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Management

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Management Profiles:

Chris Berka - Chief Executive Officer
Daniel J. Levendowski - President
Philip R. Westbrook, M.D. - Chief Medical Officer
Delmer W. Henninger, M.D. - Medical Director
Donald L. Carper, J.D. - Vice President, Compliance

Chris Berka, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder: Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Berka built a business at Psychemedics Corporation, which developed and introduced a patented forensic test to liquefy hair in order to identify the usage of illegal drugs. She recruited the team of scientific and medical advisors, designed and implemented clinical trials, and presented the results at scientific meetings and in publications. As the technology gained scientific acceptance, she developed the marketing strategy, identifying four distinct target markets. Chris then served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and grew the company to over $17 million in annual revenues. She was responsible for the design and implementation of advertising, marketing communications materials, trade show exhibits, seminar series and direct mail campaigns. She produced corporate videos and developed the training program for the company's sales and customer service departments. She made over 300 presentations to scientific and trade organizations, Fortune 500 firms and Government agencies and has co-authored over 20 papers. Chris also has 10 years experience as a Research Scientist and Laboratory Supervisor and has published scientific papers on the analysis of physiological signals, including EEG recordings in epileptic patients and hyperactive children. She received her B.A. with distinction in Psychology/Biology at Ohio State University. In her postgraduate work, she was a Regents fellow and National Institute of Mental Health fellow at the UCSD and a Clinical Research fellow at UCLA.

Daniel J. Levendowski, President & Co-Founder: Mr. Levendowski has served as the Principal Investigator on four Phase-I and six Phase II National Institute of Health Small Business Innovative Research Grants totaling $6.5 million. As part of the research effort, Mr. Levendowski oversaw the acquisition of the Company's proprietary clinical study database, and managed the software and hardware development teams. Mr. Levendowski is responsible for developing many of the algorithms used to automate the analysis of physiological signals. He is co-inventor in six patents as by the USPTO a result of his work. Mr. Levendowski is currently serving as the Principal Investigator on two Phase II grants. One grant will result in a commercial product called the Alertness and Memory Profiler (AMP), a clinical tool used to objectively quantify daytime drowsiness and memory. The second grant is to make improvements to the Apnea Risk Evaluation System, an FDA cleared in-home procedure for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea. His involvement as a researcher in several DARPA grants will result in advancements to the B-Alert Wireless EEG System in anticipation of commercial launch in 2005. Prior to joining Advanced Brain Monitoring, Mr. Levendowski served as a VP, MPR Health Systems and co-invented a patented technology to detect back muscle dysfunction. He has also served as the COO and CFO of Psychemedics, a publicly traded company. Mr. Levendowski completed his B.S. degree in 1985 from University of Pacific (Cum Laude) and received his M.B.A. from the Anderson School, University of California, Los Angeles in 1989.

Philip R. Westbrook, M.D., Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Westbrook joined the Company as its Chief Medical Officer in 2001, and serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA and has been actively involved in the professional organizations associated with sleep disorders. He served as President of the American Sleep Disorder Association (ASDA) and member of the Board of Directors and Standards of Practice Committee and was acknowledged by the ASDA with a Distinguished Service Award in 1992. Since 1991, Dr. Westbrook has presented over 100 guest lectures to professional organizations, was Editor-in-Chief of the Sleep Medicine Review, an editor for Sleep, a guest reviewer for Chest and an Ad Hoc reviewer for The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Westbrook has co-authored five book chapters and five review papers relating to sleep medicine and over 15 journal articles and 13 abstracts. Dr. Westbrook received his medical degree from Stanford University in 1960. He was a clinical fellow and Associate Professor of Medicine at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN and founding Director of the Sleep Disorder Centers at the Mayo Clinic from 1980 through 1989 and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA from 1989 through 1995. From 1995 to 2001 he was President of Pacific Sleep Medicine, a network of sleep specialists in Southern California providing diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. Dr. Westbrook received his M.D. and B.S. from Stanford University.

Delmer W. Henninger, M.D., Medical Director: Dr. Henninger joined the company as Medical Director in 2004, and is responsible for medical interpretation and quality control of the ARES Sleep Study Reports. Dr. Henninger brings over 15 years of experience in respiratory care and sleep medicine to the company, and he is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Disorders Medicine. In addition to his role at Advanced Brain Monitoring, Dr. Henninger has served as medical director of the Murrieta Sleep Medical Clinic since 1994, Medical Director of Utilization Review/Medical Records at Southwest HealthCare System since 2001, and as Director of the Respiratory Care Departments in both the SouthWest HealthCare System (Rancho Springs & Inland Valley Hospitals) and the Valley HealthCare System (Hemet & Menifee Hospitals) between 1989 and 2000. Dr. Henninger earned his B.A. cum laude at UC San Diego, M.D. from St. Georges University School of Medicine, and served as Pulmonary/Critical Fellow at University of Missouri Health Science Center.

Donald L. Carper, J.D., Vice President of Compliance & Corporate Secretary: Mr. Carper joined the Company as its Vice President, Compliance and Corporate Secretary in July 2004 and is a Director and Secretary. Mr. Carper has been a professor at the California State University, Sacramento College of Business since 1986. At CSUS he served as Chair of the Department of Organization Behavior and Environment. He has been a neutral arbitrator and mediator serving on the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel. He is an Associate with the California Center for Collaborative Policy and served on the Northern California Advisory Committee for the American Arbitration Association for several years. Between 1984 and 1986 Mr. Carper served as managing attorney for a Law Corporation practicing health and corporation law. Under grants from the U.S. Department of State Mr. Carper coordinated the establishment of two mediation centers in the Kaluga, Oblast in Russia. In addition he worked on ADR programs and training of judges and lawyers in West Africa. He has created and participated in training programs for lawyers and judges from Russia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Korea and China. He has published several textbooks, and teaching supplements for Thompson Learning and West's Educational Publishing emphasizing business and personal law. He served as a professor at the School of Business of the University of Pacific from 1979 through 1985 and Assistant Dean at the McGeorge School of Law from 1971 through 1977. Mr. Carper earned a J.D. from McGeorge School of Law and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Science from California State University, Chico in Personnel and Industrial Relations. He is licensed to practice law in the State of California.