Athanase Lavidas, Ph.D.

Athanase Lavidas, Ph.D., one of our directors since September 2003, is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Lavipharm Group, a pharmaceutical, cosmetics and consumer health products company in Greece, a position he has held since 1976. Dr. Lavidas is also Chairman of the Greece-U.S. Business Council and Secretary General of the Federation of Greek Industries, responsible for International Affairs. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Munich, his M.B.A from the Institut Superieur de Marketing et de Management in Paris, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Athens.