Robert E. Chamberlain, Jr., Chairman & Director. Mr. Chamberlain has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University's Technological Institute and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Mr. Chamberlain served as Vice President with Solomon Brothers Inc. (1986 to 1992), where his responsibilities included mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, merchant banking, divestitures, corporate finance, capital raises, restructurings and new product development in both the private and public markets. From 1992 through 1995, Mr. Chamberlain served as Vice President for Laidlaw Securities and Dickinson & Co. where he was responsible for generating public and private equity transactions. Since 1995, Mr. Chamberlain has assisted small emerging growth companies gain access to the capital markets and develop well articulated strategic objectives through consulting companies he controlled. Most recently, Mr. Chamberlain served as Chairman, CEO, CFO and Director of a publicly traded energy company involved in the development of oil and gas opportunities, primarily in the Barnett Shale of Texas. |