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Clinton H. Howard

Director, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

He has held those positions since founding the Company in 1991. He also served as President until the appointment of Mr. Holbrook to that position in February 2003. Mr. Howard graduated from Rice University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and from Southwestern Medical School with a Master of Medical Art degree, after which he studied graduate business courses both at Southern Methodist University and the University of Dallas and medical arts courses at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Mr. Howard founded American Biomedical Corporation in 1958 and served as Chief Executive Officer until 1973. During his tenure, American Biomedical grew into a chain of 40 medical testing laboratories and completed its initial public offering in 1969. In 1974, American Biomedical was merged with National Health Laboratories, then one of the nation’s largest medical laboratory chains. In 1974, Mr. Howard founded Carrington Laboratories, Inc., f/k/a Avacare, Inc., a direct sales company engaged in marketing personal care products. In 1981, he established a research division at Carrington, which isolated an active medicinal compound in aloe vera, acemannan. After selling its direct sales business in 1985, Carrington became a pharmaceutical company. Mr. Howard retired from Carrington in 1990.

John Price

Director and President

Mr. Price, age 64, joined the Company on October 1, 2007 as Chief Executive Officer of the Company’s wholly owned medical products subsidiary, MPM Medical, Inc. From September 2005 through September 2007, Mr. Price served as President of International Operations for Mannatech, Incorporated, a global network marketing company engaged in the sale of nutritional supplements. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Price was President of Price Associates, a business consulting firm serving a broad range of clients including Herbalife International Inc., a global network marketing company engaged in the sale of weight management products, nutritional supplements and personal care products. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Price served as Herbalife’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Administration, and served as its interim Chief Information Officer and a key executive to its President. From 1978 to 1995, Mr. Price served as Vice President of Human Resources for Eli Lilly & Company, a pharmaceutical manufacturer. Mr. Price received a B.A. in Psychology and Naval Science from the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, and received his M.B.A. in Marketing from the California Coast University, in Santa Ana, California. He is a retired U.S. Navy Commander and an Eagle Scout who continues to serve on the Eagle Scout Board of Review. Mr. Price served from 2001 to 2005 as a Board Member of the Direct Selling Education Foundation.

Steven E. Brown

Director, Vice President-Finance, Chief Financial Officer

Steve also serves as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President-Finance, positions that he has held since joining the Company in May 1994. Mr. Brown was appointed Secretary in September 2003. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Brown was the Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Carrington Laboratories, Inc. from 1980 through April 1994. Mr. Brown was treasurer of Carrington from 1982 through 1994 and served as a director from 1981 until August 1987. Mr. Brown became a certified public accountant in 1980 and was previously associated with an international accounting firm from 1977 to 1980.

Kenneth L. Sabot

Director and the Senior Vice President - Operations

Ken is a director and the Senior Vice President – Operations, positions which he has held since joining the Company in February 1998. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sabot was the Vice-President-Operations of To Life! LLC, a start-up network marketing company, from August 1996 until February 1998. Prior to joining To Life, he was employed by Light Force, Inc. from 1981 through January 1996. Mr. Sabot joined Light Force as the Controller in 1981 and served as Chief Operating Officer from 1986 until leaving Light Force in January 1996. Mr. Sabot became a certified public accountant in 1969.

Trevor Scofield

V.P., International Operations

Trevor Scofield has an extensive background in Marketing and Business Consulting. He operated his own consulting business and has worked for some of the largest computer consulting companies in Canada, helping them incorporate technology into their business practices. According to Trevor, he has been on the Internet for twenty years, long before anyone ever heard of the World Wide Web. His talent for managing both people and technology has been an invaluable asset to RBC Life Sciences’s Canada office, which he headed from 1992 until joining the Dallas office in a wider role as Vice President of International Operations.

Don Clark

Chief Information Officer

With two decades of experience in Information Technology, Don is well positioned to serve RBC Life Sciences’s customers and Associates. In 1982, Don produced a number of successful software titles pertaining to industrial automation and office productivity. In 1989, Don joined a systems integration firm as Vice President of Integration Services where he managed the engineering and build-out of computer networks in financial institutions across the US. He also managed the Help Desk and Training departments to help customers maximize their investments. In 1992, Don joined one of America's largest and most prestigious financial institutions as Senior Vice President of Information Technology. During this assignment, Don managed software integration and hardware integration for up to 100,000 workstations and gained recognition from Microsoft and others for pioneering new technologies and processes. Through this rich set of experiences Don has developed a keen sense of what it takes to succeed.

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