Investors - Officers Bios

Adrian Banica, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Banica started his first electronics instrumentation venture, Synodon Corporation in Edmonton in 1995. As President of Synodon Corporation, he led a team of 10 engineering staff in the design and manufacturing of pipeline inspection robots, flow-meters, data analysis software, and well operation automation. Through Synodon Corporation, Mr. Banica has also provided his project management and design expertise to a number of high profile space instrumentation projects: Thermal Plasma Analyzer, a Canadian instrument on board a Japanese Mars mission; ACTORS, a space shuttle scientific experiment; and Optical Inter-Satellite Link, a $150 million space laser communications project in Boulder, CO.

In 1999 Synodon Corporation was sold to a European firm Rhea Group SA, a space consulting firm with offices in London, Madrid and Brussels. He became Rhea Group SA's Vice President for North America and was a member of Rhea Group SA's board of Directors for 14 months.

Mr. Banica founded Synodon Inc. in 2000 and he has served as Chief Executive Officer and director since its inception.

Dr. Boyd Tolton, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer

Dr. Tolton holds a P.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto and is a specialist in the development of atmospheric remote sensing instrumentation for satellites, airplanes and ground applications. He is a former Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto (1997 to 2002) and has participated in numerous international research projects including his position as a project scientist on the MOPITT (Measurement of Pollution in The Troposphere) space mission from 1989 to 2002. Dr. Tolton is the inventor of the realSens™ technology. To date he has over 15 scientific publications to his credit.

Nimal Rodrigo, CA, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Rodrigo has more than 19 years in finance and public company management. He is a Chartered Accountant and has served as CFO for Matrikon Inc. (MTK:TSX) and prior to that as CFO for Intuit's (INTU:NASDAQ) Canadian operations from May 1996 to August 2004.

Throughout his tenure at Intuit he had international management responsibilities, including Australia, Latin America and the UK and helped produce cumulative average growth rates in revenues of over 30% and operating income of over 40% while also integrating a number of multi-million dollar acquisitions over the eight year period.

Doug Miller, Bsc., Chief Technical Officer

Mr. Miller has a Bachelors degree in physics from the University of Saskatchewan and has more than 25 years experience in advanced instrumentation design and program management. He spent 16 years with SED Systems where he worked as an optical systems designer and project manager on a number of space communications and military programs. Mr. Miller participated in the successful design of the Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) instrument which was launched on NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in 1991 and is still operational. He also authored the systems engineering process used by SED Systems to attain their ISO 9000 certification.

Prior to joining Synodon, Mr. Miller worked for EDS Canada and was the project manager for the design and implementation of the IT infrastructure for Canadian Light Source (CLS) in Saskatoon. CLS is Canada's national facility for synchrotron light research and Canada's largest scientific project to date. The stadium-sized, $173.5-million project is Canada's largest scientific research facility in more than 30 years.

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