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 has a diverse professional background in both the public and private sectors and serves CHC as Chairman of the Board. With extensive experience in economic planning and industrial development, she brings considerable knowledge of international business and trade. Active in the Pacific and Asia for nearly three decades, she maintains a strategic international network of business and government contacts.  

Ms. Vick is senior vice president for International Marketing at Starr Seigle Communications in Honolulu. She has chaired the U.S. Department of Commerce's Hawai'i Pacific Export Council, served on the Department's National Export Council Steering Committee as a U.S. Western Region representative, and advised many government development programs. In her previous work with the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research, she worked specifically on the marketing of deep ocean water products. She understands first-hand how DOW systems will transform life in coastal cummunities.