Advisory Board Profiles SpaCom™ – The Spare Part & Component Company™
	James C. Hsiao, PH. D. Prof. Dr. JAMES HSIAO is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of SpaCom International LLC. He is also co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Nano Group, Inc. which consists of the Inframat Corporation and US Nanocorp, Inc., both of which are emerging technology companies founded to develop and commercialize nanomaterials and technologies. These companies have been awarded in excess of $20 Mio from US Government contracted research rather than private equity investments. The founders were recently featured in the Forbes Magazine (06/2004). Prior to above positions, Dr. Hsiao was the founder and former dean of the School of Business of the Southern Connecticut State University. A trained economist, Prof. Hsiao was a member of the visiting faculty at the University of Chicago (1968), the Yale University (1982, 1987) and the University of Connecticut (1984). He also served as a consultant to a number of prominent organizations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Future Group, as well as the United Nations Development Programme. For more than two decades Dr. Hsiao has maintained an active involvement in promoting economic reforms and "open-door" policies in the People's Republic of China, as well as in fostering the people-to-people relations between the U.S. and China. He has had face-to-face meetings with world leaders, both from the U.S. and China, including former Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Cyrus Vance, former General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, former Premier Zhu Rongji and Premier Wen Jiabao of China. He was a panelist at the recent 2004 World Economic Forum regional meeting in Beijing.   Dr. Hsiao has received a number of awards and recognitions, including various awards from the legislature of the State of Connecticut and the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University for his contributions to the State.
	Derek Statham, PH. D. Dr. DEREK STATHAM is a member of the Board of SpaCom International LLC. He has over 30 years experience in senior business management positions, and extensive experience in the start up and management of high technology companies. He was Director of Ventures at Alcan Aluminum Ltd. in Montreal, Canada, where he was responsible for the start up of several new companies involved in electronic materials, ceramics and composites. He was also head of corporate development for Corning Incorporated, where he was responsible for numerous Merger & Acquisition activities in materials and life science businesses. He also served as President and CEO of Biosym Technologies Inc., a high tech software company and as Chairman of its successor company, Molecular Simulations Inc., involved in scientific software and computational chemistry. He later served as CEO of Oplink Communications Inc. and subsequently as co-founder and CEO of Arista Networks. He is also currently a Venture Partner in the NGEN Enabling Technologies Venture Capital Fund.  Dr. Statham has B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in materials sciences from Oxford University, U.K. and an MBA from the Rider University in New Jersey.