TUCSON, Ariz., March 9, 2013. Bourque Industries, Inc. (OTC:
BORK), a development stage company in the process of
commercializing its patented Kryron metal-alloying process using
nanotechnology to fundamentally alter common metals at the
molecular level to create ultra-high performing super alloys,
announced its new, confirmed Board of Directors.
The Board of Directors was expanded from three to eight
seats. The board will
retain two members from the previous Board of Directors, Charmaine
“Sandy” Berry and Carol “CJ” Condon. Joining Ms. Berry and
Ms. Condon on the board are Raymond Humphrey, Brent Willis, Matthew
L. Schissler, Michael Kotelec, Joel Heffron, and Scott
Stover. Management has
selected the forgoing members based upon their business expertise
and experience, and believes the board will quickly propel the
Company.
The first newly constituted Board of Directors meeting recorded a
unanimous vote for Mr. Sean Floyd to continue as President and
interim Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Sandy Berry to remain as
Company Treasurer and Ms. Carol Condon to remain as Company
Secretary, while unanimously electing Mr. Matthew L. Schissler to
act as Chairman of the Board. The Company agreed it will
initiate a search for a new Chief Financial Officer.
The background for each of the eight Board Members, who now
comprise the new Board of Directors of Bourque Industries, Inc., is
set forth below:
Raymond Humphrey is an
internationally recognized leader in the security-risk management
field with extensive experience at the most senior levels of
government and industry. Mr. Humphrey evaluates homeland
security preparedness, deterrence, business continuity, consequence
management, introduction of leading-edge security technology and
similar initiatives at the municipal, state and organizational
levels within the United States and other countries. Ray was also honored at the White
House by President Lyndon Johnson as being one of 45 most
outstanding young Americans. He retired as a Colonel following
20 years of service in the U.S. Army and remains the only
individual to have served as both President of ASIS International
and the International Security Management Association
(ISMA).
Although
not all inclusive, Mr. Humphrey has also served as a board member
of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
Foundation; and as a member of the (U.S.) President’s Export
Council Subcommittee on Encryption; committee chairperson of the
U.S. Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council
(OSAC); the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), and the
National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC). He has done pro-bono
work in developing tools, training, and techniques for a number of
public service entities, such as the New York City Police
Department, Rochester (NY) Police Department, etc.
Mr.
Humphrey serves as a member of the Naples’ (Florida) Citizen Police
Review Board. Just
recently he co-authored “What Corporate America Needs to Know About
Bioterrorism,” in “The Executive’s Desk Book on Corporate Risks and
Response for Homeland Security” (National Legal Center for the
Public Interest, 2003). Mr. Humphrey has a Masters of
Public Administration Degree from Syracuse University’s Maxwell
School (New York), an undergraduate degree from Norwich University
(Vermont), and is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Command and General
Staff College. He was
the security profession’s first recipient of its “Executive of the
Year Award” for professional excellence and was uniquely honored by
the Masonic Order in being designated a Mason at Sight.
Brent Willis is
a decorated former Military Officer and successful business
leader. From 2010 to 2012 he served as the Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman of the Board of Liberty Ammunition, a private
later-stage start-up company, which has developed and is
commercializing its product portfolio and technologies.
Liberty is in possession of world-leading, high-performance,
lead-free rifle and handgun ammunition that is industry disruptive
and trans-formative in capabilities for U.S. soldiers and
their closest allies. Liberty under Mr. Willis’ helm
was awarded a patent on firearm projectile technologies and
filed for five additional patents for
further embodiment’s on its initial patent for both rifle
and handgun ammunition. From 2006 to 2008 Mr. Willis
served as CEO for Cott Corporation, a Company in the business of
beverage manufacturing and sales. Mr. Willis’ duties included
leadership of this roughly $2Billion enterprise, management of more
than 20 manufacturing plants, and leadership of more than 10,000
people.
From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Willis served as Chief Commercial Officer and
President for InBev, a company in the business of beverage
manufacturing and sales. Mr. Willis’ duties included
leadership of top-line growth for this more than $20 Billion
enterprise, management of more than 20 manufacturing plants and a
sales and marketing budget of more than €3.3 billion and leadership
of more than 20,000 people. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Willis served as
President North Latin America for The Coca-Cola Company, a company
in the business of beverage manufacturing and sales. Mr.
Willis’ duties included leadership of this roughly $2Billion
enterprise, management of more than 40 manufacturing plants and
leadership of more than 20,000 people.
Mr. Willis began his career as a Second Lieutenant in the United
States Army in 1982. He served in various combat arms leadership
capacities around the world including assignments in the 1st
Cavalry Division and the Pentagon. He worked on the Strategic
Defense Initiative (Star Wars) and numerous other compartmentalized
(black ops) programs including the Army Robotics Initiatives and
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle initiatives. He authored the
Counter-Air Concept to change the role of Air Defense, which was
later adopted as doctrine. He received numerous decorations,
including two Meritorious Service Medals, two Army Commendation
Medals, the Army Achievement Medal, and the Airborne Parachutist
badge during his military career; he was honorably discharged with
the rank of Captain. He received his B.S. Degree in Engineering
from the US Military Academy at West Point and an MBA Degree from
the University of Chicago.
Matthew L. Schissler currently
serves as founder and Managing Member of Pyrenees Investments, a
private financial advisory firm, where he advises on various
microcap public company structures and capitalization. The firm
utilizes a vast network for introduction to institutional
investors, accredited investors, microcap specialty funds, legal
consultants, auditors, GAAP financial preparers, and lenders to
provide seed, start-up and early stage capital, compliance and
governance.
Typical advisory services, include building legal and auditing
relationships, debt consolidation and balance sheet clean-up, turn
around and up-listing services, and later stage financing. The firm
currently consults with over a dozen microcap public company
clients, while Mr. Schissler serves on the Board of Directors for
three of them.
Prior to this, Mr. Schissler was the founder and served as Chairman
of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Cord Blood
America, Inc., a company specializing in the harvesting and storage
of Stem Cells in the US and abroad, from 2003 through the middle of
2012. In this capacity he was responsible for a series of
public and private offerings, which raised over $30 million in
various forms of equity and debt used to grow from a two person
operation in 2003, to building or acquiring laboratories and
operations on four continents. The capital was used to complete
seven acquisitions of either asset purchases or stock purchases,
and also placing three minority investments into other stem cell
storage companies globally.
Mr. Schissler served on various community and economic development
boards including The Nevada Development Authority Biotech
Committee, The Las Vegas Science Festival and the Las Vegas Natural
History Museum. Mr.
Schissler was a semi-finalist for the Los Angeles Ernst and Young
“Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2008. Although not all inclusive,
additionally Mr. Schissler served in founding and/or leadership
roles for China Stem Cells, Inc and Frozen Food Gift
Group. Mr. Schissler
earned his B.A. degree in Biology and Public Policy from St. Mary’s
College of Maryland.
Michael Kotelec
serves as Executive Vice President in DHR’s Silicon Valley office.
Mr. Kotelec
specializes in the industrial, cleantech, advanced technology,
consumer products, venture capital and private equity
sectors.
Mr. Kotelec brings to the executive search community over 25 years
of delivering global growth throughout the U.S., Europe, Middle
East, Latin America, and Asia. Prior to joining DHR, Mr. Kotelec
held senior executive positions in general management, marketing,
sales, supply chain, and operations with AlliedSignal, Honeywell,
Nanoconduction, Sabanci Holdings, and Kennametal. He has extensive expertise in
advanced materials, specialty alloys, and end use applications as
diverse as ballistic armor, textiles, microprocessors, LEDs, and
advanced metallurgy for aerospace, automotive, and
agriculture.
Much of his corporate career was spent as an expatriate in Europe
and Asia Pacific where he focused on developing international
expansion through strategic alliances, organic growth, acquisitions
and customer partnerships. In Asia Pacific his China team Won
AlliedSignal’s Six Sigma Premier Achievement Award for new plant
start-up and new product commercialization. He was consistently recognized as
a metrics focused leader proficient in directing multi-site
operations, business model restructuring, and cost control with
adept management of cultural and organizational diversity.
Mr. Kotelec is a
graduate of Hamden-Sydney College with a BA in Government and
Foreign Affairs. He
holds an MBA from the College of William and Mary in International
Marketing.
Joel
Heffron offers
sale, merger and money raising services to small and middle-market
companies with annual revenues ranging from $2 to $30 million.
He specializes in
representing both public and private companies, who are interesting
in acquisitions and mergers for growth and development. Since 1986, he has worked with
owners of small to middle-market companies to buy and sell assets
to maximize the returns.
Mr.
Heffron started his career in New York, practicing law with Sohn,
Gross, Findlay & Heffron. After working in the areas of
real estate, corporate and licensing development, he became
Executive Vice President of a $100 million retail company, Treasure
City Department Stores. Treasure was subsequently merged
into a NYSE listed company. He then became a principal of
ABCO Tableware Inc., a major supplier of tableware to the airline
and hotel industries. The company was merged into a
public company located in the UK. Following that, Mr. Heffron became
a Principal of Westminster Equities Ltd, an owner and operator of
19 real estate limited partnerships of income producing properties.
Mr. Heffron graduated
from the Wharton School of Finance, and has a Bachelor of Laws from
New York University School of Law. He is a member of the Bar of the
State of New York, and is a licensed real estate broker in both
California and New York.
Scott
Stover brings
27 years of defense and aerospace industry experience. Scott joined R.S. Hughes in 1986
as a field sales representative before taking a job with Hisco Inc.
in 1988 in Houston, Texas. Stover served in a variety of
growth positions for nearly 25 years to include Territory
Management in Houston, Texas and transferred to Phoenix, Arizona as
Branch Manager. Scott
was promoted to Vice President in 1996 for the Phoenix operation,
and expanded his business into Mexican market to open 3 locations
for HiscoMex. The combined operations soon became the second most
profitable business unit within Hisco.
In 2002,
Stover helped in the acquisition of Precision Converting and soon
integrated this business into the Tempe operation in
2007. This fabricating
unit was the catalysis for his development and the discovery of the
patented M-7 Spall System and the start of Defense Materials Group.
Defense Materials
Group was founded by Stover in 2007, which soon became the most
profitable business unit within Hisco’s $260MM annual sales volume
through the management of Stover. In 2010, Stover was asked to
become the Vice President and Business Development Manager of
Hisco’s Aerospace Defense business unit.
Charmaine S. ("Sandy") Berry
brings 30 years of veteran banking and commercial lending
experience to Bourque’s Board. Previously with Bank of America
in California and JPMorgan Chase & Company in New York where
she was Vice President & Division Manager managing a $196
billion portfolio working with 300+ top tier clients and Wall
Street Investment Houses, which included Goldman Sachs. Her staff of up to 200 managed 3
million negotiable assets in Houston and Dallas, Texas and
Brooklyn, New York.
Sandy was also on the Board of Directors of JPMorgan Chase Custody
Services, Inc. a company under the umbrella of JPMorgan Chase &
Company.
While working in Tucson, Arizona with a small financial
institution, she started up a “Small Business” lending program
working with small business owners to find solutions for their
financial services borrowing and banking needs and this is where
she met and helped promote John Bourque’s invention and business
startup. She also
worked with a local Congressman speaking at various events to help
educate small business owners on lending facilities open to them
during the “great” recession. Among Sandy’s accomplishments,
she was selected from commercial lenders across the country to
receive an invitation to the White House to attend the Jobs Signing
Bill in September, 2010 and received a televised handshake from the
President of the United States.
Sandy has been on the Bourque Industries Board of Directors since
2011.
Carol J. (“CJ”) Condon
has been an Executive Vice President with and invested in John
Bourque’s startup companies, since 2008. She brings a wealth of business
knowledge with her and performs all administrative functions for
the company.
CJ previously owned her own company and worked in the insurance
industry for many years, which helped her advise and complete many
of the functions needed for the original startup of Bourque’s
companies.
CJ has been the Bourque Industries Board Secretary since
2011.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Bourque Industries,
Inc.
Sean Floyd
was selected to be Bourque Industries’ President and Interim Chief
Executive Officer due to his wealth of business knowledge in
building companies, negotiating license agreements, and sales and
marketing expertise.
Sean learned of Bourque Industries and upon researching the
company, he called John Bourque directly and offered his services
free of charge through his own company to create a better Website
to promote the invention. Subsequently, Sean was offered
and accepted a Vice President position with the company, left his
company to his partner, moved his family from Atlanta to Tucson,
and immediately began working on powerful agreements for Kryron
products soon to come to fruition.
Mr. Floyd previously founded and operated 5th Avenue
Media/Marketing/Photography a national company specializing in
Marketing/Media and photography providing marketing information for
magazine publishing companies, newspaper advertisements, celebrity
relations, Web Design and E-Commerce for companies such as Porsche,
Nissan, Rooms to Go, PGA Golf, Century 21 and WCI to name a
few.
To add to Mr. Floyd’s CEO experience, he was also President/CEO and
Founder of AerCom Tec International. ACT Manufactured and set up
distribution Network GPS and Cellular products. He was responsible for the
overall operations of the company, including oversight of contract
negotiations and national contracts with these billion dollar
companies. National
contracts were obtained with BellSouth/Cellemetry nationally and
BellMobiltiy of Canada, the very first National Agreements in the
USA and Canada to use data over the Cellular Control
Channel. Licensing
agreements were also obtained with companies such as Anheuser-Busch
Co. and Caterpillar.
Additional information on Mr. Floyd’s accomplishments through
AerCom Tec may be found in the following link: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BellSouth+Cellemetry+Data+Service+and+AerComTec+Deliver+New+Fleet...-a020549772
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