Dr. Puchyr earned a PhD in chemical engineering while concurrently working at a Hyprotech, a chemical engineering process simulation company, in Calgary, Canada. In 1999, upon completion of his doctorate, he resigned from Hyprotech and built an extremely successful Internet cafe in Honolulu, Hawaii, which recently sold for 300,000US$. Wanting to make his mark in the corporate world, Dr. Puchyr moved to New York for the position of Associate at Goldman, Sachs & Co, a premier Wall Street firm, where he worked directly with bond traders and developed and maintained programs that automatically traded US government and agency bonds, both passively and aggressively, in real-time. Although Dr. Puchyr thrived in the high-intensity bond trading environment, his innate entrepreneurial spirit was undeniable. So, in January of 2003, he resigned from Goldman, Sachs & Co to develop businesses of his own. He is the inventor of Internet Oasis™.

An MBA graduate of IQS in Barcelona, Mr. Gifra's background includes a stint at Unilever, time in USAG Italy, and finally a passage through BBDO Spain where he was responsible for the development of the company's Internet Division. Following his experience in the corporate arena, Mr. Gifra embarked on a career as an entrepreneur creating his first successful start-up, EconomyWeb - a financial portal. After one year of operations, Ole.com bought into the project. Then Mr. Gifra became the co-founder of OLE, which was acquired by Telefonica Group (NYSE:TEF) in 1999 and folded into Terra-Lycos (NASDAQ:TRLY), managing its expansion in Latin America and the United States. Shortly after Terra's successful IPO, Mr. Gifra left to found Latinia Corp (2000-03), a leading wireless-based company that provides content and application services aimed at cell phone users throughout Southern Europe.

Mr. Vickery is specialised in international, multilingual consultancy in corporate finance, brand management, licensing and communications, usually providing a personal interface for business owners and/or their top management.

Mr. Vickery is British, 56 years of age, married with 4 children, lives in Paris. He has advised small and large corporations independently since 1975. Among corporate clients are, or have been: The City of St Moritz, APG (Air Promotion Group) - Paris; Czech & Speake of Jermyn Street - London; Old England; SwissEx - Zurich; Morabito - Paris; The World Sports Forum; Aquascutum; Yamaha; Adidas; Fac,onnable; Dunhill... and several international and private banks.

Mr. Vickery's holding company was 50% shareholder of a "boutique" investment bank in New York - "Crandall Vickery & Co Inc." - founded in 1986 which had a client base of small and medium size institutional investors across Europe, and was successfully sold in 1994 to one of its banking clients. His primary financial experience is in equities, corporate finance, and IPO's. He has held positions as non-executive director, or on advisory boards, on behalf of investment funds.

His particular successes have been in strategy work for companies with international development needs, providing coaching, help and solutions to non-nationals on how to work in new territories; assisting in the production of business plans; raising venture and development capital; structuring and negotiating deals alongside clients, (he has considerable experience in interfacing with legal counsel and negotiating terms with funds), but also in creative communications, international PR work, brand management and licensing. Mr. Vickery enjoys many excellent, long-standing relations with his consultants, clients, and their licensees, past and present. His experience, in these areas, ranges from luxury and sporting goods brand names to technology - particularly telecoms.

Mr. Vickery holds a Stone Age post-graduate (MBA) in international finance and marketing (High Wycombe, 1969) and other qualifications in finance, including from the NASD (1985). He has travelled to and worked in most world markets, but mostly in continental Europe. Mr. Vikery speaks English, French, German, Italian, and... fluent Mac.

Mr. Vickery has several companies in Switzerland - primarily based in Lucerne for over 20 years.

Mr. Seely is currently Associate Director of Finance & Business Development of The Stein Group, a general real estate company specialized in the acquisition, development and management of small, exclusive, luxury hotels across Europe. PWC recently ranked the Group as the fastest growing company in the boutique hotel sector in Europe in 2002/3. The Stein Group currently owns and/or manages a portfolio of ten hotels across Europe, which it plans to grow to 25 in five years.

Mr. Seely, who is a British national, comes to The Stein Group from Lipworth Capital, a London-based investment advisory firm specialized in Principal Fund investing, investment advice and raising private equity funding for early stage private and public companies and VC funds where he shared responsibility for raising and managing approximately US$100M of private equity and giving investment advice. He was also an Associate at Paradigm Media Investments PLC, a US30M$ UK AIM quoted investment vehicle backed by several international investors including Terry Semel CEO of Yahoo and ex-CEO of Warner Bros, Australia's Packer family and Knowledge Universe (a Mike Milken and Larry Ellison partnership). Prior to Lipworth Capital, he worked briefly in the corporate finance department of the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Spain and Brazil.

Mr. Seely speaks fluent English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and French.