User:Boris Birshtein

Boris J. Birshtein, Ph.D.

T 416.414.8644 ▪boris@birshtein.com http://www.borisbirshtein.com

PERSONAL DATA

   Canadian Citizen, Born in Lithuania in 1947    Fluent in English, Hebrew and Russian    Understands German

CAREER & BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS

   Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and principal shareholder of TrimolGroup, Inc., a publicly held company traded in the U.S.  (1998 – Present)

   Chairman of the Board of Directors and principal shareholder of Royal HTM Group, Inc. (1997 – Present)

   Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of BancaCommercialapeActiuni “Export- Import” (1994 – 2006)

   Founder of Media Holdings NIT, a media consortium that owned and operated a television station, radio station, three newspapers and the news agency Interlic (1997-2002)

   Founder, Chairman of the Board and controlling shareholder of SEABECO Group, a Swiss corporation engaged in international trading activities in Eastern Europe. (1981 – 1996)

PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES

  Building on a lifetime of charitable works, in 2000, Dr. Birshtein established the Birshtein Foundation, dedicated to improving the health, strengthening the economy and promotinga healthy childhood for the people of Moldova.Among other things, theBirshteinfoundation has:

▪ Established and funded a university scholarship program awarding over one-hundred scholarshipsper year to financially challenged youths in Moldova (1998-2006) ▪ Provided the support for an orphanage of handicapped children in Hinchest, Moldova (1998-2006)    ▪ Responded to the February 1998 natural disaster in Moldova, organized emergency relief todisaster victims and constructed and donated homes to families in the village of      Leushen (1998) ▪ Worked with a team of top Israeli surgeons and provided the financial support for numerous life saving emergency heart surgeries for Moldovan children.

   Funded the reopening of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Chisinau, Moldova, a historic museum founded in 1939 closed by the government due to lack of funding (1998).

   Brokered the Transnistriacease fire in 1992, a peace that continues to this day.

EDUCATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Honorary Doctorate of Law Degree from the Universitas Sancti Cyrilli, Bari,Italy (2006).

  Ph.D. in Economics from the International Information Academy, in general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (2000).

  Ph.D. in Philosophy from the International Information Academy, in general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (1997). HONORS & MEMBERSHIPS

  Awarded the Order of Merit “Foreign Trade” by the Belgium Business Club (2002)

  Awarded the Order for Outstanding Achievements in Informationology from the International Information Academy (2000).

  Active member of the New York Academy of Sciences (2000-Present).

  Member of the Executive Committee of the Moldavian Branch of the International Information Academy (1997- 2006)

  Member of the International Information Academy (which has a general status with the Economic & Social Council of the United Nations (1992).

  Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council under the President of the Republic of Moldova (1992).

  Chairman of the Committee for Economic Reconstruction under thePresident of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan(1991).

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Russia on the Breaking Point of the Centuries, 2003 (updated and republished in 2008)

Partnership for life, 2002

Russia: A Decade of Upheaval, 2000

World Food Crisis, Problems and Perspectives, 1999

Moldova Undiscovered, 1998

Reform-Problem of Market EconomyRegulations in the C.I.S. Countries, 1997.

Treatis:

The Shadow Economy, presented in Moscow in the spring of 1998, earnedDr. Birshtein the prestigious International Information Academy Silver Stylus Award.

