Global Technovations Senior Management
The Global Technovations senior management team has more than 35 years of experience in taking technological ideas from concept through development to commercial deployment:
Profiles
Will Willis, Jr., 47, has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board since May 1997. Since July 1, 1998, Mr. Willis has served as Chairman of the Board.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mr. Willis is responsible for the overall management of the business, with an emphasis on business strategy and long-term planning. Mr. Willis also actively supervises the marketing of the Company's OSA-IIs.
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Willis was Chairman of Willis & Associates, a management consulting firm assisting small and medium sized technology, health care and consumer products companies. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Willis was President and Chief Operating Officer of MBf USA, Inc., a marketer and distributor of latex products whose Common Stock is traded on Nasdaq.
From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Willis was President and Chief Executive Officer of Insituform Technologies, Inc., a state of the art provider of technologies for the reconstruction of pipelines and infrastructure. From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Willis was President of The Paper Art Company, Inc., a subsidiary of The Mennen Company.
He received his BA and MBA degrees from Columbia University. Mr. Willis is the author of, "If You're Sitting on the Edge, You're Taking Up Too Much Space", which was published in 1998.
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David Natan, 47, was appointed a director of the Company on April 16, 1998 in order to fill a vacancy. Currently, Mr. Natan, a CPA, has been Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company since June 1995 and Secretary from August 1997.
Mr. Natan previously served on the Company's Board from June 1995 to January 1997. Mr. Natan brings nearly 20 years of management and analytical experience to his responsibilities.
Prior to joining the Company, from November 1992 through June 1995, Mr. Natan was Chief Financial Officer of MBf USA, Inc., which is a Nasdaq listed subsidiary of MBf Holdings Berhad, a multi-national conglomerate. From August 1987 through October 1992, Mr. Natan was Treasurer and Controller for Jewelmasters, Inc., an AMEX listed company.
He received his BA from Boston University
Dr. John Coates, 47, PhD, CChem, FRSC - Director of Technologies, a world-renowned oil analysis expert, is head of the OSA-II technology team. He is one of the world's leading authorities in Tribology and a developer of instruments for the analysis of used oil.
His prior experience includes: analytical methods development chemist for Burmah-Castrol (UK); technical consultant, focusing on design, development and support of analyzer based products for the past 24 years for the analytical instrument manufacturers, Perkin-Elmer, Nicolet and Spectra-Tech. He received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Brunel, University of West London (UK) and is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Instrument Society of America (ISA), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
His repertoire of published works includes over 70 articles and book chapters, as well as patents.
Greg Brown, 43, Vice President Marketing & Sales, is responsible for all direct sales of Global Technovations's patented technologies as well as for the development of corporate partnership programs. Prior to joining Global Technovations, Mr. Brown was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Boston Advanced Technologies where he was responsible for infrared fuel and raman analyzer distribution.
Earlier, he was Sales and Service Manager for Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Real Time Systems Division, where he developed Latin American, European, and Far Eastern markets. At UOP Guided Wave, Mr. Brown was the National Sales Manager where he established national account status for DuPont, Dow, and Ashland Chemical, assisted in market development for Plastic Extrusions, Polymers and Refineries and introduced the sale of value added model calibrations with analyzer packages.
He received his BS at the University of Massachusetts.
David F. E. Farr - Mr. Farr left retirement after approximately one year to join Global Tech on December 6, 1999 as Vice President of Marketing, and is responsible for all marketing functions charged with increasing awareness and
ultimately orders for the patented MotorCheck™ On-Site Analyzer ("OSA-II").
Mr. Farr is also responsible for marketing additional technologies and/or
products in the Company's future arsenal.
Prior to joining the Company, from
1978 to 1998, Mr. Farr was Sr. Vice President and General Manager of
Corporate Communications for North and South American operations for more
than 20 years with the Canon Corporation. He was an important member of the
executive team that built Canon into a Fortune 100 enterprise.
Before joining Canon from 1972 to 1978, Mr. Farr was with British American Tobacco
("BAT") as President and CEO of its New York affiliate, Turnpike Tobacco. He
also spearheaded BAT's multi-billion dollar U.S. acquisition program.
Mr. Farr's career includes numerous award winning advertising and public
relations campaigns. A native of the United Kingdom, Mr. Farr earned his
undergraduate degree from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, where
he later received two MBA degrees, in marketing and business administration.