Pharma-Pen Directors and Officers

President, Co-Founder, Director: Richard D. Gillespie III

Richard (Rick) Gillespie has a broad background in leading edge medical device design, process engineering, manufacturing, quality assurance and business management. Rick is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas and the inventor of our auto injector. Creating and integrating technologies from diverse fields and transforming these elements into world-class product solutions and manufacturing systems are his specialty. Rick has twenty-three years of broad-based experience in the medical device engineering and manufacturing industry spanning a wide variety of market sectors. Rick is particularly skilled at building teams of highly skilled and motivated professionals in a high growth manufacturing environment. Rick earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979, and is registered as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

Co-Founder, Director: M. Mark Lesher

Mark Lesher is a practicing attorney and a licensed pharmacist. He currently owns a broad general civil practice involving personal injury litigation. Mark has been in private law practice since 1973 in Texarkana, Texas. Mark and Rick have worked on other medical device development projects since 1993. Mr. Lesher earned a B.S. Pharmacy degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969 and J.D. from the University of Texas in 1972.

Director: Richard M. Winters

Richard (Dick) Winters recently resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of Pharma-Pen, Inc. a post he held since September 1, 2003. Dick remains a member of the Board of Directors, a post he has held since March 2001. Before coming to Pharma-Pen, Dick served for 10 years as Vice-President of Operations for Mitek Worldwide, a Johnson & Johnson company. Rick Gillespie, Pharma-Pen's President, reported to Dick Winters during the mid-1980's while both were employees of Argon/Weck, a Bristol Myers Squibb company. Dick has over 30 years experience in large and small medical device companies in general management, manufacturing, and product development positions. He earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Chairman: Donald G. Wilson

Donald (Don) Wilson has broad experience in business management and manufacturing operations in a wide variety of product areas. Don served as a director and as the interim Co-Chief Executive Officer of American Iron Horse, Inc. from May 2003 through October 2003. Don served as CEO of Veneer Solutions, located in Clarksville, Texas; and as managing partner of H-W Investments and Development, located in Paris, Texas, since 1978. Don has served as a Director of Liberty National Bank, located in Paris, Texas, since 1980; and served on the board of directors of Paris Packaging Co., located in Paris, Texas. He previously served as Owner - President of Rodgers-Wade Manufacturing, located in Paris, Texas, from 1968 to 1997. Don earned a BBA degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Director: James C. Collet

James (Jim) Collet is Founder and President of Sheridan Industries, Inc., a private equity investment firm focused on the acquisition of manufacturing and value added distribution companies located primarily in the southwestern United States. He is also CEO of JetStar Energy, an oil field equipment supply company. Prior to the formation of Sheridan, Mr. Collet spent ten years in the investment banking business, holding senior positions with Service Asset Management Company (SAMCO Capital Markets) and Ernst & Young LLP. In those positions, his responsibilities included capital raising, mergers and acquisitions advisory, recapitalization and financial consulting activities primarily for middle market companies. Jim is a past President of the Dallas Chapter of The Association for Corporate Growth, has served on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association and the Dallas Heart Ball, and is Chapter Chairman of the Lone Star Chapter of the Young President’s Organization and serves on the Western Region Board of Directors for the organization. Jim holds BBA and MBA degrees, earned with distinction, from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.