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.

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 recipient of the 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.

Mr. Horner is a founding member and part of the management team of CopperLion Capital, a private equity investment fund headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a broad background in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, having completed financings and executed divestitures and acquisitions in a number of diverse sectors. Previously, Mr. Horner worked as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch & Co., CIBC World Markets and Ernst & Young Orenda Corporate Finance. Prior to working on Wall Street, he worked at Lawson Lundell LLP in Vancouver and was called to the Bar of Brisith Columbia. Mr. Horner's M&A experience includes advising public and private clients on take over bids, share and asset sales, fairness opinions, special committee, going private and minority investment transactions with aggregate transaction values of over $30 billion. He has also advised on equity, income trust and debt financing assignments raising aggregate proceeds of over $10 billion. Mr. Horner is a CFA Charterholder and holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia, an LL.B from the University of Toronto Law School, an MA from the University of British Columbia, a C.E.P. from L'Institut D'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a BA from Carleton University.

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 million 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.

 

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