Sharon Corr, MBA

Executive Director of IPO Partners, a Boston-based advisory firm that counsels companies pursuing an initial public offering. With more than 10 years of experience on Wall Street, she most recently served as Director of Technology Equity Research for Lehman Brothers in London. Her prior experience includes three years as a Senior Analyst at Merrill Lynch, covering health care and software stocks in New York and as Senior Analyst for Robertson Stephens in London, covering European software and IT services stocks. She also worked at asset management firm Neuberger Berman. She has covered both US and European equities and worked as the lead banking analyst on IPOs in the US, Germany, France, Spain, Finland, Ireland and Switzerland. She was a weekly guest on The Money Channel in Europe and a repeat guest on CNBC and CNN. She was featured in a BBC Special on the Internet in December 2000 and has been quoted in publications including Fortune, The Wall Street, Journal, The Financial Times and Money Magazine. In 2002 she was a speaker at the Wall Street Journal’s Women In Business Conference in Rome.

Michael Rubin, BA, JD

Mr. Rubin has had more than 15 years of experience in international trade, finance and investment. His experience includes time with a U.S. State Department of Commerce, 4 years as a Business Manager with BT Asia Pacific (having been responsible for the Concert IP services portfolio in Asia) and more than 10 years as a legal practitioner focusing on corporate / securities laws, real estate and project / structured finance. He has been associated with numerous law firms including Smith, Gambrell & Russell (Atlanta), Holland & Knight, Looney & Grossman (Boston) and Shin, Hwang & Kim (Korea), and had has also worked with small, medium and large-sized companies in the energy / oil & gas, IT / telecommunications and pharmaceutical / biotech industries. He has been responsible for representing businesses, transactions and relationships in the U.S. and in most countries throughout the Asia Pacific region. Currently he is an international lawyer and the Managing Director – Legal / Finance for Doran Capital Partners (an investment banking and real estate investment / management advisory services company).

Andrew W. Raab, BA, MBA

Executive Director – Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories (MRL), worldwide strategic and capital planning (retired).

Mr. Raab has taken international business development very literally over his 38 year career with MRL.

He has been responsible for the development, implementation and management of a Merck five year worldwide strategic capital plan which required an average expenditure of 500+ million dollars. He managed the utilization of capital funding for the design and construction of major research facilities in domestic and international sites. These sites included Rome, Italy; Riom, France; and Madrid, Spain; Harlow, England; Montreal, Canada; and several within the United States.

He established and managed an annual capital equipment plan to assure the highest quality of standards, based on the latest technology. This plan required an average annual expenditure of 15-30 million dollars. Mr. Raab established and served as the chairperson of the MRL capital research committee which reviewed and approved all capital funding requests, for all research labs worldwide.

He also established all required business systems to operate and maintain all the worldwide services and resources.

In Terlings Park, England, Mr. Raab served as the chief research manager for the design, construction and implementation of the 10 year, 150,000 sq. ft. neuroscience research center project.

Dr. Joseph Zoghbi, BS, MBA, PHD

Dr Joseph Zoghbi is a member of the “Contact Partenaire Client” (CPC) network. This is a network of independent consultants based in Paris, France, who works on business development issues around the World covering a wide range of specialties. Dr. Zoghbi, with advanced degrees in economics and business development, is a specialist in international market analysis, strategic business planning and hands on business development. He has started over 5 subsidiaries and has established many valuable business partnerships and joint ventures. The projects that he developed and/or managed range from sulphur purification plant, to hotels and tourist resorts, oil products, rice and grain terminals, concrete terminals and NTIC. He has also performed several market and feasibility studies in many sectors: rice milling, cement market studies, hotels and resorts, renewable energy sources, whey valorisation and other subjects.

Leslie M. Boring, BS

Leslie M. Boring is currently general manager of LMB International. His company specializes in the development of financial models and the application of analytical cash flow evaluation techniques to the planning and implementation of real estate development programs, corporate real estate and related investments. Mr. Boring is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, prior to joining Citicorp Real Estate in 1986, pursued a career as practicing engineer, MIT university administrator, and international corporate banker. At Citibank, he spent seven years in the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, and ten years in Europe, based in France. Beginning in 1986, he has been fully involved in real estate finance and investment advisory services, initially with Citicorp Real Estate in France and later as head of the real estate services department of the French subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Since 1994, Mr. Boring has worked as a private consultant and advisor to investors and real estate developers on large area urban land development and specialized product programs in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Tunisia and Morocco. Mr. Boring brings to his work a wealth of regional knowledge, an ease of foreign culture and language capabilities and a personal history of professional working relationships with such innovators in the international real estate industry as Jean-Louis Solal and Gerald D. Hines and the widely recognized urban planning firm, EDAW. His corporate real estate evaluation and planning work utilizes comparative cash flow forecasting and analytical techniques to originate and qualify solutions that reduce occupancy costs of large corporations. This has included projects to consolidate multiple locations with complex management organizations to reduce occupancy costs for General Electric in the U.K., France, Spain and Italy. Mr. Boring is based in Paris, France, and travels frequently to the Middle East and North Africa.

Geoffrey W. Jackson, MA

Cofounder and Board Chairman, HealthLink Medical Center in Philadelphia. Mr. Jackson helped found, launch, and now manages a charitable free health clinic for eligible, working uninsured adults in southeastern Pennsylvania. Also, Mr. Jackson is the Managing Trustee of the Fourjay Foundation, a family foundation supporting 100 charities annually in southeastern Pennsylvania in education, healthcare, and human service philanthropy.

Edward Scheer BA, MBA

Mr. Scheer specializes in small business development. He teamed up with Euratio Akademie Zurich, a small management consulting firm, specializing in fields of training, development and leadership. Upon graduating with his M.B.A., Mr. Scheer opened the first staffed office in America, located in Cambridge, MA and hired a small staff to run the office. After operating for 10 months, Mr. Scheer moved on to AmeriFee Corporation to head up their sales force for entrance into the Canadian market. He worked as a corporate account manager for AmeriFee for two years.Most recently, Ed has been in engaged in real estate business development in Jackson Hole.

Mr. Scheer has a BA in International Relations and an MBA in International Business from Rollins College and an international specialization from the Sorbonne, Paris, France. Additionally, Mr. Scheer holds certificates in Unix, and programming languages of C and C++.