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GARY WALD – Partner Gary’s career includes stints with major advertising agencies (Ogilvy & Mather, Grey), consulting firms (Luminant) and Fortune 500 marketers (NBC, GTE/Verizon, Medtronic). His core competencies include growing revenues and profits, customer acquisition, building brands using innovative marketing programs, e-commerce, business development initiatives, licensing agreements and strategic alliance partnerships. Gary’s career successes include; Launching Aim Toothpaste; Re-branding Dove soap and growing sales to $300M ; Launching Transformers and building it into one of the industry’s most successful toy brands; Licensing Transformers, G.I. Joe and a full catalog of NBC television programs to broadcasters around the world; Building department store and chain drug retail distribution for new Revlon perfumes; Launching CNBC as a worldwide brand; Growing subscribers and generating licensing revenue for GTE’s (now Verizon) cable TV and Internet divisions; Initiating “personalized” M&M packs, with unique colors/messages, sold exclusively via e-commerce. Building affinity web sites for GlaxoSmithKlein pharmaceutical brands, Spearheading Medtronic Insulin Pump customer acquisition and retention strategies, growing sales to $500M+; developing unique a direct response program that generated 74% prospect response, 47% trial rate, and $19M year two sales for agriculture startup; Building TelaDoc Medical Services into the leading telemedicine provider with over 1.2 million paying members. Gary earned a marketing MBA from Northwestern University. CONNIE WALD – Partner Connie’s background includes marketing, CRM, database management, product development, new product introductions, advertising, promotion and merchandising. She has worked for Fortune 500 retailers, cosmetic marketers and advertising agencies. She spent eight years as Vice President of Marketing for Neiman Marcus where she helped grow Neiman Marcus stores revenue, by leading new store introductions, new customer acquisitions and dramatically increasing current customer spending. Connie began her career at Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, later holding buyer positions for Robinsons in Los Angeles and Gimbels in New York. She joined Avon Products as Marketing Manager of their skincare category and later served as Senior Marketing Manager of their make-up brands. Connie joined Hakuhodo Advertising Agency as Vice President, where she developed, positioned and promoted high-end brands for Hakuhodo clients Tsumora and Kirin Beer. Ms. Wald joined the Conair Corporation as Director of Account Services for their in-house advertising agency. In this capacity she directed all marketing strategy and creative work for Conair , Southwestern Bell Retail and Cuisinart products. Connie serves on the advisory board of the University of Wisconsin, School of Retailing. She is a former board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. ROBERT I. KRAMER, M.D. – Medical Advisor Dr. Bob is a teacher, practitioner, researcher, administrator, consultant, and visionary with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the health care world.

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