Background

Mr. Boles began his career as a Research Chemist with DuPont in 1959. After his subsequent appointment as Director of New Ventures, he managed the development and commercialization of new technologies, diversification strategies, acquisitions, international joint ventures, and corporate partnerships with major chemical and materials companies around the world. Following a Federal Circuit Court decision requiring DuPont to divest its substantial ownership in General Motors, Mr. Boles took responsibility for restructuring the two companies complicated commercial relationship, which had its roots in DuPont’s financing of General Motors in the 1920s.

In April 1968, Mr. Boles was granted a leave of absence by DuPont to become Deputy Director of Nelson Rockefeller's presidential campaign, a position giving him responsibility for the campaign activities in all fifty states. During that period, he co-founded the Coalition for a Republican Alternative, a political action and fund raising organization. He subsequently served as a Special Assistant to Vice President Hubert Humphrey as well as Vice Chairman of Senator Robert Dole's presidential campaign in 1988.

Following the Rockefeller campaign, Mr. Boles was recruited by Itek Corporation, a high technology company and Rockefeller portfolio investment, whose principal businesses consisted of classified photo/optical reconnaissance and electronic countermeasure systems as well as office communications products. As Senior Vice President of Itek, Mr. Boles supervised acquisitions, divestitures, international operations, and corporate research laboratories. He also was the Chief Executive Officer of several Itek subsidiary companies and Chairman of the Corporate Science Advisory Board comprised of eight world-renowned scientists including four Nobel Laureates in physics and chemistry.

In 1972, Mr. Boles founded Boles & Company (later renamed Windsor Group) to provide international trade, trade finance, corporate finance and investment banking services to domestic and foreign companies. He has concluded numerous financings, acquisitions, and corporate partnership transactions around the world. He also served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Allied Canners & Packers, Spicers International, Ltd. the Corporation for International Settlements, Communications Central, Inc., and Biological Detection Systems, Inc. Other directorships have included Microform Data Systems, Inc., Palolab Pharmaceuticals, PharmX Corporation, Itek/Agfa Gavert, Data Copy Corporation, Itek/Vickers UK, Itek/Sony and Visible Genetics, Inc.

Mr. Boles retired from the Windsor Group in June of 2000. He served as Chairman of Cellomics, Inc., a drug discovery company he co-founded and acquired by Fisher Scientific; Chairman of the Investment Advisory Board of Intercontinental Capital, a private investment partnership; and a Partner of CEO Venture Fund. He also served as a director or trustee of several non-profit organizations including the Land Trust of Virginia, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Jamestown Compact.