XTL BIOPHARMACEUTICALS LTD.
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ITEM 6. DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES<br />
Directors and Senior Management<br />
The following sets forth information with respect to our directors and executive officers as of February 29, 2008. Except as noted, the business<br />
address for each of the following is 711 Executive Blvd., Suite Q, Valley Cottage, NY 10989, USA.<br />
Name Age Position<br />
Michael S. Weiss 42 Chairman of the Board of Directors<br />
William J. Kennedy, Ph.D 63 Non Executive Director<br />
Ido Seltenreich (1) 36 Non Executive and External Director<br />
Vered Shany, D.M.D (1) 43 Non Executive and External Director<br />
Ben Zion Weiner, Ph.D (1) 63 Non Executive Director<br />
Ron Bentsur 42 Chief Executive Officer<br />
Bill Kessler (1) 42 Director of Finance<br />
(1) Business address is Kiryat Weizmann Science Park, Building 3, POB 370, Rehovot 76100, Israel.<br />
Michael S. Weiss has served as a director of our company since November 2004, and was appointed interim Chairman of the Board in March<br />
2005 and Chairman of the Board in August 2005. Mr. Weiss is currently the Chairman and CEO of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:<br />
KERX). Prior to that, from 1999-2002, Mr. Weiss served as CEO and Chairman, and later as the Executive Chairman, of ACCESS Oncology, Inc. a<br />
private biotechnology company subsequently acquired by Keryx. Prior to that, Mr. Weiss served as Senior Managing Director of Paramount Capital,<br />
Inc., a broker-dealer registered with the National Association of Securities Dealers. From 1991-1993, Mr. Weiss was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine &<br />
Moore. Mr. Weiss received his B.A., magna cum laude from State University of New York at Albany and was awarded a Juris Doctorate degree from<br />
Columbia University Law School.<br />
William J. Kennedy has served as a director of our company since February 2005. Dr. Kennedy retired as Vice President, Drug Regulatory<br />
Affairs, for Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Group in October 1999, and since that time has served as a regulatory consultant to the pharmaceutical industry.<br />
Prior to joining Zeneca Pharmaceuticals in 1986, Dr. Kennedy worked in regulatory affairs at G.D. Searle & Co., Kalipharma Inc., Berlex<br />
Laboratories, Inc. and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Kennedy earned a B.S. from Siena College, a M.A. from Clark University and a Ph.D in<br />
Pharmacology from SUNY, Buffalo. Prior to joining the industry in 1977, he was an Associate Research Professor at Yale University conducting<br />
research in Molecular Biology and Recombinant DNA.<br />
Ido Seltenreich has served as a director of our company since August 2005. Mr. Seltenreich is currently the financial representative in<br />
Bulgaria, of Cinema City International N.V., or CCI, (Polish Stock Exchange - CCIINT) and of OCIF Investment & Development <strong>LTD</strong> (TASE -<br />
OCIF). Prior to that, from October 1999 to September 2006, Mr. Seltenreich was the representative of CCI in the Czech Republic, for which he had<br />
served as the Managing and Financing Director. From July 2003 to August 2005, Mr. Seltenreich also served as a member of the Board of Directors of<br />
an intragroup company of CCI, a development company that operated in the Bulgarian market. Prior to that, from 1996-1999, Mr. Seltenreich worked<br />
at Luboshits Kasirer, a member of Ernst & Young. Mr. Seltenreich received his B.A. in economics and accounting from Haifa University and has an<br />
Israeli CPA license.<br />
Vered Shany has served as a director of our company since August 2005. Since September 2006, Dr. Shany has served as the founder,<br />
Chairman and CEO of Lotus Bio Inc., a private medical diagnostics company. Since March 2002, Dr. Shany has managed Tashik Consultants,<br />
providing strategic consulting and corporate analysis for Israeli and international corporations and investment management in life sciences companies.<br />
Previously, Dr. Shany served as managing director of Up-Tech Ventures Ltd, a subsidiary of the Africa-Israel Investments Group from May 2000 to<br />
March 2002, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Weizmann Science Park Incubator from May 2000 to March 2002, and as vice president of<br />
marketing for Arad Technological Incubator from 1995 to 1999. Dr. Shany is currently an external director of Capital Point Ltd., since August 2006,<br />
and in Simigon Ltd., since September 2006. Dr. Shany served as an external director in Lahak Mutual Funds of Bank Hapoalim, from October 2000 to<br />
September 2006, and in SFKT - Shrem Fudim Kellner Technologies, from September 2000 to September 2006. Dr. Shany holds an M.A. in business<br />
administration from Heriot - Watt University, Edinburgh Business School, and she completed her D.M.D., Doctor of Medical Dentistry, and her<br />
B.Med.Sc, from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<br />
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