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March 03, 2003
From the President and CEO
An Introduction to our Proposed Board Members, and Executive
In an earlier Executive Note (The Evolution of Pyng Medical, February 20, 2003) we announced that for the first time in Pyng Technology’s history, we are able to propose a slate of board members who are independent and bring much needed expertise needed by the companies. We also noted that we are asking shareholders to empower the new board to amalgamate the two companies Pyng Technologies (public) and Pyng Medical (private) into a single public company that will do business as Pyng Medical Corp.
We would like to take this opportunity to give you a bit of background on the proposed new board members, and the current executive of Pyng Medical Corp.
Michael W. Jacobs. Current and Proposed Director. Mr. Jacobs is the Founder, Chair, President and CEO of Pyng Technologies Corp., Chair and CFO of Pyng Medical Corp. Mr. Jacobs has single-handedly raised all the venture and investment capital for Pyng’s ventures since their founding. It was through Michael’s energy and initiative that Pyng Technologies, Canadian Custom Profiles and Pyng Medical Corp. came into being. He successfully took Pyng Technologies onto the Canadian Venture Exchange (now the TSX Venture Exchange out of Toronto), and onto the NASDAQ OTC Board. Mr. Jacobs has a stand-alone patent associated with Intraosseous Infusion, which he has assigned to Pyng Medical Corp. He has brought into the company in excess of $5,500,000 to support the research, development and commercialization, which created the F.A.S.T.1 and brought it to market. He has, over the last 11 years, devoted his energies to bringing forward the commercial success of the F.A.S.T.1 System and has been very instrumental in having the F.A.S.T 1 system adopted by the key emergency medical supply distributors in America as well as successfully negotiated the adoption of the F.A.S.T.1 System into the United States Military and the Canadian Military.
Richard A. Clinchy, III, BS, Ph.D. (Health Service Management), EMT-P. Proposed Director. Dr. Clinchy is the founder and Chairman of The American College of Prehospital Medicine, and President of Emergency Medical Resources Corp. Highly regarded as an EMS educator and author, Dr. Clinchy's experience in EMS goes back over forty years, with most of his EMS involvement as a volunteer. Dr. Clinchy also has an extensive business background. He is the author of Dive/First Responder, published by Jones & Bartlett, and creator of the course by the same name. He has authored over a hundred publications on EMS related topics, and is a member of the Special Operations Medical Association, the Navy League, the United States Naval Institute, the Florida Advisory Council on Military Education, the Council of College and Military Educators, the National Association of EMS Physicians, the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, and the Wilderness Medical Society. Dr. Clinchy is Chief of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary National Department of Education, the lead volunteer agency in the US Department of Homeland Security, which will be teaching all the public HLS courses nationwide.
The Honorable David P. Currier. Proposed Director. Mr. Currier is the Founder (in 1978) and Chairman of Bound Tree Medical, LLC. Under his leadership, Bound Tree has become the largest emergency medical equipment distributor in the United States. Bound Tree was the first major distributor to take on the F.A.S.T.1 as a flagship product. Mr. Currier is a representative to the New Hampshire General Court and was a New Hampshire State Senator from 1988-1996, and past Chairman of the Henniker Republican Committee. His many other community service activities include being a former member and Chief of the Henniker Rescue Squad (NR-EMT), former Chairman of the State Emergency Medical Service Coordinating Board, and former Executive Secretary of the New Hampshire Ski Area Operators Association. Mr. Currier is a Life Member of the Vietnam Veterans of America and the American Legion, past-President of the Henniker Lions Club, a Notary Public and Justice of the Peace, a former member of the Board of Directors of MCT Telecom, and a Trustee of New England College.
David L. Johnson, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D (Physics). Proposed Director. Dr. Johnson is the President and Director of Research and Development for Pyng Medical Corp. With Judy Findlay (Pyng Medical’s CEO), he led all and executed many of the processes that brought the F.A.S.T.1 into existence and onto the market. Dr. Johnson was a co-founder of the Canadian Bureau of Medical Devices and for fifteen years led all its scientific, forensic, applied research and engineering activities. For six years he was president and chair of the International Electrotechnical Commission’s committee on the safety of medical equipment, with responsibility for reliably obtaining consensus between delegations from forty-four countries. David developed the world’s first standard for performance of cardiac pacemakers. He was the founder, and from 1990 to 1996 the first Director of the Health Applied Research and Development Program at the BC Institute of Technology. Following one of his promotional presentations on how that program could help small BC medical device companies commercialize their products, a gentleman named Michael Jacobs emerged from the audience for a discussion and the rest, as they say, is history.
Kevin J. O’Neill, B.Sc. (Hons) Physics, M.Sc. Opto-Electronics. Proposed Director. Mr. O'Neill has a distinguished career in the Canadian high technology sector with senior roles encompassing research, systems development and marketing. Currently he is Sales Director for RADARSAT International, in which capacity he manages all Western North America sales activities and sales staff. He has achieved record annual sales growth in this position and developed several new markets. Kevin is also a Member of the Research Management Committee, Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE), A Canadian Networked Centre of Excellence (NCE), and is Past-Chairman & Director of the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada (GIAC). Mr. O’Neill is an innovative thinker, is highly motivated and results orientated, has strong communication and interpersonal skills, extensive experience in bringing new technologies to markets. Kevin has been a valued member of our advisory committee and a supporter and investor in Pyng.
Charles Victor Pollack, Jr., M.A.(History), M.D., FACEP. Current and Proposed Director. Dr. Pollack is currently the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at the Pennsylvania Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has earned degrees in chemistry, history of science and medicine. Dr. Pollack moved to Philadelphia from leadership positions at Maricopa Medical Center and Arizona Heart Hospital. Dr. Pollack has gathered numerous honors and published hundreds of papers that reflect an outstanding career in emergency medicine and research. He is chairman of the National Research Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). He is the only physician to have received ACEP’s highest national awards in both teaching and research. Dr. Pollack was an early champion and supporter of the F.A.S.T.1, introducing it during its field trials to Maricopa Medical Centre, the Arizona Heart Hospital and the Rural/Metro EMS Corporation in Phoenix, AZ. Since the F.A.S.T.1 entered the market, Dr. Pollack has been invaluable in helping Pyng answer medical questions that have arisen from new users of the system.
Judy M. Findlay, M.A.Sc., P.Eng. CEO and Director of Engineering, Pyng Medical Corp. Ms. Findlay has over fifteen years experience as a biomedical engineer in the research and development of new medical technologies. She joined Pyng in 1993 under contract from BCIT, and in 1996 took a permanent position as VP Engineering. With David Johnson, she led and executed much of the development of the F.A.S.T.1 system. She was the inventor of several of the key items of intellectual property that make the F.A.S.T.1 unique. In October 2001 Ms. Findlay won the prestigious Meritorious Achievement Award from the Association of Professional Engineers (APEGBC) for her significant engineering accomplishments. In December 2001 Judy was recognized in Business in Vancouver’s Top "40 under 40". Judy has devoted volunteer energy to engineering initiatives including serving as chair of the Division for Advancement of Women in Engineering, an APEGBC advocacy group. In her capacity as CEO of Pyng Medical she has steered the company successfully through redesign for manufacture, development of the manufacturing facility, and has been responsible for financial and human resource management during Pyng Medical's first two years on the market.
This is the team we expect to see leading Pyng Medical Corporation in the growth challenges of the next few years … production expansion, market penetration, new product development, and growth of revenue and profit.
David L. Johnson, Ph.D., President Judy Findlay, P.Eng., CEO |
