VentureVest Board of Directors and Advisors
Phil E. Ray - President, Director
Mr. Ray is a business consultant assisting
companies with advertising, marketing, mergers and acquisitions and strategic planning.
Primary concentration has been on companies preparing for private placements or an
Initial Public Offering. Mr. Ray was Assistant Manager of Howlett Distributing in Las
Vegas, Nevada prior to founding his own advertising business in 1958. From 1958 until
1971, Mr. Ray served as owner and president of Advertising Productions of Nevada, Inc.
an advertising service and Phil E. Ray & Associates, a full service advertising agency.
Relocating in Colorado in 1971, in 1972, Mr. Ray founded and served as President and
Chairman of the Board of Electromedics, Inc. a Colorado corporation specializing in
medical products. Electromedics Inc. became a public company in 1974 through an
initial public offering. Electromedics continued to grow into a company with diversified
products in the medical, industrial and consumer products. Mr. Ray acquired the
consumer division of Electromedics in 1981, set up a new company and eventually
merged that company with a public company. Mr. Ray served as president of Zytech
Industries, Inc., a small public company from 1986 to 1990. And from 1994 to the
present has served as president and sole owner of American Business Services, Inc., a
business consulting company and spends full time consulting with companies. Mr. Ray
has had extensive experience in management of public and non-public companies,
developing national marketing programs, advertising and publications, product
development, investor relations, public offerings, corporate development, business plan
development, financing strategies for developing companies and many other areas of
corporate development and management.
James E. Kitchel - Vice President - Director
Mr. Kitchel, is founder and
President of Bonnevest Corporation, a private venture fund in operation since 1987. He
has a twenty five year history as a business founder, venture capitalist, national speaker
on capital formation and entrepreneurship, and financial advisor to private companies
structuring to go public. He has assisted numerous start-up companies, including three
companies of his own, from development stages through successful public offerings. As
an experienced venture capitalist he has managed a multi-million dollar portfolio which
has given him a keen understanding in balancing the needs of the investee client with
the needs of the shareholders and the financial community. He serves on the board of
directors of several companies, including MedFund Partners, LLC, a venture fund,
Health Venture Partners, LLC, a venture fund. It is possible that VentureVest may invest
in companies that Mr. Kitchel is either a stockholder and/or is on the board of directors of
the company one of the venture funds that Mr. Kitchel is an officer or director or part
owner of which has invested in a company that VentureVest might invest in.