Management

Gregory Kowal, Chief Executive Officer of Mera and the Consumer Products Division.

Gregory Kowal has served as a director of Mera since June 2002. He cofounded First Honolulu Securities, Inc. in 1979 and remains a principal in that firm. He is currently Chairman of the Board and Portfolio Manager of First Honolulu Asset management and is on the financial advisory board of Concordia Financial, a California truck leasing servicing firm. Mr. Kowal has served on various supervisory court appointed groups working with and overseeing the sale of companies during reorganization, including the sale of Wickes Lumber, a billion dollar company that was completed in 2004. Mr. Kowal received his degree from Roosevelt University(Chicago, Il) in 1972 with a degree in management and finance.

Kenneth Crowder, Chief Operating Officer of the Consumer Products Division.

Mr. Crowder was elected to the Board of Directors of Mera Pharmaceuticals in September 2003. He also serves as President and CEO of Concordia Finance, a corporation which he founded in 1994. Mr. Crowder is a founding shareholder, and a member of the advisory board to the President, of Chino Commercial Bank, which opened in 2000. Mr. Crowder worked for 35 years as a scientist and engineer in the aerospace industry. He retired from Northrop Grumman in 1993. He received a BA from the University of California, Riverside, in 1960 and an MA from California State University, Long Beach, in 1966.

Melanie Kelekolio, Vice President And General Manager Of The Operations And Production Facility

Melanie Kelekolio joined the company in May 1999 as a Research Associate and later became the Team Leader of Production in 2001. Ms. Kelekolio also served as Research Manager from 2006 and was appointed General Manager of Operations in January 2008. She has been instrumental in the optimization of our cultivation and scale up processes used to produce the Haematococcus algae and astaxanthin products, as well as Research and Development projects now in the works. Ms. Kelekolio has over 15 years of experience in the aquaculture field.

Sonolynne Flores, Vice President/Director of Sales & Marketing

Mrs. Flores joined the company in July 2000 as a research technician in the Cultivation Dept. and later was in charge of the Culture Laboratory. She was instrumental in the scale up of the last two phases of the Rincon Pharmaceutical Project. Mrs. Flores previously worked as the General Restaurant Manager for several of the former McWen Corp. Restaurants and Theo H. Davies Food Group throughout the state of Hawaii. She was also the Company Operations Officer and Office Manager of the corporate Bad Ass Coffee Co., USA.