HANS ROTH

Hans Roth is an entrepreneurial executive with 10 years of progressive experience building high-performance teams and products within small and large biotech and software firms. Mr. Roth conceived, funded and led development of cutting-edge solutions, resulting in a sale of one company to Network Solutions (now VeriSign - VRSN); he also advised a major telecom in its national launch and marketing of a consumer ISP service. Prior to these ventures, Mr. Roth led core growth initiatives within a multi-national biotech firm. As an expatriate, he established a direct marketing presence in Brazil; he and his team registered, manufactured and launched 5 products successfully, growing sales to nearly $50 million and operating profit over 100% annually. Mr. Roth later became liaison to his firm's US and Japanese parent companies in structuring international product development strategies; efforts which contributed significantly to an acquisition of the company by AstraZeneca (AZN). Mr. Roth received a Bachelor of Science in Business Finance at Montana State University; he furthered his education at University of Michigan Business School in Operations Management.