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Burns was appointed a Non-Executive Director in March 1999. He was also a Senior Consultant to Early Stage Enterprises a New Jersey venture capital fund investing primarily in developing technology growth companies. From 1997 Burns has also been a member of the Boards of Directors of Synbiotics Corp which specialises in animal health care and Annovis Inc a specialty chemicals company and a Senior Advisor to AcrossFrontiers International Inc. He is currently Vice Chairman of Euclid Systems Corp an eye care company; Chairman of StablEyes Inc a biotechnology company in the eye care field and an advisor to a number of early stage technology companies. From 1986 to 1997 he was a Vice President/Principal of R&D Funding Corp the general partner of four research and development funds of Prudential Securities Incorporated and from 1991 until 1997 he served as Senior Vice President of Prudential Securities. In 1971 Mr Burns organised Minority Equity Capital Company Inc a multi-million dollar venture capital fund where he was the President Chief Executive Officer and a Director until 1985. Mr Burns previously practiced law in New York with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an LLB (Honours) from Harvard Law School. | 