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Mr. Sorkin has 25 years of making strategic investments and business development. He has been affiliated with Immtech since 1998, when he became an investor. In 2000, Mr. Sorkin became a director for the Company, and more recently was appointed Chairman of the Board and CEO. Mr. Sorkin began his career on Wall Street in 1982 working at Dean Witter, which is now a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, and from an entry-level position, he was promoted to Managing Director within six years. He was among the core group of professionals at the firm, which developed the firm’s investment portfolio with assets of over USD $3 billion. Corporations, banks and entities with which Mr. Sorkin worked on completed transactions included Aetna, International Paper, Continental Insurance, Barclays Banks, Chase Manhattan, Harvard University, Southern Bell, Cigna, the State of Wisconsin, AIG, Modern Woodman of America, Zurich American Life, and San Francisco City and County. Mr. Sorkin was responsible for investment selection, negotiations, transaction and financial structuring, debt placement, and asset management. Mr. Sorkin was Officer of over 20 public investment partnerships with investment funds totaling over USD $1 billion. In 1993, Mr. Sorkin created his own investment firm and began making private equity investments in the U.S. and in China. Mr. Sorkin graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics. | 