Erik Wilton Hagberg Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer erik@pacinternational.org Erik's first dreams were of being a fisherman and marine biologist. Coming from a family of avid fishing enthusiasts and the youngest of three brothers, Erik was always consigned with the jobs of baiting, rigging the family's hooks, taking the fish off the hooks, and filleting or processing the catch. Growing up, the family frequently traveled, but Erik especially loved the travels lifestyle, the outdoors, adventure, and especially the ocean. Backpacking in Sweden at age 14 to rediscover family roots, Erik's explorations have taken him around the world and his most recent adventures have concentrated on discovering many of the most remote islands in the world. During his tenure at Boston University in their Woods Hole Program, Erik operated a private fishing boat, worked on a commercial shell fishing grant, and also worked as a natural resource officer for a municipal shellfish department. While working on the clam farm one day and calculating profits to pass the time, Erik, always a dreamer, imagined if every clam had a pearl inside, the profits would be enormous! Sharing the revelation with his bosses, Erik embarked on a pearl farming odyssey that, over the years, has now evolved into an International Corporation and Non-Profit aquaculture enterprise, now based in St. Kitts and an NGO affiliate with the UN. Throughout those university years, Erik intensively researched Pearl Farming and Aquaculture resources using the school's interlibrary loan program to retrieve material from libraries around the world with the intention of starting an international pearl farming and tourism operation some time after graduation. His skills as a marine biologist underwent refinement by developing and testing a number of aqua farming prototypes for local markets in the Cape Cod Area of Massachusetts. Besides being a dedicated marine biologist, Erik is also an accomplished artist. While developing an industrial prototype at the SFA School in Boston and surrounded by artists, he became inspired by marine life and began the creation of a major thesis of metal sculptures, which he is still working on today, poetically entitled "Sea of Steel". Some of his metal sculptures are on public display in Boston and Provincetown. During his tenure and travels throughout each year working on pearl farms in Australia, Cook Islands, Tahiti, and finally settling in Micronesia, while engaging in marine biology research and exploring potential business opportunities, Erik made a breakthrough discovery with sea cucumbers, a holothurian marine species, uncovering the vast potential for economic development and sustainability of the natural marine resources as a solution to challenges faced by the country. In the design and development of strategic aquaculture business solutions, Erik created Pacific Aquaculture Cooperatives International (PAC) and HELP PPFISCH (Nonprofit) to address issues of environmental stewardship and sustainable human development through Aqua Farming in countries of the Pacific Rim and all costal communities harboring sea cucumber resources. Currently President and CEO of PAC International and Director for HELP PPFISCH, Erik's vision of a more "Blue Future" for food consumption, and a "Blue Revolution" in sea farming technology is becoming a reality. Erik believes PAC international will make a big difference in meeting the world's current and future food and drug demands to fight hunger and degenerative diseases.

Rosario De Medici Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer & Executive Vice President rosario@pacinternational.org Rosario began his training in sales management as a sales/business development manager who took a collapsing business department within Chapman & Hall and reorganized and restructured it into a fully functioning successful operation. He did so by provided strategic training services for existing staff that resulted in increased productivity and increased sales. Through an ambitious and enthusiastic sales team developed and trained under his management, he successfully sold five million dollars of technology solutions during his tenure at this Fortune 500 Company. From the tremendous value developed by him and his department and which infected ancillary departments, the company, Chapman & Hall, was later purchased by their competitor, John Wiley & Sons. Subsequent to this achievement, Rosario went on to work for a Fortune 1000 commodities firm in the Wall Street area. He further developed his intellectual and interpersonal astuteness from working with C level executives and high net worth clientele. During the span of one year he raised over $2.5 million under management assets for JDS Capital. After two years of successful growth, a Wall Street firm purchased the company. Immediately following this experience, Rosario began working with an Italy based company called Trustt Universal Securities, whose main business lies in the acquisition of failing companies, real estate holdings, and market trades. He has worked with them for a period of seven years on a contract basis by taking on assignments in the New York City area and overseas as a Feasibility Project Analyst. Responsibilities would include thoroughly understanding client's brand, positioning and the audience so as to develop client's long range strategy and appropriate brand extensions as well as to credibly represent client to outside partners and prospective partners. These varied experiences have enabled Rosario to hone his writing skills through the design and development of business and marketing plans, feasibility studies, corporate newsletters, and web content materials. He later went on to branch out on his own by offering specialized consulting services to media, financial, and real estate firms. In the area of finance and banking he has established relationships with high profile banking and political constituents of various global financial and political sectors such as the World Bank, IMF, World Gold Council, U.S. Department of Treasury, U.S. Senate Committee, and the U.S. Armed Forces. His goal at the present time is to work collaboratively to see PAC's plan become a reality.

Robert Schatz Chief Operations Officer bob@pacinternational.org Robert Schatz has carried out an impeccable career serving in the United States Navy. During his 20 years of dedicated service, he underwent a two year training to become Naval and to become Naval Aviator. Mr. Schatz served four years in Anti-Submarine Squadron as Patrol Plane Commander followed by three years as Director of High Explosives Test for Joint Services Task Force. He went on to serve two years as Patrol Plane Commander with service in Vietnam. Three years as Nuclear Weapons Officer and Navigator of the aircraft carrier, Saratoga. Two years as Director of Joint Services Nuclear Weapons Test Program. Mr. Schatz occupied a leadership role in supervising over 400 scientists, engineers, and technicians with an annual budget of over $3 billion. He also served four years as Operations and FAA Coordinating Officer for the entire Caribbean Air Traffic Control Area. During 1980-1985 he started his own Consulting/Marketing company, Royal Global Services, Inc. and obtained contracts for many Defense oriented companies. For the past 20 years, Mr. Schatz has operated American Consulting Enterprises, to establish international business mainly in the Caribbean. He has worked with Canon Pictures to film three movies in St. Kitts, including the Chuck Norris "Missing In Action" series. With his background in the military, government, and business, we are proud to have Mr.Schatz as a member of the management team.

Don Siclari Sr. Chief Financial Officer don@pacinternational.org Mr. Siclari brings over thirty years experience in public accounting to Pacific Aquaculture Cooperatives International, both as managing partner of Siclari & Siclari, PC., and the owner/manager of Donald J. Siclari, CPA, LLC of Branford, CT. His areas of expertise involve financial consulting, small business services, not-for-profit audits and income taxation. Over the course of his career, Mr. Siclari has worked with many not-for-profit agencies and municipalities both as independent accountant and volunteer. He is a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Connecticut and New York Societies of Certified Public Accountants. He is a former holder of public office and has been a delegate to the Democratic presidential convention in Connecticut. He is still active in local politics. Mr. Siclari has also been active in athletics having served for eleven years as a varsity ice hockey assistant at Yale University as well as coaching at both the high school and junior levels of competition. Mr. Siclari attended Rutgers University before receiving his BS in Accounting from the University Of Bridgeport. He is currently the State Financial Secretary of the Order of Sons of Italy in America.

Michael Oliver Powell Chief Banking Officer michael@pacinternational.org Michael Oliver Powell has been named Chief Banking Officer for Pacific Aquaculture Cooperatives Int'l (PAC). In this new position, Mr. Powell will lead the company in its corporate and private banking needs. Mr. Powell comes aboard Pacific Aquaculture cooperatives (PAC) after leading an impeccable career in both business and politics. He has served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism from 1980 to 1992 of the Government of St. Kitts & Nevis. Since 1966, former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Oliver Powell, has been a business owner of several thriving business operations in the the auto and travel industries. He also served as a private investment consultant for several years. In 1980 He serves as Deputy Premier & Minister of Agriculture Lands Housing Labor and Tourism The following year he assumed the role of Deputy Leader of Delegation to London which negotiated independence for St.Kitts & Nevis.From 1983-1992 Mr. Powell went on to serve his country as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism Labor & Social Security together as Leader of Government Business in Parliment. Some of the leadership positions Michael Powell has been known most notably for are chairman of St.Kitts Sugar Manufacturing Corpration and Chairman of Frigate Bay Development Corporation for a combined period of 24 years. As a businessman having strategic relations in both government and business, Mr. Powell will provide international business consultation in relation to the company's banking needs and requirements.

Alex Aslam Chief Technology Officer alex@pacinternational.org As Chief Technology Officer Alex is responsible for maintaining awareness of technologies pertinent to the PAC's scientific and technology programs. Commercialization and deployment opportunities are identified for PAC technologies by managing the organization's intellectual property portfolio and licensing efforts. One of the key roles that Alex will carry out as CTO is to provide the technical vision to complement the business vision, setting the tone and direction for the company's technologies. Leadership, in this context, comes from being able to set the technical course and from being able to define what the company's products and technologies might look like in two, three, or more years Alex is an Information Technology professional with nine years of experience in Internet and client/server environments. He has over four years of experience utilizing Visual Basic, ASP, COM, SQL in the development of network architecture for some of the leading Fortune 500 companies in New York City. He has further augmented his technology capabilities by gaining extensive hands-on experience using the Microsoft .NET framework (C#, Visual Basic.Net, XML, ASP.Net, and web services). Alex has provided analysis, design, coding, testing, documentation and implementation of web solutions for major clients as ABC News, Mori Luggage, AmericasMart, Jerzees, and the award winning TAPPI tradeshow portal (awarded Most Comprehensive Site out of 1,800 industry Web sites). In addition, he possesses approximately three years of architecting experience and has performed data modeling utilizing software such as SQL Enterprise Manager and Visio. He has been awarded Developer of the Quarter Award by 3MC, Outstanding Leadership Award by Georgia State University, and The Fire Fighter's Award for timely project delivery.