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Mr. Abajian has served in Senior Management and Executive positions throughout the past twenty-five years where he played pivotal roles in the development and launches of a number of pharmaceutical and device products. In 1988 he founded CPG Inc. in Lincoln Park, New Jersey where he served as Chief Executive Officer until 2002. CPG Inc. invented, manufactured and sold DNA Synthesis products, chromatography media’s and molecular biology kits to researchers in over 40 countries worldwide. This privately-held company was sold to Millipore Corporation in 2002. Prior to running his own company Mr. Abajian served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Electro Nucleonics Inc. in Fairfield, New Jersey between 1981 and 1988. Electro Nucleonics Inc. invented, manufactured and sold blood chemistry systems and diagnostic kits worldwide. The company also launched the first FDA approved AIDS test. At Electro Nucleonics Mr. Abajian was responsible for procuring $50 million of hospital instrumentation sales, opened up the veterinarian market for the company and was key to brokering a deal that required all Armed Forces and The American Red Cross to purchase all HIV tests from the company. The organization included five regional managers, 45 sales representatives and 20 technical representatives. In 2004, he founded The Abajian Group LLC, a company that advises CEOs on strategic planning and assists in the commercialization of technologies and sales and marketing. He continues to serve as a trustee of Eva’s Village, a non-for-profit organization in Paterson, New Jersey, and of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey, where he previously held the positions of Chairman of the OPEC Committee and a member of the hospital’s Finance and Pension Committee and the Executive Committee. | 