Mr. Kevin M. McGovern is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at McGovern Capital LLC. He is also the Principal at McGovern & Associates and an Operating Partner at Tri-Artisan Capital Partners, LLC. Mr. McGovern is a Founder and key shareholder in over 20 companies, six of which are the worldwide leaders in their respective industry's product categories, including SOBE and TriStrata. He is a rights holder and heads the worldwide licensing program for NeoStrata Inc. Mr. McGovern is a part owner and coordinates the worldwide patent enforcement program for VLIW Technologies LLC. He is a part owner and IP Strategist for Aquea Scientific. In his business activities, he has helped lead many of his Partners and clients to the forefront of their respective industries. Mr. McGovern has been a Principal Negotiator and participant to over 40 strategic alliances, approximately 40% of which have been foreign joint ventures. He has been a participant and Head Negotiator in many equity financings and ventures which have raised substantial sums in committed fundings and royalties with venture capital firms as Prudential, First Chicago, Alan Patricof Associates, Warburg Pincus, Medtech, and Oxford Partners. Mr. McGovern has been engaged by entrepreneurs and other law firms to help develop and commercialize proprietary concepts and to structure and negotiate venture and acquisition-related transactions. He was one of the three investing Founders of South Beach Beverages. Mr. McGovern is the Chairman of Board of Directors and Member of Advisory Board of The Water Initiative, Inc. He is the Chairman of Greenwich Alliances and Aquea's Board of Advisor and Co-Chairman for Angstrom Partners LLC and Silver Shield Foundation. Mr. McGovern has been appointed Vice-Chairman of KX's international entity. Mr. McGovern is a Director of New York Business Roundtable Inc and serves as a Member of Compensation, Nominating, Audit, and Governance Committees. In addition, he has also been a Director of The Sports Authority, Inc. since 2000. Mr. McGovern is also a Trustee of Cornell University. He has been a Member of the Board of Trustees since 2001, is a Co-Chairman of Technology and IP Committee, Vice Chairman of the Research Committee, Member of Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life, Member of Task Force on Athletics, and is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Cornell Research Foundation. Mr. McGovern was recently appointed to the Life Sciences Advisory Board as Co-Chairman of the Tech Transfer Committee and the Board of the Cornell Hotel School. He has been appointed to serve on the Executive Council for the Cornell Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Cornell Johnson Business School. Mr. McGovern has served on the Cornell University Trustee Council, Administrative Board. He is a Founder and Charter Member of the Cornell Club and a Member of the Cornell Advisory Council, Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Executive Committee, and the Search Committee for CCTEC Executive Director. Mr. McGovern serves on the Board of the Fraternity and Sorority Advisory Council was on the Committee on Asia Strategy from 1996 to 2004 and hosted the President Rawlings' visit to Shanghai in 1998. He has been on the Arts and Sciences Advisory Council from 1995 and is the Chairman of its Marketing Subcommittee. Mr. McGovern has been a part of the Athletic Advisory Council from 1996 and is the Co-Chairman of the Marketing Subcommittee. He has also been a part of the Inter Fraternity Council since 2000 and was a part of the 1970 Class 25th Reunion Major Gifts Committee. Mr. McGovern ranked 1st in participation and 3rd in giving in the 1970 Class 30th Reunion and was the Co-Chair of Major Gifts Committee. He has been on the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Advisory Board since 1994 and has been a Member of the Executive Commitee since 2000 and of the Membership Committee since 1997. Mr. McGovern was involved with the University Council from 1995 to 1999 and was a part of its Nominating Committee in 1998, Administrative Board from 1996 to 1998, and Membership Committee from 1996 to 1997. He was also on the Athletics Alumni Ambassadors Network Advisory Committee from 1996 to 1998, the Metro New York Tower Club Committee from 1992 onwards until present, CAAAN from 1978 until present, and Investment Committee Meetings in Florida from 1998 through 2004. In 1994, Mr. McGovern established the Kevin McGovern Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Excellence Fund, which provides support for the Dean's Discretionary Funds in the Samuel C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. In November 1998, he established the McGovern Family Cornell Scholarship as part of Scholarship Campaign. Mr. McGovern was a Donor for the EPE Sponsored Scholarship in 1995, Sports Fund Campaign Donor, and EPE Fund Campaign Donor. He has hosted the Distinguished Alumni and Investment Committee Cocktail Reception and Dinner in February 2003, 2004, 2005, The Arts and Sciences Council Cocktail Party at the Trump Tower, New York City in Fall 2000, Cornell Victorious Campaign Breakfast in Fall 2000 and Dinner in Fall 2003, Hockey and the Lacrosse Coach's Golf outing at Stanwich Club in Fall 2000. Mr. McGovern also hosted the President Rawlings Golf Outing at Stanwich in 1997, President Rawlings Golf Outing at Hudson National in 1997, and Provost Don and Carol Randel's weekend in Greenwich in 1996. Mr. McGovern is the ALS: Professor Streeter lecturer as well as judge for business plans contest each year. He was also involved with the University Council Weekend, China Update in 1997. He was a Lecturer at Johnson Business School and Speaker and Panelist at Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Symposium on 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005, at Johnson Business School for the East Asia Distribution Case Study in 1996 and KX Water Purification case Study in 2004 and 2005. Mr. McGovern was also the luncheon speaker at Cornell Club of Fairfield County, on SoBe and Angel Investing in 2000. He is a Member of the Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania Bars and was a Member of the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association Section on Corporations. Mr. McGovern has spoken around the world at various venture, business, and educational meetings regarding capital formation, patent enforcement, and maximization of intellectual property value, business alliances, and ventures. He is a Fellow of the Foresight Institute. Mr. McGovern is also a Member of the SoBe Slope Day and Cayuga Society. He teaches a course at the Johnson Graduate School of Business at Cornell, entitled Global Innovation and Commercialization. Mr. McGovern was the keynote speaker at the Johnson Graduate School of Management's Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Symposium and is a frequent lecturer at the school. He was announced as the Cornell “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2006-2007. Mr. McGovern holds a J.D. from St. John's University School of Law in 1975, an A.B.

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