William J. Ritger

• Asset management experience. Mr. Ritger has invested in more than 200 equity private placements over multi decades. He and colleague Dr. O'Donnell were the GP managers of two previous hedge funds.
• 25+ years of professional equity research experience. Founder & CEO of The Research Works, Inc. (1992–08), an equity research boutique. Earlier a senior research analyst at Dillon Read & Co., Inc.; Needham and Company, LLC; Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.; Kidder Peabody & Co., Inc.; Argus Research Corporation; and Standard & Poor’s Corporation. Former Institutional Investor Magazine All-America research analyst in the emerging growth sector.
• Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination. – Series 65.
• Columbia Graduate School of Business Administration. MBA (Finance) in 1973.
• Duke University. BA (Economics) in 1971.

Denis M. O’Donnell, MD

• Asset management experience. Dr. O’Donnell and affiliated entities have invested in more than 100 private placements over the past 20 years. He and Mr. Ritger were the GP managers of two previous hedge funds.
• 20+ years’ in life science corporate management. Former founding President and Executive Chairman of Novavax, Inc., former CEO of Molecular Diagnostics, Inc., and former director of five publicly traded companies.
• Medical and clinical experience. This includes being an investigator on more than 400 FDA human clinical studies and a fellow at The American College of Clinical Pharmacology.
• Tufts University/New England Medical Center. Residency.
• AUC School of Medicine. MD in 1984.
• Harvard University. AB (Biology) in 1976.