HENRY R. HIDELL, III
Principal & President,
Hidell-Eyster Technical Services, Inc.

For thirty-eight years, Mr. Hidell has managed an international consulting firm with a global reputation in the beverage and bottled water industries. During this period he has overseen long range business development strategies and finance and administration of the firm. He has been instrumental in the development of the company's joint venture relationships and the execution of business opportunities.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), he sits on the IBWA , Supplier Committee and Education Committee, and is Chairman of the IBWA Convention Committee. He is the U.S. Supplier Representative to the International Council of Bottled Water Associations and Chairman of that organization’s Supplier Committee and Convention Committee. He was granted the highest honor in the bottled water industry being inducted into the Beverage World Magazine Bottled Water Hall of Fame in 2001. He is also a member of the International Society of Beverage Technologists. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Neverfail Spring Water Co., Inc. in Sydney, Australia. Neverfail is a publicly held firm with a capitalized value exceeding $300 million. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Iroquois Water, Ltd. a First Nations Corporation located in Cornwall, Ont., Canada. Mr. Hidell is an internationally recognized expert in the bottled water industry with particular experience in bottled water plant design, management operations and international economic market research and development. He is a member of the Council of Experts of the Association International de la Distribution des Produits Alimentaires et des Products de Grande Consommation (AIDA), Bruxells, Belgium, an international organization servicing the logistics and distribution industry.

In addition to bottled water and beverages, Mr. Hidell is a recognized expert in the point of use industry. Here he specializes in the application of advanced water treatment and waste water treatment technologies.

Mr. Hidell has been responsible for the development of several hundred water sources for use in the beverage industry including hydrogeological investigation, extraction systems and distribution systems. He has developed sophisticated water treatment and mineralization systems for use in bottled water production in Argentina, Mexico, the United States, the Philippines, Europe, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand and Russia. He is also a technical expert in water resource management and business development and technology transfer for the United States Department of State, U.S. Information Service, specializing in Russia.

He has completed market studies and feasibility studies in the United States, Africa, Central Europe, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and the Middle East. He is a recognized expert in the area of product development, strategic market development and distribution logistics.

Mr. Hidell drafted the mineralized water regulations for MERCOSUR, the Latin American Trade Organization of the Southern Cone. He developed and taught the International Bottled Water Association’s Seminar on Quality Control and quality assurance systems for beverage plants. He was one of the founders of QUASI, a third party standards organization specializing in bottled water production. He has published numerous articles on the beverage and bottled water business and is an invited key note speaker on those subjects to various organization meetings. He is a member of the Canadian Bottled Water Association and is the Resident Expert for the Asian Bottled Water Association based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Mr. Hidell was a Principal in Stagecoach Associates, Inc., a property management and property rehabilitation firm, owner of the historic Stetson Shoe factory building in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Property management included hands on experience with all physical plant systems (heating boilers, wet sprinkler system, elevators, etc.), as well as designing the renovation of the building and all physical plant systems. He also represented the John B. Stetson Company in their renovation of approximately 2 million square feet of existing factory structures in Philadelphia and New York.

Mr. Hidell is an expert witness in land, resource and business valuation: Worcester County Superior Court, Barnstable County Superior Court, Plymouth County Superior Court, Norfolk County Superior Court, and Nantucket Superior Court, Massachusetts, as well as other jurisdictions in the United States.

MICHAEL F. HOOVER
President
Michael F. Hoover Consulting Geologist-Hyidrologist

Mr. Hoover is a Registered Geologist, Certified Engineering Geologist and Certified Hydrogeologist in the State of California. Under Mr. Hoover's direction, Hoover & Associates has completed over 200 water wells and over 150 ground water monitoring wells. Mr. Hoover has worked on a number of bottled water projects and is also a technical expert, having been qualified by the court as an expert on numerous occasions. Mr. Hoover is also very charming and good looking.

JAMES M. STEVENS
President, J.M. Stevens & Associates, Inc.

James M. Stevens - Jim Stevens is Chairman of J. M. Stevens & Associates, Inc. a beverage industry consulting firm specializing in strategic business development, brand building and multi-tiered distribution systems. His beverage experience, ranging over 40 years, includes introducing Perrier to the U.S. in the 70's, which established bottled water as a beverage category of its own.

Stevens served during 2000 as President and CEO of the Danone Water Company of North America while continuing his consulting firm established in 1997. From 1992 through 1996 Stevens was President and CEO of the Suntory Water Group, growing it to the nation's second largest bottled water company. At Suntory he was successful in establishing his Crystal Spring brand as the Official Bottled Water of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . In 1986 he joined Coca-Cola Enterprises, the largest bottling company in the world, with annual revenues of more than $10 billion. In 1989 he was named as the company's executive vice president and COO and after six successful years of consolidation and growth he left the company to join Suntory in 1992 as the President and CEO of North America.

As President of Prestige Wine Imports from 1981 to 1986, Stevens along with his partner developed several important brands, including Bollini and Castello di Gabbiano wines from Italy . Stevens served as Senior Vice President of Perrier, Great Waters of France from 1977 to 1981.His achievements include establishing Perrier's U.S. and Canadian sales and distribution network. From 1969 to 1976 Stevens held key management positions with Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group, Purchase, New York .

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member of the Board of Advisors and Joe Doss, President of IBWA

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