HUGH A. ADAMS, BBA, MBA, is Executive Director and has over 25 years of experience in diversified domestic and international assignments. Most recently, Mr. Adams has completed a tour in Fiji. Prior to that, in Vietnam, he authored, translated and published the authoritative Vietnamese language text on International Accounting Standards and other books, while establishing a profitable company in the food sector. He spent over two years in Armenia on a series of assignments. He has worked with a number of state-owned and newly privatized enterprises, where he provided finance, enterprise restructuring, marketing and accounting (including accounting conversion of Soviet GOS accounting into IAS standards) advice. He has provided computer and networking consulting to the Armenian Ministry of Finance, bank auditing services to EURSIA foundation and survey services to the World Bank. In addition, he developed and managed a project of developing a physical plant layout and system redesign for another client. His European assignments have included clients such as the OECD and the IMF, for which he has developed workflow studies and implementation plans in imaging and document management application. In addition, Mr. Adams has over seven years of experience in nuclear and coal-fired power plants. He has created computer cost models and has published papers on power plant construction cost forecasting. He also worked for the Ford Motor Company for several years. He has organized companies and developed securitization programs for financing the purchasing of account receivables. As a company CFO, he has led a successful IPO (NASDAQ) as well as participated in multiple corporate turnaround projects. Mr. Adams has served as a board member for a public company and has been a professor of accounting, auditing and other business courses at the graduate and undergraduate level at American University of Armenia, L'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris and Strayer University, Washington DC. Mr. Adams speaks English and German.