Our
Team


Executive

Nozhat Choudry, PhD
Vice President, Clinical Research

Nozhat Choudry, PhD, became our Vice President, Clinical Research in February 2006. Ms. Choudry has an accomplished history in clinical trial management. She joined OccuLogix from Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies, where she worked for the past 9 years most recently as Director of the National Medicine Department. From March 1993 to August 1996 Ms. Choudry worked at Ciba-Geigy where she had increasingly senior roles in clinical trial management. Ms. Choudry earned her PhD in Clinical Pharmacology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, England and has done extensive post-graduate research and publishing in both pharmacology and medicine.

William (Bill) G. Dumencu, CA
Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

William (Bill) G. Dumencu, CA, has served as our Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since April 2006. Mr. Dumencu has served as OccuLogix's V.P. Finance since June 2005 and was previously OccuLogix's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from September 2003. From January 2003 to August 2003, Mr. Dumencu was a consultant for us and TLC Vision Corporation and from 1998 until 2002, Mr. Dumencu served in a variety of financial leadership positions at TLC Vision including Controller. Mr. Dumencu was employed in various financial management positions by Hawker Siddeley Canada, Inc., a manufacturing conglomerate from 1978 to 1998.

Stephen J. Kilmer
Vice President, Investor and Public Affairs

Stephen J. Kilmer became our Vice President, Investor & Public Affairs in July 2004. Mr. Kilmer was Vice President, Investor Relations of TLC Vision from December 2003 to October 2004. From October 2000 until December 2003, he was Director of Corporate Communications for TLC Vision and from October 1998 until October 2000, he was Director of Investor Relations for TLC Vision. From September 1997 until October 1998, Mr. Kilmer was Manager of Investor Relations for TLC Vision.

Thomas P. Reeves
President and Chief Operating Officer

Thomas P. Reeves has served as our President and Chief Operating Officer of OccuLogix, Inc. since September 2004. Mr. Reeves was the President of Borderfree, an international e-commerce service provider and of the Canada Post Borderfree Partnership, from March 2001 to September 2004. He was the Chief Executive Officer from January 2003 to September 2004. From 1998 until 2000, Mr. Reeves was President of Beamscope Canada Inc., a retail distributor of micro-computer products. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Reeves was President of Merisel Canada, a subsidiary of one of the largest distributors of micro-computer products. From 1992 until 1994, Mr. Reeves was Managing Director of Merisel Europe where he was responsible for all strategic, financial and operational aspects of subsidiaries in the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Russia.

Elias Vamvakas
Chairman and CEO

Elias Vamvakas has been OccuLogix's Chairman since June 2003 and the Company's Chief Executive Officer since July 2004. Mr. Vamvakas co-founded TLC Vision Corporation in 1993.  He was a director of TLC Vision from 1994 to 2007 and was its Chairman from 1994 to 2006. Mr. Vamvakas was also TLC Vision's Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to July 2004. He was named to "Canada's Top Forty Under Forty" in 1996. In 1999 he was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for Ontario in the Emerging Category and Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year for Innovative Partnering. In 2000, Mr. Vamvakas was recognized by Profit Magazine for managing one of Canada's fastest growing companies.


Directors

Thomas N. Davidson
Board Member since September 2004

Thomas N. Davidson has been a member of our board since September 2004 and has been on the board of TLC Vision since 2002. Mr. Davidson has been Chairman of NuTech Precision Metals Inc. and Chairman of Quarry Hill Group, a private investment holding company, since 1986. NuTech Precision Metals Inc. is a manufacturer of high performance metal fabrications for the health care, aerospace, high technology and chemical industries. Mr. Davidson is past Chairman of Hanson Chemical Inc., a supplier of specialty chemical products, and General Trust PCL Packaging Inc., a supplier of plastic packaging. Mr. Davidson is the non-executive Chairman of Azure Dynamics Corporation, a developer of hybrid electrical vehicle systems for commercial vehicles. He is on the board of CMA Holdings, Inc. and MDC Partners, Inc. and was recognized by the Financial Post as the Canadian Entrepreneur of the year in 1979.

Adrienne L. Graves, Ph.D.
Board Member since April 2005

Since 2002, Dr. Graves has been President and CEO of Santen Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan's Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4536). She joined Santen Inc. in 1995 as Vice President of Clinical Affairs to initiate the company's clinical development in the U.S. Under her leadership, Santen's research and development team successfully developed and obtained U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") approval for three ophthalmic products in major therapeutic areas. Santen's U.S. products are now marketed by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care. Prior to joining Santen Inc., Dr. Graves spent nine years with Alcon Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:ACL), beginning in 1986 as a Senior Scientist. In 1991, she received Alcon's Technical Excellence Award and, as her research progressed, was named Associate Director of Alcon's Clinical Science Division in 1992 and then Director of International Ophthalmology in 1993. Dr. Graves is the author of over 30 research papers. She is a member of a number of professional associations, including the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Glaucoma Society, and Women in Ophthalmology. In addition, Dr. Graves co-founded Ophthalmic Women Leaders with Dr. Marguerite McDonald.

Jay T. Holmes
Board Member since September 2004

Jay T. Holmes has been a member of our board since September 2004 and has been self-employed as an attorney and business consultant since mid-1996. From 1981 until mid-1996, Mr. Holmes held several senior management positions at Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, the most recent being Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer from 1995 to 1996 and Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer from 1993 to 1995. From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Holmes was Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, and from 1981 to 1983 Vice President and General Counsel at Bausch & Lomb. Mr. Holmes was a member of the Board of Directors of Bausch & Lomb from 1986 until 1996. Mr. Holmes also serves on the Advisory Board of Directors of Rochester Energy and on the board of IntraLase Corp.

Richard L. Lindstrom, MD
Board Member since September 2004

Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, has been a member of our board since September 2004 and has served as a director of TLC Vision since May 2002 and, prior to that, as a director of LaserVision since November 1995. Since 1979, Dr. Lindstrom has been engaged in the private practice of ophthalmology and has been the President of Minnesota Eye Consultants P.A., a provider of eye care services, or its predecessor since 1989. In 1989, Dr. Lindstrom founded the Phillips Eye Institute Center for Teaching & Research, an ophthalmic research and surgical skill education facility, and he currently serves as the Center's Medical Director. Dr. Lindstrom has served as an Associate Director of the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank since 1987. He is a medical advisor for several medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. From 1980 to 1989, he served as a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Lindstrom received his Doctor of Medicine, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Sciences degrees from the University of Minnesota.

Georges Noël
Board Member since July 2003

Georges Noël has been a member of our board since July 2003. Mr. Noël has been involved in the private equity and venture capital industry for over 14 years and between 2002 and 2003, was the Secretary General of the Belgian Venturing Association. Mr. Noël has recently been appointed as Director of Research, Public Affairs and Development of the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Associations. Mr. Noël's professional experience in private equity has encompassed a range of roles and responsibilities at various private equity houses, including: CAM Private Equity, the Cologne-based fund of funds; Ostbelgieninvest AG; Eupen; and Fortis Private Equity NV. Prior to his involvement in private equity, Mr. Noël was Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Committee of the industrial group NMC sa in Eupen, a company that develops, produces and markets synthetic foam products, between 1982 and 1993. He held various positions in corporate banking at G´enerale de Banque, now Fortis Bank, and was Managing Directorof its German subsidiary, Belgische Bank, between 1971 and 1981. Mr. Noël serves on the boards of several investee or family-owned companies, is past president of the Belgium Venturing Association and of the IMD Alumni Club of Belgium. Mr. Noël was a member of the EVCA National Venture Capital Associations Committee from 2000 to 2003.

Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, Ph.D.
Board Member Since April 2005

Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, Ph.D., has been a member of our board since April 2005. Dr. Omenn is Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health at the University of Michigan. He served as Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs and as Chief Executive Officer of the University of Michigan Health System from 1997 to 2002. He was formerly Dean of the School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Omenn received his B.A. from Princeton, the M.D., from Harvard Medical School, and a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Washington. He is a member of the Council and leader of the Plasma Proteome Project for the international Human Proteome Organization, and in 2005 became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Omenn is a longtime director of Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) and of Rohm & Haas Company (NYSE:ROH).