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Lorne Meikle

Lorne is well qualified to lead TBI as he has been the CEO of nine companies in the biotechnology area, both in the public arena and private industry. Lorne is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Management Dynamics Ltd., a private company developing technologies in the biotechnology and water resource areas, LOB Ordeins Inc., a private company concentrating on delivery technologies for human therapeutics and CEO of Neuroimage Inc.. In addition to returning as the President and Chair of TBI, Lorne is also a director for Quest PharmaTech Inc. of Edmonton.

Lorne Meikle is the former President & CEO of BCY LifeSciences Inc. (TSXV:BCY) and was a member of the Executive Committee for The Biotechnology Initiative (TBI), before his return as President. Lorne was born and raised in Edmonton and is an economics graduate from the University of Manitoba. He has more than 40 years of senior management, marketing and sales management, and director experience in the health care industry. He was a member of the senior management groups at Glaxo Canada, Smith Kline and French, Ortho-McNeil and directed the International marketing program at Connaught Laboratories, now Sanofi Pasteur.

In addition to his Pharma industry experience at the VP level, he was President of TBI, Vice President, Immunovaccine Technologies Inc., President and Chief Executive Officer of Seragen Biopharmaceuticals Ltd., the Canadian affiliate of Seragen Inc., now part of Ligand, Inc., CEO of GeneSense Technologies Inc., now part of Lorus Therapeutics, and chaired the steering committee for BIO 2002 in Toronto. Additionally, he was the President, Chief Executive Officer, Founder and a director of BioCatalyst Yorkton Inc., a venture management company that specialized in the formation of and management of early-stage healthcare companies.

Lorne, is married to Brenda and has four children and seven grandchildren.