Board of Directors

David Craven, Esq., Chairman of the Board
Mr. Craven is a partner in the Chicago firm Riggle and Craven, which concentrates in customs and international trade, including the complex area of export control. He has also been involved in third world development. His contributions resulted in the recent substantial revision of the Rules of Origin for the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa. Mr. Craven's skill and experience in these arenas will be valuable to CHC, since the international character of its projects requires detailed consideration of restrictions on the transfer of technology and information, as well as a careful examination of any restrictions on the importation of products into various countries.

David Jourdan
Mr. Jourdan is the founder and president of Nauticos LLC, a company devoted to the exploration of the deep oceans. His career has concentrated in the areas of deep ocean remote sensing, underwater navigation, and ocean technology development. He has served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy, as a physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and for over 17 years as the leader of Nauticos.

Nauticos conducts ocean search and survey operations in support of scientific, archaeological, and military programs. Mr. Jourdan has played a key role in the development of the company's renavigation process, a major reason that Nauticos has been successful in deep ocean explorations. Key projects include the successful search for the I-52, a WWII Japanese submarine found in the mid Atlantic at a depth of 17,000 feet; discovery of the DAKAR, an Israeli submarine found in the Mediterranean at a depth of 10,000 feet; and discovery of a 2,300-year-old Greek trading vessel nearly two miles beneath the Mediterranean.

In 1999 Mr. Jourdan was honored as Maryland's Small Business Person of the Year and awarded Ernest and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in Science and Technology.

Charlotte Vick
Ms. Vick is all ocean, all the time. Her passion for the ocean and the life within it began with an assignment to work with island communities as a U.S. government employee in the mid-1970s. That assignment included monitoring the newly-emerging International Law of the Sea Treaty and its potential impact on economic, resource and foreign policy with respect to the U.S. affiliated islands and territories. It was the beginning of a life long interest in everything that happens in and near the ocean.

Today she spends all her professional time in pursuit of ocean sustainability while working with a broad spectrum of enterprises and non-profits. Current projects include ocean education and awareness initiatives in both television and interactive media as well as several business application projects using ocean technology. Her international marketing, business planning and project development experience provides CHC access to her global network of contacts. Ms. Vick led many of CHC's previous business development efforts and continues to guide the company in many new projects.

Having lived in and worked with island communities for over 30 years, Ms. Vick knows first-hand how DOW systems can contribute to the future of coastal communities and she believe that the technologies CHC provides will contribute to sustaining life on Earth.

Stephen Craven
Mr. Craven founded Kekepana International Services in 2004, offering consulting and research services for international business. He advises firms about coping with import restrictions, investment ideas, using international trade shows, changing trade policies, dealing with governments, competing for procurements, and cross-cultural business issues. His advice is grounded in long experience as an American diplomat helping to sell U.S. products around the world. He managed the commercial sections of U.S. embassies in Germany, Singapore, Austria and Slovakia, as well at the American Institute in Taiwan. Mr. Craven was a negotiator in the Tokyo Round trade talks and headed up the U.S. Commerce Department's trade policy operations, negotiating international agreements on export subsidies, import licensing, dispute settlement, trade in aircraft, and use of product standards. His accomplishments include helping to break the French monopoly on European satellite launches, easing the way for U.S. companies to win the major contracts on the Taipei mass transit system, enabling U.S. power producers to break into the former East German market and more. He ran the U.S. pavilions at some of the world's top trade shows, and managed the Commerce Department's export promotion offices in the Rocky Mountains, the Southwest and Hawaii.

Mr. Craven chairs the Hawaii Pacific Export Council. He is co-creator (with Charlotte Vick) and a producer of Business Beyond the Reef, a weekly radio talk show about Hawaii's role in international business.