Tim Harper CEO Cientifica Ltd Tel : +34 91 640 74 40 Fax : +34 640 71 86

1. Tim Harper CEO Cientifica Ltd Tel : +34 91 640 74 40 Fax : +34 640 71 86 tim.harper@cientifica.com Tim Harper is the founder & President of London based Cientifica Ltd, the world's leading source of global business intelligence about nanotechnologies. Tim has given over 100 invited talks and keynote lectures on nanotechnologies, ranging from scientific conferences to the boards of Fortune 500 companies, and ranging from economic implications to toxicology. He has been published in journals ranging from ‘Nanotechnology’ and 'Nature’ to ‘Microscopy and Analysis,’ in addition to being extensively quoted in media ranging from the Financial Times and Economist to Time and Business Week. He is also a co founder and director of UK based optical nanoscopy company NanoSight, the Founder and Executive Director of European NanoBusiness Association and is an advisor to many organizations around the globe including Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the European Commission, many of the world’s largest companies and national governments from Austria to Singapore. He is the co author of the Nanotechnology Opportunity Report™, described by NASA as "the defining report in the field of nanotechnology." In October 2002 Time Magazine described Tim as "the face of European nanotechnology" and profiled him in TIME Magazine's Digital Europe Top 25, as one of Europe's top 25 entrepreneurs. This was followed in November by recognition in Small Times Magazine who described Tim as "Europe’s pre-eminent nanotech spokesman outside of government." Since then, Cientifica has grown to be the world's largest nanotechnologies information, events and consulting company, operating through offices in London, Madrid, Oslo, Singapore and Mumbai. Tim also publishes, and occasionally edits, the weekly nanotechnology newsletter TNT Weekly which has been running since 2000 and is widely read across the entire nanotechnology community, from academics to investors and contributes a column to the Institute of Physics Nanotechweb site. Through the Spanish subsidiary CMP Cientifica the company also manages EU research programs ranging from nanoelectronics to nanotoxicology. With a degree in Physics from Coventry University, Tim was formerly an engineer at the European Space Agency's research and development centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, where he managed the micro and nanoscale characterization facility, and published extensively on analytical techniques and characterization of advanced materials.