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John D. Ericsson, has been our Chief Executive Officer and President and a founding director since our inception in 1989. Since 1995, he has also served as Managing Director and President of Gulf Marine Institute of Technology (GMIT), a publicly supported, nonprofit marine research institute, which has received numerous equipment and research grants for aquaculture development. From 1982 to 1989, Mr. Ericsson was an independent consultant advising in the fields of energy, cogeneration and marine aquaculture to various companies and institutions in the United States. Mr. Ericsson holds a B.S. degree in business management and marketing from the University of Tulsa and is listed in Who’s Who of American Inventors 1996-1998, holding United States patents (now expired) for the Sea Trek Ocean Farming System and the Sea Star Oyster Relay System. He has been a member of the World Aquaculture Society, the Aquacultural Engineering Society and has been honored by the Massachusetts House of Representatives for “his outstanding contributions to the fishing industry.”Mr. Ericsson and our company’s aquaculture systems were featured in the October 23, 1995 issue of Forbes Magazine in the Science and Technology section.
Edwin W. Cake, Jr., PhD, has been our director and Chief Science Officer since 1993. From 1994 to 1998, he served as President and a director of Sea Star Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of ours. He has also served as a director of GMIT since 1995. Dr. Cake served as Aquaculturist and Secretary/Treasurer of Nauticulture Systems, Inc., from 1988 to 1991. From 1973 to 1986, he was a Senior Research Scientist and Section Head of the Oyster Biology Section of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, a marine research institute in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. From 1975 to January 2000, Dr. Cake was an Adjunct Professor of marine science and environmental science at the University of Southern Mississippi. He currently serves as a senior environmental consultant to various private and public institutions and was a former member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf of Mexico Program. He has also served as president of the National Shellfisheries Association. Dr. Cake holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography from Florida State University.
Georgine Burt, is the acting Secretary/Treasurer of BioMarine and has been with BioMarine Technologies, Inc. since August 2000, when she was initially employed as an Administrative Assistant. Mrs. Burt and John Ericsson, our President, were married in June 18, 2005. Mrs. Burt received a BS in Business Administration and Marketing from the San Diego State University in California in 1986 and is a notary public and official circuit court reporter.
Luis Cabello, is intended to be our Operations Manager and Vice President, following the successful conclusion of our current financing round. Mr. Cabello received his education at the Business School of Economy Cordoba (Spain), where he graduated in 1981 with a doctorate and masters degree in agriculture economy. Mr. Cabello has served as a member of many international sea farming organizations, including from 1985 to 1990 Tinamener SA of Spain, engaging in hatching of clams, oysters, prawns, sea bass, sea bream and turbot. From 1990 to 1993, he was project manager at Culmarex of Spain, the first company to use sea cages for fish farming in Spain, whereby he managed a turbot intensive grow-out and oversaw production reaching 800 tons per year of sea bream and sea bass. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Cabello served as general manager for Culmarex II and oversaw the development of sea cages for offshore production of 1000 tons per year of sea bass and sea bream.
Gerry M. Schwartzis intended to be our Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Schwartz has been evolved in seafood marketing with major seafood companies as Conner’s Bros and Bumble Bee Seafood as National Sales Manager. Mr. Schwartz holds a B.A. degree is business administration from Rider College, Trenton New Jersey.
Elizabeth Theiriot, is intended to be our Vice President – Business and Governmental Affairs, following the successful conclusion of our current financing round. Currently, she is the Corporate Development Strategist at Phone Charge International Inc., an electronic data security business formed in 2006. Until its sale in 2006, she served in a similar role at Phone Charge, Inc., a company she helped start in 1994. Ms. Theiriot chairs the advisory board of In-Touch Group and serves as a member of the advisory board at Anchor Free Wireless Services, both positions which she has held since 2005. Ms. Theiriot holds a masters degree in broadcast journalism from the New York Institute of Technology.
S. Randall Hobgood, MD, has been a director of our Company since December 1998. Dr. Hobgood is a Vice President of Pensacola Radiology Consultants, P.A., a position he has held since January 1975. Dr. Hobgood holds a B.E.E. in electrical engineering, an M.S. in Radiation Biophysics and an M.D., each from the University of Florida.
Phillip G. Lee, PhD, became a director and Chief Biologist of our Company on May 10, 2007. He has been working with us since 1999 through a research agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch, at which university he is a professor. Dr. Lee holds a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Oklahoma, a M.S. in Marine Science from the University of South Florida, and a Ph.D. in Nutrition from Texas A&M University, specializing in marine hatchery and nutrition requirements for growing marine organisms. Dr. Lee has over 20 years experience in collecting, transporting and rearing marine invertebrates, with particular emphasis on cephalopods and crustaceans. He has also designed, constructed, and patented recirculating aquaculture systems. Since 1995, Dr. Lee has been the Director of the National Resource Center for Cephalopods at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, which Center is supported in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and a grant from the Texas Institute of Oceanography. He has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics, and Preventative Medicine and Community Health since 1985. Dr. Lee has published more than 60 scientific articles on aquaculture, has 26 patents and patent applications on aquaculture systems and feeds, and is a member of many scientific societies. Dr. Lee has lectured for various associations at the state, national and international level.
Charles Salisbury, MD. has been a director of our Company since 2003. Dr. Salisbury received his MD from the University of Georgia and is a practicing eye surgeon in Mobile, Alabama.
In addition to the above management personnel, the following individuals serve as consultants to us and provide advice to us with respect to our on-going and proposed operations:
Arie de Bondt, serves as an advisor to our Company. He previously was a director of our Company from December 8, 2001 to May 10, 2007 pursuant to our then arrangement with of HESY Bergambacht BV in the Netherlands, a commercial designer and installer of reci
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