Chairman of the Board

Mr. Mackie is Chairman of bioLytical™ LABORATORIES Inc. His career in business spans more than 20 years; providing leadership and expertise to a number of companies. Mr. Mackie is experienced in import/export, business-to-business transactions, corporate takeover and restructuring, and marketing strategy. He was co-founder and owner of one of the largest mobile communications companies in Western Canada. For more than 10 years he has successfully managed land and commercial real estate within an international portfolio. Born and raised in British Columbia, Mr. Mackie is actively involved in a number of charitable organizations as well as fund raising for community sports and youth educational programs. He is an active contributor to the INSTI™ Foundation both at home and abroad.

President, Director

Mr. Bligh is the chairman of Galt Partners based out of Chicago. He is the former founder, Chairman, and CEO of Inforte Corp., a NASDAQ publicly traded international sales and marketing services firm. Mr. Bligh is also the former CEO and a current board member of the leading children’s ice cream brand Dippin’ Dots. He is the author of “CRM Unplugged”, a book on reaching customers through more effective sales and marketing techniques. Mr. Bligh also serves on the Board of Directors for Safepole LLC, a durable medical equipment company, Calance Corporation, a healthcare information technology consulting company, and is on the Advisory Board for Neogenix Oncology, a cancer therapeutics and in-vitro diagnostics company. Mr. Bligh is a former Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Chief Science Officer

Dr. Michael  O'Shaughnessy is the Chief Science Officer at bioLytical ™ LABORATORIES Inc. Dr. O’Shaughnessy was hired as founding director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in 1992. In 2001, he was appointed Vice President of Research and Tertiary Programs at Providence Health Care, and Assistant Dean of Research in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Under his leadership, the Centre has developed into a national and world leader in HIV/AIDS treatment and research. Dr. O’Shaughnessy retired as Director of the Centre in October 2003, but continues to be an opinion leader in HIV and health care issues.

Kyle Washington oversees the Washington Marine Group as Executive Chairman of the Board. After graduating from the University of Montana with a business finance degree, Mr. Washington moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. He started in a marketing position at a small marine ship berthing company called Cates Tugs. In 1997, Mr. Washington moved over to Seaspan International Ltd., where he was repositioned throughout the ranks. During this time, the company successfully completed and integrated many marine acquisitions and he and his new team grew the Washington Marine Group shipyards into the largest in Canada. In 2000, along with his two partners, he steered the company into the containership business. In just a few short years, the company became the fastest growing containership owner/operator in the world. Recently, the team ordered the largest containership in the world -- boasting a whopping 9,400 TEU's. bioLytical™ is honored to have one of Canada’s finest businessmen on board the team, and Kyle will no doubt help to steer bioLytical™'s vision of this incredible product in the world of HIV.

Mr. Westgard’s career in business spans more than twenty-five years. Concentrating primarily in the Real Estate and Finance Sector, Mr. Westgard has been directly involved in the development and sales of over 1,000 residential and commercial units in both Canada and the United States. He has also placed and managed over $50,000,000.00 for different projects and ventures during the same time frame. Born and raised in North Delta, B.C., Mr. Westgard went on to play baseball for the University of Washington where he concurrently studied business and economics, and went on to play professionally in the New York Yankees organization. Mr. Westgard is now actively involved with local charities and coaches and sponsors numerous amateur sports teams and associations.

President, AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Michael Weinstein is the president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care. Before becoming involved in HIV/AIDS related issues in the 1980s, he was a businessman and graphic designer. Since 1986, Mr. Weinstein has been a leader in the fight against HIV and AIDS. As president and co-founder of AHF, he oversees a $200-million organization whose mission is to provide “cutting-edge medicine and advocacy regardless of ability to pay.” AHF currently serves 79,000 clients in the United States, Africa, Central America and Asia. Under Mr. Weinstein’s leadership, AHF has grown from a group of friends dedicated to the creation of dignified care for people in the last stages of AIDS to the largest AIDS organization in the United States. The Foundation now operates 13 outpatient AHF Healthcare Centers in California and Florida. AHF also operates twelve pharmacies, a clinical research unit, a disease management program throughout the State of Florida (Positive Healthcare/Florida), and the first capitated Medicaid managed care program for people with AIDS (Positive Healthcare/California).

In 2001, AHF launched AHF Global, a non-profit, international initiative to bring lifesaving antiretroviral therapy to developing and resource-poor countries. AHF Global works in partnership with local stakeholders including ministries of health and non-government organizations to establish sustainable and replicable models for high-quality, sustainable HIV/AIDS healthcare service delivery. AHF Global currently has partnerships and operates free 46 AIDS treatment clinics in 15 countries outside the US in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean in countries including Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Thailand, Uganda, Viet Nam and Zambia. AHF also operates medical provider-training programs in China, Haiti, Nigeria, Russian Federation and Ukraine. In order to help finance some of the many services AHF provides, Weinstein also created the popular fundraising Out of the Closet thrift store chain, the nation’s largest AIDS-related retail business, which contributes to the innovative HIV/AIDS initiatives of AHF. Out of the closet now boasts 19 stores in California, two of which offer free HIV testing as part of the Foundation’s groundbreaking alternative HIV testing and prevention program which conducts more than 14,000 free HIV tests annually. Before founding AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Weinstein served as coordinator of the Stop the AIDS Quarantine Committee and then as executive director of the Los Angeles AIDS Hospice Committee, which led the fight for hospice care in the mid-eighties. In 2001, Weinstein was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Whittier College for his career achievements.

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