BiographiesName Description
Duke Best Duke Best, has been Corporate Controller of Health Sciences Group since July 2004. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Best was a management consultant with Acumen & Merit, LLC where he provided business management consulting and accounting outsourcing solutions - including operational processes restructuring, marketing initiative analysis and financial modeling - to a variety of industries. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Best was both a consultant and auditor with Arthur Andersen LLP. There he assisted clients build and increase profitability via diagnostics analysis to identify process improvement opportunities, overhead reduction options, and areas for technology improvements. Prior to 1997, Mr. Best worked as an accountant within a real estate and restaurant management company. Mr. Best holds a Bachelors degree in business communications from Chapman University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Sid Anderson Sid L. Anderson is a director of Health Sciences Group, Inc . On February 18, 2005, the Company appointed Mr. Sid L. Anderson to its Board of Directors. Since October 2000, Mr. Anderson has been a consultant to corporations on financial and strategic business matters. Mr. Anderson previously practiced law as a Partner with the law firm of Pray, Walker, Jackman, Williamson & Marlar where he specialized in securities law, taxation and mergers and acquisitions. Formerly, he was manager in the tax department of Peat Marwick, Mitchell & Co., currently KPMG, in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is expected to serve on the Board’s audit committee
Anthony DeBella Mr. Anthony DeBella is Director of Health Sciences Group, Inc. He has an impressive career as an entrepreneur having founded and operating several public Internet entertainment based businesses. Mr. DeBella is fluent in public company operations, compliance and finance. From 1994- 1997 Anthony was an Investment Executive (Series 7 Broker) at PaineWebber and completed the PaineWebber executive training Program. In 1998, Anthony was part of the team that developed WEBPay-Per-View.com, a music and entertainment website and theatre. In 1999 Anthony was part of the team that took WEBPay-Per-View public. In addition, 2001-2005 Anthony served as a corporate consultant, consulting in capital offerings, public relations, investor relations, mergers, acquisitions and 15c-211 and Edgar filings. Since 2005 Mr. DeBella has been working as a private Investment Banker, he has completed over $300 million in M&A transactions with large Private Equity Groups & Public Companies. Anthony DeBella graduated from the Wharton School of Business.
William Walker William T. Walker, Jr. is a Director of Health Sciences Group, Inc. Mr. Walker was appointed to the company’s Board of Directors in May, 2003, and is the founder of Walker Associates, a corporate finance consulting firm that acts as advisor to corporations and investment banks, and has served in that capacity since 1985. Prior to starting Walker Associates, he was Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Investment Banking for Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, a regional West Coast NYSE investment banking firm, where he directed its merger into the Kemper Insurance Group. Mr. Walker currently chairs the board of SupraLife International and its subsidiaries, and serves as a director of King Thomason Group, Stone Mountain Financial Systems, Digid Technologies and Desert Health Products, Inc. He has served as a board member of the Securities Industry Association, a Governor of the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, a member of the American Stock Exchange Advisory Committee, President of the Bond Club of Los Angeles, and Chairman of the California District Securities Industry Association. Mr. Walker graduated from Stanford University and served in the United States Air Force.
