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Kenneth C. Aldrich, Chairman,
CEO and Co-Founder,
has
been active in venture capital investing and private equity since 1975. He is
Co-founder and Chairman of International Stem Cell Corporation (ISCO), a
Managing Director of Convergent Ventures, an early-stage life sciences
investment company, and an active member of Tech Coast Angels. Through those
entities and predecessor companies, he has provided early-stage funding and
management for a variety of biomedical and technology start-ups, including
WaveTec Vision Systems, an ophthalmic device company (as a Director and
co-founder), Neurion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a drug discovery and evaluation
company (as a Director and co-founder), and Orfid Corporation, a developer of
organic transistors (as a founder and financial advisor). He is also a director
of Green Dot Corporation, the world’s largest issuer of prepaid debit cards. Mr.
Aldrich holds degrees, with honors, from both Harvard University and Harvard Law
School. E-Mail:
kaldrich@intlstemcell.com.
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Jeffrey Janus,
President,
has a proven track record extending over eighteen years of creating profitable
commercial cell based businesses and building corporate value as a result.
Jeffrey was a founder of Lifeline Cell Technology, the keystone company to ISCO’s
portfolio of cellular companies. He led in the development and commercialization
of Clonetics Corporation and the Clonetics brand of human cell products for both
research and clinical use. Clonetics is the leading brand of human-cell based
products, well known for quality and innovation. That company was successfully
sold in 1995 after ten consecutive years of profitable growth exceeding 20%. Mr.
Janus foresaw the need for human cells in therapy and created businesses in the
contract manufacturing of human cells and culture media and human cells for
clinical use. He has organized businesses providing unique research products
using living cells to conduct drug screening in the pharmaceutical industry,
product testing in the consumer products industry and basic research at
Universities and Government laboratories. Critical staff from Clonetics
Corporation agreed to join Lifeline largely based on the success of working Mr.
Janus in the past. Mr. Janus has a MBA and a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry.
E-Mail: JanusJ@lifelinecelltech.com.
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William B.
Adams, CPA, CFO and Co-Founder,
has 30 years of experience in the corporate consulting
and
financing arenas. Mr. Adams has provided seed capital and secondary and bridge
financing to
numerous start-up companies both individually and as a manager of
various private investment
partnerships. He is a Managing Member of Convergent
Investors, LLC (also known as "CV-I"). Mr. Adams served as CFO of Neurion
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a CV-I portfolio company. Through investments prior to
the formation of Convergent Ventures, Mr. Adams is a co-founder of WaveTec
Vision Systems, an
ophthalmic device company and Lifeline Cell Technology, LLC.
He served as President of Wm. Adams Accountancy Corporation and was a founder of
Dimensional Planning Group, a management consulting
and financial planning
company. Previously, Mr. Adams was an accountant at Ernst & Ernst (now Ernst &
Young). Mr. Adams holds a B.S. in Accounting from California State University,
Long Beach and is on the alumni Board of Ernst & Young in Los Angeles.
E-mail: wadams@intlstemcell.com.
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Edward O. Hunter,
Director,
has
more than 30 years experience in International Law, Corporate Governance and
best practices. An attorney with Robinson & Robinson LLP in Irvine, California
since 2002, he currently serves as a director of En Pointe Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPT),
where he serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees, as well as a non-US
private equity funded corporation, Ovex Technologies (Pvt.) Limited. He has
advised or served on numerous private company and nonprofit boards as well.
Mr. Hunter has worked at the SEC in Washington, D.C., was in-house legal counsel
from 1974 to 1982 at General Motors Corporation in Detroit, moved to Toyota
Motors in Torrance, California from 1982 through 1990, and practiced with the
law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Green & MacRae, a large multi-national firm from 1991
through 2000. He earned his JD with honors from The George Washington
University National Law Center in Washington, DC, and a BA with honors from the
University of Utah.
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Paul V. Maier, Director,
has over 20
years of experience as a senior executive in biotechnology and pharmaceutical
companies. Mr. Maier is currently an independent financial consultant.
Previously, Mr. Maier was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial officer of
Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGND) a commercial stage biopharmaceutical
company, a position he held from 1992 to 2007. From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Maier
served as Vice President, Finance of DFS West, a division of DFS Group, LP a
private multinational retailer. From 1984 to 1990, Mr. Maier was employed by
ICN Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology research products
company, where he held various executive positions in finance and general
management in ICN as well as SPI Pharmaceuticals, a publicly held subsidiary.
Mr. Maier has served on the boards of public and private companies. Mr. Maier
received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Pennsylvania State
University.
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Donald Wright, Director, brings to
International Stem Cell Corporation over 30 years of experience in starting and
nurturing emerging growth companies, both public and private. He is President
and Founder of Everett, Washington-based Confluence Capital Group Inc., (www.confluencecap.com),
which provides consulting services to institutional investors, debt holders and
public and private companies.
Prior to Confluence Capital, Mr. Wright was President and CEO of Pacific
Aerospace & Electronics, Inc., a company he founded in 1990, took public and ran
until 2006. Under his leadership, Pacific Aerospace grew from annual sales of
approximately $3 million in 1994 to over $112 million in 2000. Earlier, Mr.
Wright was President and CEO of Washington-based Component Concepts, Inc., a
company he founded in 1976. He is the recipient of numerous business and
community awards, and was named one of the 50 fastest growing companies in
Washington State for 1998, 1999 and 2000 by Deloitte & Touche. Additionally he
was recognized by Deloitte & Touche as one of the 500 fastest growing companies
in the United States for 1998,
1999 and 2000.
Mr. Wright served as an
advisory board member for Central Washington University’s School of Business for
six years and completed the UCLA Director Training and Certification Program.
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