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Eberhard Schoneburg has been our founder and Chairman of our Board since November 1994. He was Chief Executive Officer from November 1994 to May 1996 and from October 1997 to the present. We were founded in November 1994 as Neurotec International Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Neurotec GmbH, a German multimedia and Internet solutions company owned by Mr. Schoneburg and two corporate investors: a major German retailer and an industrial conglomerate. Neurotec GmbH was part of the Neurotec Group, a group of high tech companies founded in Germany by Mr. Schoneburg in 1993. In 1997, Mr. Schoneburg sold all of his shares in Neurotec GmbH to the remaining stockholders and contemporaneously purchased 100% of the shares of Neurotec International Corp. from Neurotec GmbH. From 1989 to 1994 Mr. Schoneburg was a professor for industrial applications of artificial intelligence at Fachhochschule Furtwangen, Germany. From 1988 to 1993, he was the chairman of the BIT Group, a group of five German high-tech companies which he founded in 1988. Mr. Schoneburg was awarded the First Prize of the Berlin Innovation Award in 1990 for the development of the first European Neural Compiler and again in 1992 for the development of an expert system for detecting chemical hazards for Procter and Gamble. He has published five course books on a wide variety of topics such as computer viruses, neural networks, evolution strategies and genetic programming. Mr. Schoneburg has successfully launched over 20 high tech companies on three continents over the last 20 years. | 