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Boardof Directors

Jack McDonnell, chairman, executive VP and general counsel, has held executive positions in government, plus public and private companies, for more than 30 years. He is currently chairman of HarVest Bank of Maryland and is a founding partner in Bethesda Bioscience Partners LLC. Past appointments include general counsel of Yurie Systems Inc., general counsel of Cibernet Corporation, senior vice president and general counsel for Fairchild Industries Inc., and principal deputy general counsel of the Department of the Navy. He also serves on a number of corporate boards.

Devinder S. Bawa, chief executive officer, has a 22-year track record of successfully starting and leading health care and technology companies in entrepreneurial ventures. He has experience with early-stage medical device companies, CHAMPUS/TriCare, leading managed care and health care organizations such as Sentara, the Cleveland Clinic and Travelers, large physician groups, and Medicare/Medicaid. That combination gives him a unique and intimate knowledge of each of TraumaCure’s primary market segments.

Rhonda Friedman, Sc.D., president and chief operating officer, has nearly 30 years of health care industry experience in both the public and private sectors. She is a founding partner of Bethesda Bioscience Partners LLC. Formerly, she was president and chief operating officer of Coagulation Diagnostics; vice president of The MEDSTAT Group, a health care information company; head of the marketing section of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; and a health care legislative aide on committees in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. She currently serves on the boards of InforMedix Inc., Girls Inc. of the Washington D.C. Area; and Suburban Hospital Foundation. She is also on the Institutional Review Board at Suburban Hospital.

Ken S. Bajaj, Ph.D., is an entrepreneur and recognized technology business leader with more than 35 years of experience in building successful companies. Some of those high-profile companies were later sold in deals worth nearly $3 billion. He joined EDS in 1971, and after delivering groundbreaking products to GM and the U.S. Army, left the company with Ross Perot to form Perot Systems in 1988. He later became president of I-Net, an IT services company, growing it into a $340-million business before being sold to Wang, where he became vice chairman. In 1997, he formed AppNet Systems Inc., which grew to the fourth largest interactive media services company in the U.S. AppNet was a $265- million public company with 1,400 employees when it was sold to Commerce One for $2.2 billion in 2000. In 2001, Dr. Bajaj founded DigitalNet Inc., an IT security and solutions firm, took it public, grew it into a $385-million business, and sold it to BAE Systems in 2005. He recently launched SystemsNet Inc., business process automation and outsourcing company.

Ronald R. Blanck, D.O, Lieutenant General (Ret), US Army, is Vice Chairman and Partner of Martin, Blanck and Associates, joining the firm in July 2006. He began his military career in 1968 as a medical officer and battalion surgeon in Vietnam. He retired 32 years later as the Surgeon General of the US Army and commander of the US Army Medical Command. During his military career, he also served as commander of Walter Reed Medical Center, North Atlantic Region Medical Command and director of professional services and chief of Medical Corps Affairs for the US Army Surgeon General. Following his retirement from the US Army, he served as President of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth from August 2000 until June 2006. He also serves on the boards of the Carrington Laboratories Inc., Noblis, Inc., and The Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy.

Sean P. Murphy is the co-founder of Wakefield Capital LLC. Since its inception in May 2006, Wakefield has acquired nearly $600 million in assets. Previously, he was partner and co-founder of Chain Bridge Capital LLC, an investment firm engaged in acquiring and financing health care real estate. He had also been executive vice president of Medical Office Properties Inc., which sold a portfolio of real estate assets, mezzanine and other loans for approximately $300 million in mid-2004. He has practiced law in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Florida. He is currently Of Counsel at Patton Boggs LLP, and is a co-founder of the Maryland BioScience PAC, a political action committee formed to attract additional institutional investment in Maryland life science businesses. He has served on the board of Chain Bridge Advisors LLC, and on the Montgomery County advisory board of Century National Bank. He is also chairman of a consumer health care media business that he founded in 2005.

Erik B. Young, MD, is the president of Medical Center Development Corporation, a Maryland based company that engages in development, leasing, construction management and property management services. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland in College Park and the University of Maryland Medical School, and was trained in his specialty at Georgetown University Hospital. He opened his medical practice in 1983 and until his retirement in 1999, practiced Obstetrics and Gynecology. Beginning in the early 1990s and, exclusively since 1999, he has concentrated his efforts in the development, construction and management of medical office properties. He oversaw the partnership syndication, land-lease acquisition, design, leasing, financing, and construction of the Shady Grove Medical Building, and Shady Grove Professional Center I and II, as well as other medical office properties. He is a member of the board of directors of HarVest Bank of Maryland. He also serves as a Trustee for the University of Maryland College Park Foundation and is an active supporter of the University’s academic and athletic programs.