Katrina Houde was elected to the Board of Directors in December 2000 and also serves as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Houde has been an independent consultant since March 2000. From January 1999 to March 2000 Ms. Houde was President of Cuddy Food Products a division of Cuddy International Corp. a large international poultry company with 2 200 employees worldwide. Ms. Houde was Chief Operating Officer of Cuddy International Corp. from January 1996 to January 1999 and held progressively more senior positions with Cuddy since joining them in September 1991. In the past 5 years Ms. Houde has not served on any other reporting issuers Board of Directors. |