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Board of Directors
Mr.QingRan Zhu Chairman & Executive Director Mr. Zhu has over 20 years of experience working in the sales and marketing of feed products in the PRC agricultural industry. Before co-founding Changda Fertilizer and Changda Chemical, Mr. Zhu was the Vice General Manager of Weifang Legang Food Company and obtained extensive knowledge about food
production, and consequently food and health regulations in the domestic market. Mr. Zhu graduated from Weifang Vocational College with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics Administration.
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Mr.HuaRan Zhu Executive Director Mr. Zhu has over 20 years of experience working in the chemical industry. Before co-founding Changda Fertilizer and Changda Chemical, Mr. Zhu was in charge of the production workshop and machinery safety department in Shandong Haihua Group, thereby building years of expertise and experience in the
production and safety of chemical products. Mr. Zhu graduated from the University of Shandong Government Official Distance-Learning.
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Carsten Aschoff Independent Director Mr. Aschoff has over 10 years’ management experience with various technology companies in both Germany and the PRC. Mr. Aschoff is currently the director of Siger Trading Ltd and Siger Technologies GmbH in Germany since March 2006 and August 2006 respectively. From July 2005 to March 2006,
Mr.Aschoff was involved in freelance consulting work in the PRC. Between 2002 and June 2005, Mr. Aschoff was the general manager for Shandong Linuo Paradigma Co. Ltd. in Jinan, China. He was responsible for business development, production and distribution of solar thermal systems. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Aschoff was the lecturer at the University of Applied Science HFT in Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture – “technical development” and “sustainable building”. Between 1996 and 2001, Mr. Aschoff was working in the product management in Paradigma Energie-und Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Karlsbad, Germany.
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David Cohen Independent Director Mr. Cohen is a licensed attorney who has been a Member of the New York State Bar Association for the last 25 years. For the last 5 years he has been a sole practitioner with a general business law practice with a specialty in litigation and creditors’ issues. Previously, David managed the bankruptcy practice at
Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. and prior to that was a partner at Cohen & Lippman, LLP a law firm with primarily a business law practice. Mr. Cohen is a Graduate of New York Law School.From 2001 to 2004, David Cohen has served as an independent Director of Laidlaw Global Corporation, a Financial Holding company with multiple subsidiaries while the Company was listed on the American Stock Exchange and for a time on the OTC Bulletin-Board. In that function, he served as an independent Director and Member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Cohen served in the United States military in a communication unit based in Germany and was a Senior Executive for an Aviation company headquartered in Vienna, Austria with worldwide charter operations.
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Craig Marshak Independent Director Mr. Marshak has extensive experience in the area of corporate finance, having co-founded Trafalgar Capital Advisors, and the Trafalgar Capital Specialized Investment Fund, registered in Luxembourg. Mr. Marshak has served as Head of Investment Banking and Partner since its launch in January 2007.
During this period, Mr. Marshak advised on the $45 million capital raising for Wits Basins acquisition of the Xiaonanshan Iron Ore Project in the Anhui Province in Eastern China, (west of Shanghai), where London Capital PLC was introduced as a Strategic Partner. Prior to that, Mr. Marshak served as Co-Head of the Nomura Technology and Growth Capital Principal Investment Fund and Corporate Finance group from February 1998 to January 2001. Among the projects Mr. Marshak advised on during his time at Nomura was the first round institutional investment into Shopping.com and its predecessor DealTime, later sold to Ebay for $600 million. Thereafter, Mr. Marshak was active in Israel related Venture Capital having served on the Board of Directors of Arbel Capital, a Technology Investment Bank headquartered in Tel Aviv, where he served as head of International Investment Banking, and advised on the pre-IPO and Listing of Medgenics on the London Stock Exchange AIM Market. During this time, Mr. Marshak acted as Senior Advisor to ARM Corporate Finance, a London headquartered investment banking firm now part of Religare Hitchens Harrison.
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Management
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Mr.QingRan Zhu Chief Executive Officer Mr. Zhu has over 20 years of experience working in the sales and marketing of feed products in the PRC agricultural industry. Before co-founding Changda Fertilizer and Changda Chemical, Mr. Zhu was the Vice General Manager of Weifang Legang Food Company and obtained extensive knowledge about food
production, and consequently food and health regulations in the domestic market. Mr. Zhu graduated from Weifang Vocational College with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics Administration.
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Mr. Jan Panneman Executive Vice President
Mr. Jan Panneman is the Executive Vice President - Strategic Planning & External Relations of Changda International Holdings, Inc. He has six years of experience as a project manager and independent business advisor in the City of London. Mr. Panneman is also a co-founder of Qingdao China Partners
Investment Advisory, a Peoples Republic of China (“PRC”) centric strategic management advisory company, which was successfully merged in 2007 with now PLUS Markets quoted Geo Genesis Group Ltd. Mr. Panneman currently lives and works in the PRC.
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Leodegario Quinto Camacho Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Camacho has over 34 years of experience as a financial controller in both public and private companies in the United States and the Philippines. As a professional Certified Public Accountant for 33 years, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New Jersey Society of
Certified Public Accountants and Association of Filipino-American Accountants. Mr. Camacho is currently serving in a CPA firm Camacho & Camacho LLP in New Jersey.
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