Gary W. Pankonien
Chief Executive Officer

Gary W. Pankonien joined Nano Risk Assessment, Inc. in January 2009. He brings to the company more than 30 years experience in founding, building and managing high tech companies, both public and private, funded personally or through venture financing.

Prior to nanoTox, Mr. Pankonien was the president and CEO of Nanotechnologies, Inc, a provider of custom engineered nanopowders. He was the president and CEO of CALEB Technologies and founder and CEO of 1st TECH Corp., which merged with Tanisys (Nasdaq: TNSU). He also was president of both Emergent Technologies, Inc,’s Fund III and WesTech Ventures I, L.P. and as CEO of Auxano Biomedical, a fund portfolio company.

Mr. Pankonien spent seven years at Compaq Computer Corporation where he co-developed and currently holds the patent for the first notebook computer and several other patents. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1972 with a BSEE degree in electronics and serves on the Board of Directors for several private companies.
 
Harry Bushong
President

President and cofounder of nanoTox, Inc., Harry Bushong’s expertise includes work in the life sciences, raising capital for startups and leveraging value in intellectual property.

In 2003, Mr. Bushong worked with The Olmsted Group, a New York life sciences merchant bank with a licensed portfolio including Intellectual Property from Columbia University, Wisconsin University, MIT, Vanderbilt and Baylor College of Medicine in the fields of stem cells, genomics, biotech and hepatocytes. Mr. Bushong assisted several companies formed around a proprietary piece of intellectual property, including Omnimmune Corp., Plurion, Zirus (formerly Avatar), and Amphioxus. Amphioxus recently merged with Plurion to form Stem Cell Innovations, Inc. In addition, he worked with both public and private enterprises at Aurora Financial Services, a private NASD broker/dealer focused on the energy sector.

Mr. Bushong formed Wired Capital a private equity network series to assist early stage investors identify promising technological and industrial enterprises in Austin, Houston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Miami. He also helped transform a solutions management animation company into one of Austin’s earliest streaming media companies, securing three rounds of investments, a $3.5 Million encoding contract, and an international management team to promote the business model.

Mr. Bushong earned his National Association Of Securities Dealers Series 7 and 63 licenses while with Prudential Financial Services in Austin.
 
William Stahl
Chief Financial Officer

Certified Public Account William Stahl joined nanoTox in 2005 and has 34 years of experience in various companies and industries in increasingly complex financial management and accounting positions.

Prior to nanoTox, he had a private accounting practice and was CFO, Corporate Secretary and Corporate Treasurer for three separate start-up companies. Mr. Stahl was Senior Executive and CFO for an Austin, Texas-based indirect lender of consumer automobile contracts. Most notably, he led the Initial Public Offering of this firm, responsible for regulatory registrations and filings, negotiations and investment bankers. He managed all aspects of the firm’s financial operation and was instrumental in developing its financial and accounting infrastructure as it grew from 25 employees to over 125.

During Mr. Stahl’s ten years with the securities industry, he obtained Series 7 and Series 4 securities licenses and led the Financial Strategies support group of Westcap Securities serving more than 100 brokers primarily in asset-liability management for financial institutions.

Greg King
Chief Operations Officer

Gregory King joined nanoTox in 2008, bringing with him 30 years of international business and finance experience representing Fortune 500 companies throughout Europe, in Asia and in North and Latin America.

As Director of Corporate Treasury for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ largest U.S. subsidiary, Mr. King created a state of the art treasury operation, ensuring the appropriate financial structure for this capital goods manufacturer. In a joint venture with Citi Capital, he created a $1 billion retail finance program covering the U.S., Canada and major European countries.

He also arranged or provided financing for distributors in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and other Latin American countries. With Caterpillar, Inc., Mr. King’s responsibilities included foreign exchange management, management of Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation, financial representation to Latin America and exports to Europe and Asia. Mr. King also served on the Board of Directors for Rocla Oyj, Helsinki, Finland. Mr. King earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

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