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Jonathan J. Spees became a Director of Synthetic Blood in July 2004. He is a founder, and has served since August 2002, as Senior Executive Vice President, Corporate Finance and Development for Merit Health Systems LLC headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Merit Health Systems is a hospital management company that acquires and operates stand-alone, full-service, urban and suburban community hospitals. As Chief Development Officer, Mr. Spees is based in Santa Monica, California, and applies his experience in healthcare finance, including mergers and acquisitions and financial reporting by health care organizations, to the acquisition, finance and management activities of Merit Health Systems. Before 2002, Mr. Spees was Managing Director for Duff & Phelps, LLC; Principal with Shamrock Investments, a boutique private investment firm specializing in the healthcare industry; and Associate Director of Development for American Medical International, Inc., a $4 billion hospital management company. Mr. Spees is a Certified Public Accountant with public accounting experience as a manager and healthcare industry specialist with Deloitte, Haskins + Sells. | 