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Dr. Robert Portman was renamed President and Chief Executive Officer in June 2005. Dr. Portman was Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Scientific Officer in September 2004. Previously served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since its inception. Dr. Portman has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and worked as a senior scientist at Schering Laboratories before co-founding M.E.D. Communications in 1974. In 1987, Dr. Portman started a consumer agency and, in 1993, he merged both agencies to form C&M Advertising. C&M Advertising, with billings in excess of $100 million, handled national advertising for such diverse accounts as Berlex Laboratories, Ortho-McNeil Laboratories, Tetley Tea, Radisson Hotels and HIP of New Jersey. In September 1996, Dr. Portman sold his interest in C&M Advertising. | 