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[ Founders / Directors ]
Dr. Earl Azimov, Founder and
President: Dr. Azimov is an optometrist by profession and brings 20 years of private equity experience, with a focus on seed capital investments in start-up companies. He developed and sold a chain of Canadian optometry clinics to National Vision Associates of Atlanta, who operated the Wal-Mart Vision centers throughout the US. He has been instrumental in securing numerous other acquisitions and financings, with primary responsibilities of business and revenue modeling, business development, strategic alliances, development and executive recruiting. Dr. Azimov was a co-founder and CEO of Miazzi Ventures Inc., a merchant bank that has been assuming leadership roles in early stage companies since 1996, including Mamma.com, a leading internet meta-search engine, which was sold in 1999 for a high valuation at the height of the dot.com boom. Dr. Azimov received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the PME fund of Montreal in recognition of his success as an incubator of start-up companies. He attended the University of South Carolina on a tennis scholarship, where he achieved the level of National Dean’s list and obtained a bachelor of science in Biology and graduated, in 1988, from the University of Montreal with a Doctorate degree in Optometry.
Gerald Enloe, Chairman: Effective April 30, 2009, the Company elected Mr. Gerald Enloe as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Since 1991, Mr. Enloe, has served as President and CEO of Houston Industrial Materials Inc. Mr. Enloe has 25 years of experience in the environmental remediation business.
Paul L. Whitton, Senior Vice President: Since 1988, Mr. Whitton has been the owner of JK, Inc., an environmental consulting company based in Houston, Texas. Mr. Whitton holds numerous patents relating to industrial environmental quality and is a nationally recognized speaker on abatement. Prior to 1988, he spent 22 years with Brown & Root Construction Company where he was an area superintendent for construction and maintenance of oil and gas refineries, nuclear power plants, and paper mills throughout the world, but primarily in the Mideast and United Kingdom. He was also a construction supervisor with Boeing Air and he was in the Unites States Navy for four years. Mr. Whitton brings industrial plant management and construction experience, as well as his environmental expertise, to the Company.
Kenneth S. Adessky, Founder and CFO: Attorney and Senior Partner of Adessky Lesage, a corporate commercial law firm located in Montreal Canada. Mr. Adessky has been involved in private and public financing and mergers and acquisitions; he has orchestrated takeovers on the NASDAQ OTC bulletin board, TSX venture exchange and is presently working with companies on the American Stock Exchange and AIM Exchange.
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