Board of Directors

Jeff Michel - CEO and Chairman
Jeffrey W. Michel is married with two young children and has been a resident of Florida for seventeen years. Mr. Michel was Honorably discharged from the U.S. Coast Guard after a successful tour of duty in the field of Drug Interdiction and Border Control. Mr. Michel was then recruited into the Retail Investment Banking field to apply his expertise and determination to a new regional firm that specialized in small caps, new market entrants, and start-ups. He has over twenty years of corporate experience including more than a decade working for various small cap retail broker / dealer firms, at the senior corporate level, specializing in business development, compliance, and cost containment. His underwriting experience ranges in complexity from straight equity financings, IPO’s, PIPEs, debt, RTO’s, and convertible debt to M&A arrangements.

Mr. Michel currently is the Managing Director of Southwood Partners Ltd. where he consults to public and private companies on debt restructuring, public market management, investor relations, DTC analysis, strategic partnerships, and corporate governance.

Mr. Michel has obtained Professional Licenses- FINRA Registered Representative Series 7, 24, 4 and 63.

Jonathan Harrison, Non- Executive Director
Jonathan is currently the Finance Director for AIM listed Sirius Exploration and privately held Crystal River Resources Ltd. He is a Chartered Accountant with experience in quoted and unquoted companies.

Previously Jonathan spent 16 years at Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, where he held various positions, including Vice President of Finance. In 1989, he joined Boddington Group plc (“Boddington”), where he developed and became Operations Director of the Village Leisure Hotels division, responsible for the operation of six leisure hotels. Between February 1994 and September 1995, while still at the Boddington, he was Finance Director of Country House Retirement Homes Limited during which time the number of nursing homes nearly doubled to 31 nursing homes. In March 1997, he led a management buy-in of 25 hotels from Queens Moat Houses plc with Duke Street Capital. Six months later he managed the refinancing of the new group, County Hotels Group plc, through a listed bond offering and, in January 1999, successfully sold the company to Regal Hotel Group plc. In September 1999, he joined Topnotch Health Clubs plc and in March 2000 oversaw the company’s admission to AIM.

The Company will continue to seek strong personnel that will contribute value oriented services and bring years of experience to the Company.

Mr. Terence Fuller, Non-Executive Director

Mr. Fuller  gained a BSc,(Hons) in Economics and International Politics from the University of Wales and then moved into publishing with a period as Marketing Director and shareholder at New Opportunity Press. His move into management consultancy was in 1975 with the Charles Barker Group, then the largest independent UK advertising and communications company. After a short period with Lopex PLC in their consultancy firm, he joined Spicer’s Consulting Group, the management consultancy division of the international accountancy practice, Spicer & Oppenheim and later was a shareholder and ultimately Managing Director of the consultancy subsidiary of HLB Kidsons (also an accounting practice).From mid-2001, he has had his own business providing Board level consultancy for fully listed, AIM quoted and smaller companies. This includes supplying non-executive chairmen and directors. He is a non-executive director of Singapore based, UK AIM listed Kenetics Group.