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JEFFREY SCHILLER is the founder and president of the International Aromatherapy and Herb Association, and
publisher / editor of Making Scents Magazine. He instructs classes on the uses of essential oils, and is a special feature columnist. His columns have appeared in many health and environmental related publications.
BRUCE LEFTAKES is the publisher of Health Products Business, a widely read publication in the natural products industry.
KLAUS LAPSCHIES has 50 years experience in the graphic arts, and 24 years in the label business. He is operations manager for Best Label Co., Inc., well-known in the nutraceutical industry. Klaus is the president of the Southern California Label Manufacturers and a group director of the Printing Industries of America.
NICK CALVETTI is the president of Amherst Label, a respected label manufacturer for nearly 25 years. Nick recently completed a 3 year term on the board of directors of the Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute.
BILL WHITFIELD has been in the printing field for over 20 years. He is director of corporate prepress for MPI Labels. Bill's expertise is coordinating software, hardware, art, platemaking, printing and proofing, to produce high quality labels.
ELISHA TROPPER is president of Prestige Label, a leading digital and flexographic printer and converter of pressure-sensitive labels in the aroma, herb, nutraceutical, and supplement industries. Elisha is also a regular columnist for Label and Narrow Web magazine, and a contributing writer to numerous other general interest and trade magazines. Previously, he was a business strategy consultant, and has an MBA from Columbia Business School in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Management.
BRAD STILLAHN has 26 years of packaging industry experience. After 11 years with Owens-Illinois in glass and paper packaging, he became Menasha Corporation's Director of Corporate Marketing in 1987, focusing on promotional applications for printed labels and packaging. He has been the owner of Adstick Custom Lables since 1991. Brad is a frequent speaker on marketing and manufacturing improvement at industry trade events.
LON BALL is the founder and president of Klickitat Organics, an organic herb company with staff in farms in China, Russia and the state of Washington, in the USA. Lon has served on the board of directors of several organic certification agencies such as; WSDA, OCIA, and OTA, and is the co-founder of Oregon, and Washington Tilth. Lon was also the founder of Trout Lake Farm Co., which he developed into 2000 acres of intensively farmed cropland. TLF became the premier producer, processor and marketer of organically grown medicinal plants and spices in 12 countries. He sold TLF in 2000, and started Klickitat Organics.
RANA B. RAWAL is the executive director of a company in Nepal producing herbs and essential oils. He overseas research, cultivation, processing and marketing activities of medicinal and aromatic plants.
DR. YURY KRONN is a leading researcher and theoretician in the field of subtle energy and subtle energy technologies with a depth of understanding and knowledge of this subject that reaches far outside the parameters of current western scientific thought. Educated in the Soviet Union, he holds a Ph.D. in physics and mathematics and a doctorate in quantum radio physics. He came to the USA as a political refugee in 1988 where he continued his work, transforming the knowledge of the ancient medical traditions into the language of modern physics and developing the first technology able to generate versatile bio-energetic formulas, Vital Force Technology.
SOM PRASAD GAUCHAN is with a company in Nepal that produces herbs, tea and essential oils.
KRISHNA RAM AMATYA has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and is a respected biochemist. Dr. Amatya is managing director of a company that produces herbs and essential oils in Nepal.
THOMAS CADY is president of Cady Development LLC, a real estate developer, mortgage banker and insurance company. He previously was president of WR Grace and Company, and was in project management and engineering for Millipore Corporation. His experience includes: 20 years of engineering, 15 years real estate development, and 12 years of Toastmaster speaking.
