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Mr. Papadoyianis, age 48, has been an active figure in seafood/aquaculture for over twenty-two years. He has successfully implemented his production strategies in a diversity of aquaculture businesses throughout the world. He is the founder of Exotic Reef Technologies, Inc., and Marcon Development Corporation, and co-founder of Taurus Investments, Ltd. And Aquaculture Specialties, Inc. Mr. Papadoyianis was a former Director in S.M.A.R.T., Inc. and The Watermark Corporation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Striped Bass Growers Association, where he represents that sector of the industry.
He has formulated business plans and management strategies for a number of prior and on-going businesses. His reputation as a top producer of quality products is well substantiated in both the aquaculture and seafood industries. He has appeared in, and has been interviewed for, numerous industry publications including Fish Farming News, Fish Farming International and the South Florida Business Journal. In May, 2005, he appeared on the CNBC World Business Review with General Alexander Haig to discuss environmentally friendly aquaculture technology.
Over the last 15 years, Mr. Papadoyianis has engaged in the Development and capitalization of emerging businesses. He had structured management teams and directed activities for new product development, design and engineering of new technology applications, website and CD marketing and promotional development, and international sales.
Mr. Papadoyianis has a Masters Degree in Biology from Northeastern University. During this time, he was an integral part of a U.S. Government funded research team which involved the New England Aquarium, and explored the affects of drilling muds on benthic marine life. Shortly after the completion of this study, he was invited to join a U.S. Government funded research team from Harvard University. The team was formed to conduct an oceanographic and ecological impact study on a U.S. Nuclear Defense testing island in the South Pacific.
Mr. Papadoyianis has served as a production supervisor for a number Of aquaculture businesses including S.P. Engineering, Quality Pet Supply, O?Beirne Wholesale, and Aqualife Research Corporation. In this capacity, he has initiated hatchery protocol for the breeding, production and sale of over 60 species of freshwater and marine fish and shrimp. Included in these are certain food species including rainbow trout, coho salmon, tilapia, freshwater prawns, and bluegills. He also developed his own hatchery business in 1987 under Quality Pet Supply, where he supplied the bio-assay market with marine fish and shrimp for environmental testing.
Throughout his career, Mr. Papadoyianis has succeeded in Overcoming production problems at a diversity of aquaculture operations. His experience and technological know-how has led to production increases of 100 to 400% at all of his engagements, where dramatic improvements were realized in survival, growth, coloration, and elimination of disease. His experience with many fish and shrimp species has allowed him to become a pioneer in the culture of a number of new species on the commercial level as well. At the executive level, Mr. Papadoyianis has developed and written fish farming protocols for the commercial production of marine tropical fish and livestock.
Mr. Papadoyianis has consulted on a variety of existing and potential farming businesses throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. | 