Kevin M. McGovern, has served as Chairman and CEO of McGovern Capital LLC, since April 2000 which provides Intellectual Property Rights strategy and originates, structures, and implements capital formation, joint ventures, and business alliances.  Mr. McGovern has also served as the chairman of Greenwich Alliances, Ltd., since January 1997 which specializes in the formulation and negotiation of strategic alliances and has participated in over 20 business alliances worldwide.  He has been the owner and managing partner of the law firm McGovern & Associates since January 1983, located in New York, New York.  The firm specializes in corporate law, with an emphasis on emerging businesses, merger and acquisitions, venture capital, patent enforcement, and research and development financings.  Mr. McGovern is a founder and/or key shareholder in over 20 companies, and five of the companies he co-founded or in which he is a key participant – all based on proprietary technologies – are currently leaders in their respective industry’s product categories.  These companies include SOBE Beverages (nutraceutical leader sold to Pepsi); TriStrata, the worldwide owner of all Intellectual Property to Alpha Hydroxy Acids comprising the single most successful technology in skin care history and KX Industries, the world leader in consumer carbon, water and air filters.  He has also served as the Co-Chairman of Angstrom Publishing which publishes with Forbes worldwide “The Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report” since 2002.  He formerly served on the Board of the Sports Authority (NYSE) (Exec, Audit and Comp committees) and Nobel Education Learning Communities, Inc. (NYSE).  Mr. McGovern has served on Cornell University’s Board of Trustees since July 2001 and has served as Co-Chairman of the Technology/IP Committee since July 2006.  He also currently teaches at the Cornell/Johnson graduate business school, a course entitled “Global Innovation and Commercialization”.  Mr. McGovern received his A.B. from Cornell University in 1970 and his JD in 1975 St. John’s University School of Law.