Robert Linttell -
President Working with a broad range of professionals, services
are provided to clients who demonstrate a committed management
team and Services include corporate reorganization, management and Board selection, business plan review and preparation, seed capital to initial public offering co-ordination and facilitation, private placements, marketing and investor relations. Services have been provided to the agriculture, mining, health care, technology, construction, manufacturing, resource exploration, pharmaceutical, food-beverage, geophysical, resort development and real estate industries. Mr. Linttell is currently a member of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and an active member of Rotary International. He also is a retired senior R.C.M.P. officer following
a 24 year career including investigation, administration and planning. Frank Estergaard - Secretary Mr. Estergaard holds a Bachelor Commerce (Accounting) degree, graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1963 and thereafter embarking on a career with KPMG Chartered Accountants. He initially served in KPMG’s Vancouver office responsible for a number of large and medium sized public and private company audits, transferring to KPMG’s Vernon, B.C. office and becoming a partner in June 1972. He was appointed to Office Managing Partner in 1985. He was later elected to KPMG’s B.C. Regional Management Committee and the firm's National Policy Board. In 1989 he accepted a transfer to the firm's Ottawa, Ontario office and served as Vice-Chairman, Ontario Region, and was appointed to KPMG’s Executive Committee and Partnership Board. In 1993 he transferred to KPMG’s Kelowna, B.C. office to serve as Partner In Charge, and consulted with a number of public companies and clients in the high tech and emerging business sector. He is also a qualified expert witness having given evidence in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and other courts. Mr. Estergaard is now retired from KPMG and provides
advisory services to select businesses. Mr. Estergaard served
as President of the Vernon Chamber of Commerce, was chairman and
a founding director of the North Okanagan Economic Development
Commission, Treasurer of the Vernon Rotary Club, Vernon Winter
Carnival Society and Vernon Community Arts Council.
Mr. Fernback was employed as a Marketing Consultant with Pivotal Strategies, a Vancouver based marketing consulting firm, from 1994 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he was employed in a consulting capacity and served as an Associate at Discovery Capital Corporation ("Discovery Capital"), a corporate finance and fund management company specializing in financing and consulting to technology based and start-up ventures. At Discovery Capital Mr. Fernback participated in the management of several venture capital funds which raised over $20 million through a series of private offerings called the Exceptional Technologies Funds ("ExFund"). All monies for the ExFunds were raised under the VCC program and, as of the date of the Offering Memorandum, Discovery Capital continues to manage and operate the VCC investments. In 1998 Mr. Fernback joined Wolverton Securities Ltd. ("Wolverton"), a Western Canadian based broker-dealer and investment bank, as the Manager of the Corporate Finance Department. Here, Mr. Fernback is responsible for all due diligence activities with respect to Wolverton's underwritings, mergers, acquisitions and corporate consulting practices. Mr. Fernback was selected as a member of the Corporate Finance Committee of the Vancouver Stock Exchange ("VSE") and was an active member until the VSE's merger to form a new national stock exchange, the Canadian Venture Exchange (now the TSX Venture Exchange), the primary source of capital for micro-capitalization companies in North America. Mr. Fernback holds an Honours Bachelor of Science
(B.Sc.) degree from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) and
a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from the University
of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia). Vernon J. Nielsen Mr. Nielsen is an experienced senior executive and entrepreneur in packaged goods, personal entertainment and numerous other industries. He has headed numerous new market entries, product launches, and multinational sales forces in various environments characterized by complex, multilayered distribution channels and cross-linked business partnerships. His experience includes former management roles at General Foods and being CEO of other successful ventures. He has conducted business in Canada, USA, Europe and Asia. His two most recent positions were VP Worldwide Sales & Marketing for a segment-leading packaged goods firm based in New York City, and more recently, cofounder of a high tech software company in Kelowna. As an entrepreneur and private investor, he has made investments and engineered liquidity events in a wide range of ventures, including packaged goods, sporting goods, real estate, and the hospitality/entertainment industry. Mr. Nielsen holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Calgary and completed Graduate Studies in marketing at University of British Columbia. Mr. Nielsen is currently a director of; Okanagan
Capital Fund,, Crossflux Inc., Kelowna/Lake Country Liberal Riding
Association, Okanagan Science and Technology Council, and Nelcor
Holdings Ltd. He is Co-chair of the Knowledge Services Cluster of
the Okanagan Partnership Initiative and is a member of the Board
of Advisors for CATO (Center for Arts and Technology).
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