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Management and Directors
Mary Grace, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mary Grace, is President and CEO of e-Smart® Technologies and its Government Services affiliate, Homeland Defense, Inc. Concurrently and prior thereto since December 1997, Ms. Grace has served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Intermarket Ventures, Inc., an affiliate of the Company. Prior to July 1996, Ms. Grace served as the founder and a director of China Hi Tech American Telecommunications, Ltd (CHAT) a corporation engaged in international telecommunication. Since 1995, Ms. Grace was one of the founders and an executive officer of Asian American Tele-Communications Corporation (AAT), a corporation engaged in telephony infrastructure development in Sichuan Province in China. This company was sold to Metromedia Asia Corporation, a subsidiary of Metromedia International Group, Inc., in 1997. Since 1993, Ms. Grace was a founding partner and director of Asian Infrastructure Development Co., Ltd. and Solution Technologies, Ltd., corporations that through introductions by President Richard Nixon and Special UN Ambassador Frank Dale became engaged in infrastructure development in the People’s Republic of China. In the positions above Ms. Grace was responsible for the negotiations which resulted in contracts for the above companies, in the face of major international competition, which included Bell South, Sprint, Singapore Tel, Nortel, among others. The contracts called for the installation of wireless local loop and the laying of optic fiber in Sichuan Province, the largest province in China. In addition, Ms. Grace was responsible for signing contracts for a 800mhz (Nextel Type) nationwide emergency network in partnership with a major Chinese Government Ministry, the contract for the first nationwide data network, with a government owned telecommunications company, and a contract with China Telecom/Beijing Telecom to set up the first broadband Super Pop in Asia. In 2000, Ms. Grace led the e-Smart® team in negotiations which resulted in the Company being awarded the largest smartcard contract ever signed in the world for the e-Smart® Super Smart Card™ and system.

Tamio Saito, Chief Technical Officer & Senior Executive Vice President
Mr. Saito is the chief inventor of the Company’s unique and advanced technologies. With more than 21 years of experience at Toshiba Mr. Saito served in various positions, including, Marketing Manager in the Semiconductor Division, Group Leader and Senior Research Scientist in the R&D Center as well as Manager of Technology for the Computer Division. Mr. Saito was the leading inventor at Toshiba with more than 400 inventions and holds 50 US patents. He invented the first IC (Smart) Card more than twenty years ago, which has been successfully used around the world and, at the same time, invented the process to manufacture IC Cards. Mr. Saito has led the process from idea to development to manufacture on countless projects with great success. Long before 9/11, he patented the first biometric with smart cards in 1983. Mr. Saito’s other unique and revolutionary inventions include, among other things: the Thermal Printer(on fax machines), the 3-D Display, the 5th generation CT Scanner, the 3-D CT Scanner, the Image Sensor, Amorphous Silicon TFT/Sensor devices, Poly-Silicon TFT devices, the Digital Camera, Ti etching, Plasma Deposition Equipment, Switching Regulator, and Liquid Cooling System. Mr. Saito pioneered Sub-Nano-Second Signal Propagation, reflection theory and Fractal-Entropy interconnection theory in MPU, Memory, PCB and computers and he performed groundbreaking R&D work in high end supercomputer technology including high speed circuitry analysis and Gallium Arsenic cross talk analysis and in semiconductor R&D work including simultaneous noise analysis. Mr. Saito has published more than 50 papers at IEEE and other conferences and has published more than two dozen industrial professional books. Mr. Saito has a degree in Physics from Tohoku University in Japan.

Richard Kim, Managing Director eSmart Korea
Mr. Kim is Managing Director of eSmart Korea and Director of International Sales and Marketing, and in charge of overall management of the marketing division and the operations of the Company. Mr. Kim’s responsibilities include setting up basic production infrastructures in Korea for the I AM™ Smart card, set up & control of local and overseas I AM™ card system implementation, overall management of local and international exhibitions and reporting directly to the CEO. Mr. Kim’s educational background includes degrees in engineering (EE & CS) from Inha University and University of California.
Mr. Kim’s business experience includes Engineering Marketing, System Implementation, Local and International Market Development and International Management. Prior to joining eSmart, Mr. Kim served as VP of International Marketing of C&C Corp. (Electronic Card Payment System), the Asia and Africa Division Manager for Jeyou Group (Cellular Relay System Equipment), the Head of Asia Marketing Division for Universal Enterprise Corp., Korea and Asia Marketing Team Leader at IBM Korea, and International Marketing Engineer at Daewoo International Corp.

Advisory Board
Thomas J. Volpe, Mr. Volpe is currently Chairman of the Company’s Advisory Board. Mr. Volpe was Senior Vice President, Financial Operations, of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., Vice President and Treasurer of Colgate-Palmolive Company and a Principal of Deloitte, Haskins & Sells.

At Interpublic, Mr. Volpe was responsible for the worldwide treasury management of this $7 billion company, including financial analysis, budgeting, approval of all investments, and the financing of mergers and acquisitions worldwide. He performed corporate controller functions, and conducted comprehensive strategic analyses and plans for the successful integration of acquired companies into the parent company. Volpe was in charge of Interpublic’s global enterprise Y2K security risk analysis, as well as the implementation and coordination of the Y2K security protection needed throughout the company’s operations in 160 countries.

During his tenure at Colgate, Mr. Volpe forged domestic and international banking relationships, negotiated unique global credit and financing arrangements, supervised an investment portfolio of $500 million, restructured $750 million of pension assets, and designed an international risk program constituting captive insurance operations including safety, security and loss prevention.

Charles R. Black, Mr. Black is best known as one of America's leading Republican political strategists and has served as senior advisor to Presidents Reagan and Bush. He also served as a principal public spokesman for President Bush in the 1992 presidential campaign. During 1990, Mr. Black served as chief spokesman for the Republican National Committee and in 2000 Mr. Black also served on President George W. Bush's campaign as a volunteer political advisor and surrogate spokesman.

An attorney with more than twenty-five years of experience in government, public affairs and politics, Mr. Black has managed the successful elections of more than ten members of the U.S. Senate and more than a dozen members of Congress.

Mr. Black serves as the principal legislative and public affairs advisor to several Fortune 500 companies and trade associations. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Civitas Group, LLC. a unique multi-disciplinary security consulting firm. The leadership team at Civitas is an impressive gathering of top security experts, including Robert H. Swindell, who spent nearly two decades with Lehman Brothers as head of its U.S. Technology Banking; David Howe, a former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and the Senior Director for Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Homeland Security Council at the White House; Penrose "Parney" Albright, former Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology; Richard A. Falkenrath is the former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor and also served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Policy and Plans within the Office of Homeland Security and Warren Rudman, former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire who served as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President Clinton and was Co-Chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security..

Elliot H. Cole. Mr. Cole is a senior partner with the firm of Patton Boggs, LLP (Washington, DC), Mr. Cole has practiced corporate law in the nation's capitol for over 40 years, more than 30 of those years as a partner at Patton Boggs. Patton Boggs, through nearly four decades of practice, has established a reputation for cutting-edge advocacy by working closely with the US Congress and regulatory agencies in Washington. Patton Boggs, for example, has participated in the formation of every major multilateral trade agreement considered by Congress. The firm is a leader in merging public policy expertise getting results in both Washington and throughout the world. The firm is led by partners with extensive backgrounds in government service and with strong ties to both major political parties in order to be effective on Capitol Hill.

In addition, Mr. Cole's expertise includes the representation of early-stage companies. As a counselor of start-ups through mezzanine and later-stage financing, he assists with bringing to maturity companies in a wide range of businesses. His broad-based contacts with financiers and investors have provided capital and management assistance to a number of firm's clients over the years. Mr. Cole serves on the boards of numerous business, community and social organizations, and is a trustee of his alma mater, Boston University.

Eugene P. Beard. Mr. Beard recently retired as Vice Chairman, Finance & Operations, of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., a worldwide advertising and marketing communications group with 400 offices in 120 countries, over 50,000 employees and revenues of more than $6 billion.

Eugene Beard was formerly a member of the board of the Interpublic Group, and chairman of its finance committee. Mr.Beard also serves on the boards of directors of Brown Brothers Harriman; Bessemer Trust Company; Mattel & Company and the Mattel Foundation; as well as MARC USA. A member of the Advisory Council for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Mr. Beard established the Beard Graduate and Faculty Fellowship programs for Ethics in the Professions, there. He also founded the Beard Center for Leadership & Ethics in Business at Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University.

Mr. Beard has been featured as an expert commentator and profiled in a number of media outlets, including Global Finance’s CFO Superstars, Investor Relations, Treasury Magazine, Forbes, Corporate Finance, Institutional Investor and BusinessWeek. He has also appeared on CNBC News and PBS’s Nightly Business Report.

John J. DeLucca, John DeLucca is currently Executive Vice President and CFO of the REL Consultancy Group, a private international consulting company. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration, and CFO of Coty Inc., where he was responsible for all global finance and administration operations, including accounting, strategic planning, corporate development, all treasury, audit and control functions, legal information technology systems, tax and administration.

Prior to that he served as RJR Nabisco, Inc.’s Senior Vice President and Treasurer where he was responsible for all corporate finance and treasury activities, including capital markets, banking, derivatives/swaps, foreign exchange, risk management, pension fund management and cash management. Prior thereto, he served as Managing Director and CFO of Hascoe & Associates, President & CFO of the Lexington Group and Sr. VP, Finance & Managing Director of The Trump Group.

Mr. DeLucca is a member of the boards of directors and serves as Chairman of the Audit Committees of the Elliott Company, Horizon Natural Resources and ITC Deltacom. He is also currently on the board of directors of Enzo Biochem, Inc and formerly a member of the boards of directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Edison Controls Corporation. Former directorships include Kash n Karry (sold to Food Lion); Nature’s Food Centers (sold to General Nutrition Centers); Emperor Clock Company ; and RKO Century Warner Theaters (sold to Cinema Odeon).

Mr. DeLucca is active as guest speaker/lecturer for many financial institutions (i.e. Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Sumitomo Bank, Ltd., Banque Paribas, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Pace University, Standard & Poor’s and NYU Stern School of Business).

Gary S. Messina. Mr. Messina has nearly three decades of public & private information technology infrastructure experience and expertise. His background includes multi-agency and industry experience in the design, development and deployment of technology strategies and policies with extensive knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure, e-Commerce, start-up and expansion and the seamless integration of emerging technologies.

Currently, Gary S. Messina is a Corporate Director for L-3 Communications Headquarters’ Operations. He is responsible for Homeland Security and Defense Operations domestically and internationally, which involves all of L-3 Communications. Prior to joining L-3, Washington Operations, Gary was the Strategic Development Executive for Titan Corporation which was acquired by L-3 Communications in September 2005. This position, at the vice-president level, was created to develop holistic business concepts and long-term strategies for Titan both national and internationally. He participated in mergers and acquisitions, congressional affairs and senior management. Gary was responsible for systems and approaches supporting the Department of Homeland Security and other large-scale government agencies and programs.

Before he moved to the private sector, Gary was the Chief Information Officer for the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services within the newly formed Department of Homeland Security where he retired in June 2004. During his tenure in the Federal Government he was a key player in the integration of former Immigration and Naturalization Service operations into the DHS environment. Gary has served under five U.S. Presidents, and six INS Commissioners. He was instrumental in leading change during his 27-year career with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. His expertise within the Agency spanned numerous programs, organizational changes, and administrations. Gary demonstrated a unique combination of management and policy experience in immigration affairs, counter-terrorism, Information Technology and organizational analysis. In his tenure with legacy INS and prior to his retirement, he served as Acting, Executive Associate Commissioner, Deputy Associate Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, and Director of Research & Development, where he developed innovative technologies for counter-terrorism and counter intrusion programs within the agency.

Previous to joining INS, Gary served as vice-president for international affairs for Tech-Mod Corporation. He has written or contributed to numerous articles, testified on policy matters before Congressional committee hearings and addressed professional meetings and academic for a on a wide variety of immigration and technical issues. His career in Washington D.C., began in 1969 as a staff assistant on Capitol Hill where, during those years, he worked for three U.S. Senators. In 1972, he jointed Tech-Mod Corporation (a subsidiary of LTV Aerospace, at that time) as director of their Small Business Investment Corporation. In 1979, he began his career within the U.S. Department of Justice. He was educated at the University of Maryland and at the Rutgers Graduate School of Business. He holds several advanced Federal Aviation Administration licenses and certificates, is a member of MENSA, the Explores Club, and a Fellow at the Washington Academy of Sciences.