LDI key product concepts and designs. He has more than 25 years of experience in research, development, engineering and management of scientific groups, projects and private companies. Sergey worked for 17 years for Estonian Academy of Sciences as a senior scientist leading the development of Laser Remote Sensing techniques. He has a large network of professional and personal contacts worldwide in the inter-government R&D, industrial and academic circles. Sergey serves as a Member of the Board of European Technology Platform “Photonics 21” and as a Principal partner in several running European collaborative research projects related to civil security and environmental protection. Sergey holds Ph.D. degree in quantum electronics, his list of professional credits includes two monographs, 111 scientific publications and 9 patents. He was awarded by Gold Medals of 49th and 51st World Exhibitions of Inventions, Research and Industrial Innovations (Brussels, Belgium, 1999 and 2002).


Dr. Larisa Poryvkina - LiDAR Scientific Research and Development, is co-founder and principal developer of key LDI product concepts and analytical techniques. She has extensive experience in research, development, and engineering in applied spectroscopy, laser remote sensing and fluorescence technologies in industrial applications. Dr. Poryvkina worked as a senior scientist for Estonian Academy of Sciences, successfully managed number of national and international research projects, and has a wide network of professional contacts in industries and universities over Europe. She supervises research activity in LDI since 2001 and manages collaborative projects at the Competence Center of Tallinn University of Technologies. Larisa holds Ph.D. degree in optics and spectroscopy. She is a principal author of 85 scientific publications and 6 patents. She is a honorable recipient of OMPI-WIPO medal of World Intellectual Property Organization and diploma of “Best Female Inventor 1999”, Geneva, Switzerland, 1999.


Endel Siff - Business Development Europe and Russia, is an entrepreneur from Tallinn, Estonia. He was one of the visionaries who after the collapse of the Soviet Union saw the potential and capitalized one of Estonia's main strategic resources – its geographical position, by establishing the oil transit terminal - Pakterminal as a joint venture between the Dutch Royal Vopak and N-Terminal Group Ltd. in June 1992. The venture enabled him to utilize his entrepreneurial spirit, expertise and extensive contacts that he had gained in his previous post as an executive engineer in charge of exports at the USSR Foreign trade organization ESTIMPEX. The first stage of the terminal became operational within six months, processing fuel oil transported from Russian refineries by rail to Estonia and then shipped to international markets. The venture soon grew into the country's most profitable companies as well as the leading oil transit enterprise in the whole Baltic Sea region. At the end of 2007, Vopak acquired the remaining 50% shareholding from Mr. Siff and his partners and by today has in replacement established a new joint-venture called Vopak E.O.S. with Russia's leading transport infrastructure group N-Trans (formerly Severstaltrans). In 1995, the success model of Pakterminal was repeated by Mr. Siff and his partners in the holding company N-Terminal Group Ltd. by acquiring a former soviet military base near the port of Miiduranna, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland and reconstructing it into a modern and well-maintained Milstrand oil terminal for transit transshipment of light oil products. Today, as Estonia's transit trade continues to experience the negative aftermath of Russia's economical and political injunctions established in spring 2007, farsighted Mr. Siff is investigating the alternative of once again changing the site's purpose and turning the oil terminal into an elaborate multifunctional shopping and recreation center, thus providing a long awaited solution to the ever-increasing demand of the residents of the vast developing middle-class suburb surrounding the terminal. Throughout the years N-Terminal Group Ltd., nowadays controlled by Mr. Siff, continued to extend the range and synergy of its business ventures through subsidiaries operating in the various fields of bunkering services, shipping and freight management, warehousing and customs brokering as well as surveillance and security services. Mr. Siff is also the sole owner of the Tallinn Bekker Port, a small port with great potential providing all necessary port and stevedoring services to cargo owners, forwarders, ship-owners, agency companies etc. Throughout the years Mr. Siff has become one of Estonia's top business tycoons and reputable opinion leaders. His know-how and contribution has been valued and utilized by many non-profit organizations such as the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Trade, the Estonian right-conservative political party Pro Partia, Estonian Transit Association and Estonian Tennis Association. Since 1998 until its acquisition by Swedbank in 2005, Mr. Siff acted as a Member of the Supervisory Board and notable shareholder of AS Hansabank – the leading bank in the Baltic States.

Progressing with the global change in economic dynamics, Mr. Siff has turned his focus to less resource dependent and more service oriented and high-tech undertakings. Always seeking new challenges and being inventive, he has tried his hand in the media and publishing sectors as well as ventured into telecommunication services. His private holding company Primos Ltd. today manages investments in business consultancy and IT services (www.aspit.com), property development, air charter services and various inventive and revolutionary high-tech endeavors such as Laser Diagnostic Instruments (developer of cutting-edge laser-based and fluorescence analysis technology and applications), Nartest Technologies (developer and manufacturer of the state-of-the-art NARTEST drug detection system and supporting technology), LDIAMON (sensors and laser technology applications for hemodialysis machines) and Genestho (developer and manufacturer of laser optical medical instruments).


Adel Nouri Al Nouri - Business Development Kuwait and GCC, is a Kuwaiti national with a degree in Business Administration management from Eastern Washington University, U.S.A. Beginning in 1993, he worked for several financial institutions at various managerial levels. Since 1995, he has been working as Deputy Managing director of Nouri Industrial. General Trading and Est. co. is one of the major corporations in Kuwait dealing with engineering products from American and European countries and major suppliers for Kuwait oil and other public sectors. Besides his work with General Trading and Est. co., he has actively focused on share market business in Kuwait as well as GCC countries and as a result has gained a remarkable reputation in share market business. He is presently expanding these business activities to the real estate sector as well. (www.nie.kwt.com)


Amer Mohd Dahman Mubarak -Business Development United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, born in the UAE, is a highly experienced results oriented manager with a proven record of success in exhibitions, customer service, compliance assessments and resource management. He possesses strong communication skills and extensive cross-cultural exposure. Amer's professional history includes working in the Private office of HH the President Shk Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, as well as a number of years spent working for the Abu Dhabi Cooperative Society. Mr. Mubarak has worked in a larger variety of positions consisting of the following: Assistant and stand-in for government officials in UAE and abroad, managing liaisons with foreign government officials and businessmen on political, economic, trade and social issues; Exhibition Organizer for the UAE, UK, Paris, Germany, Cairo, Lebanon and Syria; Press Management, Advertising, Client Relations and Staff Management in various business environments.