Richard P. Kundrat
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Mr. Kundrat has served since our inception as a director and our Chief Executive Officer. He was elected as our Chairman of the Board in March 2000. He has more than 30 years experience in the beverage industry, including a total of 27 years in various positions at Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., the Lipton subsidiary of Unilever NV, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey ("Unilever/Lipton") from which he retired in June 1996. Upon his retirement form Unilever/Lipton, he founded the business management firm, Kundrat Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, which he operated full-time until he joined NuVim in September 1999. From November 1991 to June 1996, Mr. Kundrat was the General Manager of the Unilever/Lipton and Pepsi-Cola partnership. From June 1987 to November 1991, he was the Vice President/General Manager of the Food service, Bottler, Dairy Division at Unilever/Lipton. Mr. Kundrat received his B.A. degree from the University of Scranton. He currently is a director of Dialog Group, Inc.

Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Board

Mr. Peter B. Hutt who previously served on our Board of Directors, has been appointed to serve as a special advisor to the Chairman of the Board, specifically to consult on Food and Drug Administration matters. Since 1965, Mr. Hutt has been a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling, where he specializes in food and drug law. Mr. Hutt served as Chief Counsel for the Food and Drug Administration from 1971 to 1975 and has taught courses on food and drug law at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School.

Mr. Paul Young has more than 30 years of manufacturing and processing experience as a senior executive in the food and beverage industry, holding various operating positions with Unilever/Lipton from which he retired in January 1998. Upon his retirement from Unilever/Lipton, Mr. Young operated a consulting business, Paul Young Enterprises, LLC until December 2003. Prior thereto, from January 1997 to January 1998, he served as the Vice President of Safety Health and Environment for Unilever North American Foods, and from August 1990 to January 1997, he was Vice President of Manufacturing & Engineering at Unilever/Lipton. Mr. Young received his B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska.

Mr. Michael H. Maizes is a partner in the law firm Maizes & Maizes LLP that specializes in litigation, personal injury, real estate, estates, entertainment law and other criminal and civil matters. He is also the Senior Vice president, In House Counsel & CFO of SFM Entertainment LLC., a company that packages, creates and distributes television programs and related media. He graduated SUNY at Albany (cum laude) and Wake Forest University School of Law, where he was on the National Moot Court Team. In addition to his law licenses in New York and New Jersey, he also holds licenses as a real estate broker and Life Accident & Health Insurance.