Frederick E. Smithline has been a director of our company since September 25, 2006. Mr. Smithline has been practicing corporate law in New York City for over 40 years. After graduation from The Harvard Law School in 1955, Mr. Smithline served for two years in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in Germany.

From 1957 to date, he has been practicing corporate and securities law in various law firms, except for the period from 1969 to 1973, when he was a principal in two Wall Street investment banking firms. From 1982 to the present, Mr. Smithline was a Partner and Counsel in Epstein, Becker and Green, Counsel to Fischbein, Badillo, Wagner & Harding and presently, Counsel to Eaton & Van Winkle.

Mr. Smithline specializes in advising early stage companies on structure and finance. He has served on public boards including more than 20 years as a director and then Chairman of DVL, Inc., a publicly traded finance company (1982 to 2003) and the Hungarian Broadcast Company, a media Company (1998 to 2000). He was a co founder of International Isotopes, Inc., a publicly-traded company that is in the business of making radioactive isotopes for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.