Bishwajit Nag, Ph.D. Founder, President and CEO, NRL-USA / NRL-India Ph.D. Biochemistry (1984) in association with Late Nobel Laureate Dr. Severo Ochoa Post Doctoral Fellow (1984-1987) Biological Sciences, UC Davis Medical School, Davis, CA Senior Scientist (1987-1988) Berlex Biosciences, South San Francisco, CA Director of Research & Development (1988-1995) Anergen Inc., Redwood City, CA Founder & CSO (1996-2001) Calyx Therapeutics Inc., Hayward, CA Founder & CEO (2002-2007) BEXEL Pharmaceuticals Inc., Union City, CA Author of >150 publications, Inventor of >100 patents world-wide Expertise: Drug Discovery, Capital Raising, IPO, Licensing and Strategic Developments Tina Sepp, Ph.D. Sales and Marketing Coordinator/Advisory Board member, NRL-Biotechnology Division Ph.D. (1992) Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute, Germany MBA Biotechnology Ext. Courses (1999) Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, CA Research Scientist, UCSF, SFGH and VAMC, San Francisco, CA (1994-1999) Senior Research Scientis (1999-2000), Amersham Biosciences, San Francisco, CA EGlobal Product Manager (2000-2004), BD Biosciences / Clontech, Palo Alto, CA Business Development Executive (2004-2005) Genospectra Inc., Fremont, CA Senior Product Manager (2005-2006) Invitrogen Corporation, South San Francisco, CA Director, Marketing and Sales (2006-2008) Multispan Inc., Hayward, CA Senior Consulting Partner (2009-present) Bridge-4-Bio Consulting Company 20 years of solid experience in Biotechnology Products, Research Sales and Marketing Hugh Douglas, MBA Sales and Marketing Coordinator/Advisory Board member, NRL-Biotechnology Division MBA (1980), Golden Gate University, San Francisco and BA (1977) UC Berkeley Director, Manufacturing and Operation, Hoefer Scientific, SFO (1992-1995) Electrophoresis/Electro-Blotting Vice-President, West Coast Operation, Amersham Biosciences (2000-2003) President and CEO, Hoefer Scientific, Subsidiary of Harvard Biosciences (2003-2007) President and CEO, Bridge-4-Bio (2007-present) Expertise: Global Sales and Marketing Leader for Biotech Research Products S. Narasimhan, Ph.D. Advisory Board Member & Collaborator, NRL-USA / NRL-India Ph.D. Organic Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry (1978) Post Doctoral Fellow with Nobel Laureate Prof. H.C. Brown, Purdue University, USA Director of SPIC Science Foundation (1988-2003) India Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Loyolla College, USA Founder and Managing Director of Asthagiri Herbal Research Foundation (2003-present) India Author of >100 scientific publications, Editor of books, and has >20 awarded Ph.D. Graduates Expertise: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Combinatorial Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Extraction and Identification of Bioactive Natural Products, Pheromones and Unique Herbal Formulations Prasenjit Nag, B.S. (Hons.) Board of Director, NRL-India B.Sc. (Honors) Chemistry and Biology (1988) Gen. Manager QC (1988-1991) Bengal State Cooperative Market Federation Sales Director (1991-1994) Tata Engineering Project Inida Ltd. (TISCO) Head, Sales & Marketing (1994-1996) Yogi Pharmaceuticals Ltd. India Overseas Co-ordinator, Sales & Marketing (1996-2007) BEXEL Biotech Inc., Union City, CA Overseas Co-ordinator, Herbal Extracts (1997-2002) Calyx Therapeutics, Hayward, CA Co-founder and Director of the Board (2005-present) NRL-India Pvt. Ltd., India Expertise: Global Sales & Marketing, Facility Operations Jaya Das, M.S. (Chemistry) Board of Director, NRL-India M.Sc. Chemistry/Physical Chemistry (1980) Banaras Hindu University, India Director of Chemistry (2000-2004) BEXEL Biotechnology Inc., Union City, CA Sales & Marketing Co-ordinator, Asia Pacific Region (1996-2006) BEXEL Biotech Inc., USA Board member and co-founder (2005-present) NRL Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., India Expertise: Sales & Marketing, Strategic Planning Santanu Mukhopadhyay, CA/CPA Chief Financial Officer, NRL-India Chartered Accountant – Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India from 1997-2002 Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India from 2002 onwards General Partner with M/s Narayan K. Agrawal & Co., Chartered Accountants, Varanasi , India Auditor of major national banks of India since 1999 Expertise : Financial Controller, Auditor, Income Tax, VAT, Corporate Liaisons, Corporate Legal Obligations Prof. Bakthan Singaram, Ph.D. Advisory Board Member & Collaborator Ph.D. Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1977), Christian Medical College, India PDF/ Senior Associate (1977-1982) with Nobel Laureate Prof. H.C. Brown, Purdue University, USA Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (1999-present) Assoc. Prof. and Assist. Prof. of Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz (1989-1998) Affiliations: Bristol Myer Squibb, Dow Chemicals, and Stanford Research Institute, CA Author of over 150 peer-reviewed articles in journals and inventor of > 10 patents Expertise: Cost-effective Scale-up Synthesis, Boron Chemistry and Drug Efficacy Enhancements Savitha G Ananth, MSc, PGD Scientific Collaborator, NRL-USA / NRL-India MSc, Microbiology (gold medalist), Bangalore University (1997), India Senior Scientist, R & D, Biocon (1997-2000), India Senior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, (2000-2001), India Post Graduate Diploma, Bioinformatics, IBAB (2006), India Founder & Director of Genbios (2006-present), A Bioinformatics Corporation, India Expertise: Bioinformatics for drug discovery, specialized data base generation, extraction and purification of microbial products for drug discovery.