Philip Renaud
Chairman

Mr Philip Renaud is Managing Director of Church Advisors, a European investment advisory firm involved in private financings. A graduate of Franklin College of Switzerland with a Bachelor of Arts in international financial management, Mr Renaud has been instrumental in securing many private equity financings and has an extensive European and North American network. Prior to his involvement with Church Advisors, Mr Renaud was a founding partner of Change Capital Partners, a 300 million Euro private equity fund. He is also director of Yorbeau Resources of a public exploration company, namely Dia Bras Exploration.

André Larente
Director

André Larente is the President of DIAGNOS inc. He has been active in the information technology sector for more than 26 years. He has previously held leading management positions with companies such as Siemens, Syscan International, Newbridge Networks, Legent; Cognos, Tandem Computers and Honeywell Information Systems. His extensive business contacts and experience in the information technology sector make him ideally suited to lead DIAGNOS through an anticipated period of strong growth.

Olivier Lerolle
Director

A French national and a permanent resident of Switzerland since 1985, Olivier Lerolle was granted a degree by Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. He brings to the firm over thirty years of international banking, business management and consulting experience - he held several management positions with Citibank (in New York) and Banque Indosuez. The functions held in the latter included those of Head of International Loan Syndication in Paris, Head of Project Finance in South East Asia and General Manager of Indosuez Finance in Geneva. In this last role, he was in charge of capital markets and mergers & acquisitions. He is an accomplished and respected businessman, with considerable experience in conducting business strategy, financing and development mandates on behalf of privately-held and state-owned companies in Europe and North America.

Bruno Maruzzo
Director

Mr Bruno Maruzzo has over 20 years experience in working with small to medium size technology companies in the medical and biotechnology fields as well as working in venture capital investing in technology oriented companies. Through his consulting company, TechnoVenture Inc., he has provided general management, financing, business development and technical services to a variety of private and public technology companies.

Mr Maruzzo has a unique blend of expertise and experience in seeking funds for technology companies and making investments in technology companies. Being on both sides of a transaction at different times, has given him great insights into company formation, financing and management.

Mr Maruzzo holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo an MASC in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA, both from the University of Toronto.