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Rand P. Mulford, Director, currently, Mr. Mulford serves as EVP for Strategy with Chatham Capital and Forest Health Services. For the previous two years, he was part of the senior management team of a small investment banking firm that specializes in funding early stage companies and technology-based spinouts using private placements. he has worked directly with four portfolio companies. Mr. Mulford was asked to identify critical issues and develop business strategy, serve on three of the Boards of Directors, assume a direct managerial role in two of the companies, and negotiate the successful sale of one of the companies, His corporate experience includes: Group VP of planning and control for a petrochemical company; head of corporate planning at Merck; CFO of a human tissue company; COO of a drug discovery company and president of its subsidiary, a research chemical company; COO of a diagnostics company; Chairman of the Board of a medical device company; and head of the corporate development at a bio-pharmaceutical company. Mr. Mulford started his business career with the consulting firm of McKinsey & Co. in the Chicago office. During an eight-year period, he served about twenty clients working on a variety of issues primarily related to strategy and organization. Mr. Mulford obtained a bachelors degree in engineering with honors from Princeton University in 1965. For the next five years he served as a naval officer in the nuclear submarine program. Subsequently, he earned an MBA with high distinction at Harvard Business School. | 