New Millennium Beef

Information Memorandum

CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT

For Internal Distribution Only 
December, 2000 

This Confidential Information Memorandum ("Memorandum") is based on information provided by the Companies. It is being delivered on their behalf to a limited number of parties to assist them in a preliminary assessment of the New Millennium beef project. 

This Memorandum does not purport to be all-inclusive or to contain all the information that a prospective investor may desire in investigating this opportunity. 

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This Memorandum has been prepared for informational purposes relating to this transaction only and upon the express understanding that it will be used for only the purposes set forth above. None of the Companies makes any express or implied representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained herein or made available in connection with any further investigation of the Operation. Each of the Companies expressly disclaims any and all liability which may be based on such information, errors therein or omissions therefrom. The recipient shall be entitled to rely solely on the representations and warranties made to it in any final placement document. 

In furnishing this Memorandum, the Companies do not undertake any obligation to provide the recipient with access to any additional information. This Memorandum shall not be deemed an indication of the state of affairs of the Companies since the date hereof. 

All communications, inquiries and requests for information relating to these materials should be addressed to the individual listed below, as representative of the Corporation. No other management of the Corporation or Companies should be contacted directly. 
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David P. Michaels
1710 First Avenue,
Suite 333
New York
NY - 10128-4902
USA
Tel: (212) 722-6587
Fax: (212 996-2580
Email:	dpm@designer-beef.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Message from the Founder

What is “New Millennium Beef”?

Business Plan

Strategic Objectives

Operating Unit Objectives

Taking the Initiative

A Fusion of Tradition, Innovation, & Technology

Uruguayan Operations

Management & Advisors

A Message from the Founder
"Focused on the Future"
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•	"Our mission is to offer a real alternative to the current status quo, and deliver a quality product, with consistency, efficiency, and competitive advantage." 

As we enter the 21st Century, our concerns are focused on the many issues of the beef industry. The beef industry today is a totally fragmented industry. The sheer complexity, size, and economics of the beef industry makes management and accountability virtually impossible, resulting in a slow and difficult to navigate mountain of information. In addressing these problems it has become apparent that there is a demand for a restructuring of the industry in the Western Hemisphere. 

There should be no doubts about the value and profit capability of restructuring in the hands of successful and experienced management. There is a world of difference between running a production entity, a processing operation, a distribution company, and a service business, but each is capable of appropriate financial returns. Management of a vertically integrated entity requires a mature understanding of the underlying differences, but firm guidance towards similar successful performance. The overall direction of any business requires the same ability to make proper judgments and to take decisive action.

New Millennium Beef Corporation ("New Millennium Beef" or "NMBC") offers a realistic alternative to the prevailing attitudes within a majority of the industry. It is an entirely new approach to the distribution of "Designer-Beef" across a global network, thus achieving the objectives of society, commercial entities, and governments, who wish to address the different aspects of the issue and their individual concerns and goals. 

New Millennium Beef Corporation will merge the capabilities of experienced cattle producers with proven professionals and global marketing techniques to ensure the reestablishment of beef as the preeminent meat, and the overdue recognition and reward of the important role of the producers. 

There are principally three ways of obtaining revenues from the beef Industry: 
•	Designer Breeding 
•	Processing & Distribution 
•	Management & Operations 
All income streams will be captured by the corporation. 

One of the key areas within NMBC is the "Authentication and Verification" system that controls the quality of production and distribution. In addition, the result of marketing our "Management & Operations" systems, will also act as a quality statement. 

NMBC will be directed along proven lines - a small, high-level team of experienced Executive Directors to guide and monitor carefully selected operating company Chief Executives with authority to act within clear guidelines. The top team will be assisted in its strategic thinking by a number of widely experienced Non-Executive Directors and will be supported by a small, well qualified professional staff at Corporate Headquarters.

New Millennium Beef Corporation's natural and human resources, access to national and regional industry organizations and governmental institutions, combined with the positive political potential reflected by the recent elections in Uruguay and Argentina, creates a “window of opportunity” not only for the industry in general, but for the enlightened investor, in particular. 

"New Millennium Beef" has already attracted significant interest in North and South America, further demonstrating the demand for its unique approach to the delivery of quality product in an organized, time and cost-effective manner. 

NMBC is as unique in concept as any industrial restructuring, and is dedicated to nurture a group of entities into a powerful, diverse and highly profitable corporation.

It is a thrilling challenge to contribute to this new Corporation in its early, formative years and those who are to work with me share my enthusiasm and optimism for what we intend to become - a major international Corporation, ranked among the best. 
David P. Michaels
Cofounder & Interim CEO 
New Millennium Beef Corporation 
"Designed for Consumer Satisfaction"™ 

What is “New Millennium Beef”?

The term “New Millennium Beef” and “Designer-Beef” is used to differentiate this Corporation’s objectives from the current structure of beef production and distribution. 

Initial objectives will include: 
•	The organization of NMBC’s “Designer-Beef” brands and private label marketing and distribution through international strategic alliances.
•	The creation of Management & Operations partnerships with regional qualified producers to create economies of scale with processing and marketing advantages.
•	The out sourcing of processing and packaging to local packing plants. 
NMBC’s strategic alliances and partnerships in production, sales and distribution will create both cost reductions and an equitable participation in the profit potential of other levels in the value chain. New Millennium will not purchase land or ranching operations. Its operations will be on the "Hotel" franchise format, providing management, operations, and marketing to its strategic partners. Management and operational services will also be provided for the real estate funded through an international "time-share" operation. In its simplest form, “New Millennium Beef” is “beef production, operations, and marketing - globalized”. 

To the outside world it will be seen as a “new generation” beef industry, and offer a real alternative to the current myopic mind set of the majority of beef producers and distributors. 

The management of the merged interests will be the prime-movers in redefining the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of beef. 

Research has suggested that one of the major issues within “New Millennium Beef” will be controlling the growth rate of demand. The infrastructure of the corporation is designed to expand alongside the demand levels without eroding its operational abilities. 

It is recognized that “New Millennium Beef” in its global format will be a complex organization, therefore an incremental growth strategy will be implemented. This will enable the value chain within New Millennium Beef Corporation to grow within a sustainable pattern, thus ensuring that demand levels do not saturate the corporation's controlled growth strategy. 

A Western Hemisphere launch of the New Millennium Beef Corporation will be planned and executed during early 2001. 

Business Plan
It is proposed that the breeding and land management capabilities of the Uruguayan operations "(Lanir") be utilized by New Millennium Beef Corporation in the form of an "outsourced" management contract.

Immediately following organization and commencement of commercial operations, NMBC will seek mezzanine funding prior to effecting a placement of its shares within a publicly quoted vehicle. 

The reorganized and fully funded NMBC will establish a simple organizational and management structure designed to provide strong leadership and direction from a small corporate group, with the operational function being performed in the individual divisions by fully qualified professional executives with profit responsibility.

The group will consist of two elements - Direction and Execution. 

Strategic Objectives

The strategic objectives of the corporation falls under three headings:

A. Financial
[ i ] To maximize the return on shareholder's funds and increase the value of their equity;

[i i] to protect the interests of investors, lenders, customers, suppliers, and employees (*see note below this section);

[iii] to develop and grow the group through acquisition and strategic alliances.

B. Structural

[ i ] To build, develop and control an efficient group of companies;

[i i] to recruit, direct, encourage and develop superior management and provide for management succession;

[iii] to operate the group with proper attention to civic and environmental responsibility.

C. Operational
[ i ] To allocate group resources in support of the plans of the operating units;
[i i] to monitor the use of those resources and the results achieved;

[iii] to act, when required, to effect changes in management or operations.
* It is the intention to incorporate an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Program) in all operating divisions and strategic alliances/partnerships. This will be a “first” in the industry in Uruguay and Argentina, and it is projected that its initial setup and carrying costs will be offset by “employee-partner” loyalty and improvements in productivity and efficiency.

Operating Unit Objectives

Detailed business plans for each division/operation can be summarized as follows:
Production 
[ i ] Recruit, reorganize and strengthen management;

[i i] continue the establish of efficient breeding and production operations;

[iii] maintain active R & D programs.

Processing 
[ i ] Determine development priorities, finalize planning, mobilize local staff, and place contracts;

[i i] supervise all aspects of development at each location, maximizing inter-company benefits;

[iii] achieve previously agreed critical paths within agreed financial budgets for each activity;

[iv] create and operate the most cost-effective out-sourcing system in the region;

Marketing 
[ i ] Reevaluate recent advances and set development priorities;

[i i] Review marketing plans and act to achieve maximum market penetration;

[iii] Generate profits from existing products;

[iv] Reexamine and define marketing objectives.

[v] maintain and develop the significance of "New Millennium Beef" and "Designer-Beef" as marketing brands.

Taking the Initiative

The beef industry is becoming a dynamic and technologically advanced business, yet many traditional industry leaders are reluctant to recognize many of the changes, challenges and issues: 

Competition with poultry and pork for the consumer's dollar is fierce, and beef marketers lost ground-some estimate 10% lost market share-during the past decade. 

New product development, consumer-friendly meat cases and creative advertising programs could turn this trend around.

Evolution from pricing system to value system 

A true value-based marketing system can't come soon enough for producers who demand that their extra efforts be rewarded. Progressive producers are rebuilding breeding herds in response to improved genetic selection tools and value-based market incentives. But, for the most part, producers are still price takers, not price makers, and premiums are tough to come by. 

Hit or miss quality target 

Quality became an economic and market driver during the 1990’s, but there is much room for improvement. Food safety and nutrition are top priorities. Consumer desires for convenience and new products have become even more important than price paid. 

Consumer comes first 

Producers must acknowledge and meet the demands of consumers, not their own operations or industry. New attitudes and “outside-the-box” thinking are accepted. Yet we need more positive programs to combat food phobia and to get out the good word on beef nutrition. It's high time cattlemen tag themselves as food producers. 

“We have to earn our right to exist every day, unless we consistently produce products consumers want, they have every opportunity to move over and choose our competitor's products.”

Bill Mies of Texas A&M. 

A Fusion of Tradition, Innovation, & Technology
The traditional beef production management philosophy and ethics passed along the generations will be fused with:

Innovation
•	Designer Breeding systems 
•	Out sourced processing and packing 
•	Marketing & distribution strategic alliances 
•	Management & Operations services 

Technology
•	Quality control technology: 
•	Innovative technology solutions that significantly enhance profit realization through integration and rationalization of the red meat value chain, providing better carcass utilization, higher value products, superior food quality and safety measures. 
•	State-of-the-art "Tenderness Prediction & Evaluation" module demonstrates an unsurpassed level of accuracy, which allows the packer to assess the tenderness of a carcass online and in real time, thus facilitating the marketing of "Certified Tender" premium products. 
•	Web based services to include: 
•	Direct consumer marketing & sales 
•	Technology marketing 
•	Management & Operations licensing 
•	Management education & training: 
•	Corporate 
•	University alliances 
Uruguayan Operations

“Why Uruguay? The Gateway to Mercosur?”

The Uruguayan ranching and beef production operations of Lanir were established in late 1996. 

The present assets, purchased in 1997, include 18,315 hectares of land comprised of three separate working estancias (ranches), approximately 12,000 beef cattle, 400+ horses, equipment in the order of trucks, tractors, farm machinery and one aircraft.

The operating objectives involve the build up of a herd of quality beef cattle. Whilst the economies of South American countries have experienced considerable upheaval over the past eighteen months, this has also created an opportunity for the corporation to meet the future worldwide market demands for quality and healthy beef at competitive prices.

Uruguay, the "Gateway to Mercosur", enjoys open access to world meat markets because of its quality, animal health, and food inspection standards. It is a country that historically enjoys an excellent reputation in the wool and red meat markets of the world. 

Uruguay has a history of political and financial stability unequaled in Latin America, and is experienced in world trade and commerce. The nation is open, free, and welcomes foreign investment capital.

Present beef production in Uruguay lags far behind its potential by any North American comparison. The Corporation is presently in a position to fully apply proven, natural, and economic beef production and forage management technologies in this conducive environment. 

New Millennium Beef Corporation's utilization of world class agricultural technology presents a unique opportunity to maximize Uruguay's renewable natural resources and to market a high quality healthy beef product from a safe protein food source. The high rate of beef consumption in Uruguay and neighboring countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay - the MERCOSUR region) also provides a strong local market for beef products. 

The country's greatest asset, other than its educated populace, is its proven capacity to produce quantities of natural grass and forage of excellent quality, year round. 

Rich with the necessary agricultural resources, a democratic Government, and high internationally accepted animal and human health standards, Uruguay and its immediate neighboring country, Argentina, are now poised to successfully advance into modern twenty first century production systems and technology. 

New Millennium Beef and its strategic partners provide:

•	Valuable leading-edge and proven production technology, global marketing objectives, and an exportable, natural formula, quality meat product. 
•	Internationally recognized extensive range forage management and grazing systems experience. 
•	Internationally recognized intensive forage production experience through cultivation, seed production, and intensive rotational grazing management. 
•	The design of modern, clean, efficient, reliable, drought resistant stock watering systems taking advantage of the incredible natural source of fresh water abundant beneath the surface of the land which is fully capable of minimizing a drought of lengthy duration throughout the entire country. 
•	The development of optimal mineral and nutritional inputs directed at each level of herd management to maximize efficient growth and reproduction of livestock as well as assure a continually naturally renewing soil fertility. 
•	A systematic, proven, and continually expanding commercial seedstock selection, utilization, and market development plan, maximizing breeding efficiencies at all levels of production from conception to consumer. 
•	A globalized view to marketing through established business relationships, contracting, strategic alliances, quality management, and product analysis 
•	Modern management information, and accounting systems at each level. 
•	Human resource management and motivational skills. 
Having achieved an economic balance between forage production and cattle population, the focus of New Millennium Beef will shift more toward intensifying the selection and production of proven hybrid seedstock. 
The ability to produce large numbers of bulls the progeny of which inherently contain the necessary element of predictable performance and meat quality is the major asset and competitive advantage. 

The following areas will be pursued:
Seedstock - New Millennium Beef bulls would be leased or transferred to the Management & Operations division of the Corporation.

Procurement - Progeny resulting from the seedstock would be repurchased, contracted, or joint ventured within operating divisions.

Grower Operation - This progeny, in ever increasing numbers, with known breeding efficiencies, would be grown and backgrounded on intensive forage producing lands by contract or joint venture.

Feedlot - at 400 to 450 kilograms, this progeny would be custom finished at a suitable feedlot by contract or joint venture.

Packers - Hungry for volumes of the “right kind” of finished cattle, and needing defined carcass quality information, should easily be encouraged to contract for out-sourcing this continuous supply of beef in order to be part of an established New Millennium Beef national and international market demanding meat products "Designed for Consumer Satisfaction"™.

Wholesale - Constant volumes of uniform cuts of meat, of uniform quality, produced in a system of low input costs should easily be marketed to the world at large.
The opportunity to accomplish this goal exists in Uruguay and also in Argentina. The extent of large scale agriculture, lends itself to large scale integrated beef systems unequaled in all but a few regions.

Management & Advisors

New Millennium Beef 
Board of Directors

MARSHALL COPITHORNE, Cofounder & Chairman 
Mr. Copithorne is the owner and President of CL Ranches Ltd., established in 1887 in Calgary, Alberta. He is a founding member and current director of Western Feedlots Ltd., a major southern Alberta beef cattle feeding company. He brings a lifetime of experience in beef cattle production and range management techniques. The Canadian ranching operation is complex and vertically integrated from the production of high performance seedstock cattle through to a finished animal to the packing plant. In addition to his agricultural expertise, Mr. Copithorne has considerable business experience and is the Chairman of Startech Energy, an oil and gas company as well as serving as a director of several other public and private companies.

CL Ranches Ltd. owns a ranch land base west of the city of Calgary, and operates as a management company, presently managing a cow/calf operation (1,900 head on a land base of 30,000 acres), a feeder operation (8,000 head), a custom farming operation, and a venture capital operation.

DAVID P. MICHAELS, Cofounder & Interim CEO
David Michaels is the Senior Vice-President of Norman A. Bailey, Inc. and is an advisor to corporations and governmental entities on matters associated with economic restructuring, and the related financial and economic negotiations. 

He is the creator of a number of financial programs for economic restructuring and expansion utilizing sovereign debt instruments, blocked currencies, trade and investment incentives, and has authored papers on international debt, trade, investment, and economic restructuring. Notably, he was the principal proposer of the "International Central Clearing House" for the registration of public and private sector debt instruments, and is credited with anticipating the concepts behind the Brady Plan and the Enterprise for the Americas programs launched by the Bush Administration. 

Mr. Michaels' activities in the MERCOSUR region of South America, the South American Common Market, includes representing and advising US and European companies, including Government entities, on their negotiations with the Public and Private Sectors in the Southern Cone of South America, and he acts as a conduit for multinational corporations requiring access to "Southern Cone" markets. 

He is Founder & Chairman Emeritus of the "Uruguayan American Chamber of Commerce" in the United States, which he co-founded in 1985 with His Excellency, President Dr. Julio Sanguinetti, during the latter's first term as President of the Republic of Uruguay. 

DR. NORMAN A. BAILEY
Dr. Bailey is a consulting economist and President of Norman A. Bailey, Inc. 

He has worked on international economic and strategic issues for over 30 years. His practical experience in a multinational corporation, an investment banking firm, in the White House as President Reagan's Special Assistant, as Senior Director of National Security Planning for the National Security Council of the United States, and as an independent consultant has provided him with an understanding of the needs and perspectives of business and finance with the realities of the governmental decision-making process. 

Dr. Bailey was a principal author of President Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative; served as advisor for international economic policy during President Reagan's election and 1984 reelection campaign; President Bush's 1988 campaign, President-Elect George Bush's 2000 campaign, and is widely quoted on international trade, monetary and financial topics having authored several books and hundreds of articles on international trade, economics and politics. 

He is frequently called upon to testify before Congress and contributes to the policy debates through lectures and publications. 

Dr. Bailey holds the degrees of Master of International Affairs, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa). He is a Board Member of several companies and banks. 

Lanir S. en C. 
Board of Directors
E. KEITH CONRAD 
Chairman of Macon Resources Inc.

Mr. Conrad has 34 years of experience in law and in oil and gas company management. He is currently Chairman of the board of Macon Resources Ltd. (Macon), a private operating company with investments primarily in the oil and gas industry. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Serenpet Inc., a TSE listed oil and gas company. Mr. Conrad was Chairman of J.C. International Ltd., a TSE listed oil and gas company and was responsible for organizing International Colin Energy Corporation, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer until May 1990. He practiced law from 1964 until 1982 after graduating from the University of Alberta. Included in Mr. Conrad's experience are directorships with Quick Fire Venture Capital Corporation (ASE listed) and Framfield Oil & Gas Ltd. (private).

J. GARY IBBOTSON
President and Owner of Farm Business Consultants
President and Owner of Scott Lake Ranch Ltd.
Mr. Ibbotson received his formal education in Ontario, Canada. He is an accomplished businessman, having owned and operated Farm Business Consultants, a national financial management and consulting business, providing comprehensive tax services to the agricultural industry in Canada for over 25 years. In addition to his ranching activities through Scott Lake Ranch, Mr. Ibbotson is a director at Western Feedlots Ltd. He also serves on the Board of Directors of a number of companies, both public and private, and is actively involved in assisting senior management in several high technology ventures.

Scott Lake Ranch Ltd. is a ranch west of Calgary that is operated as a joint venture with the CL Ranch, and is also engaged in various real estate holdings.
RON JACKSON
Founder of TriWest Capital Partners
Former President of Burns Foods Limited.

Mr. Jackson, through his involvement with TriWest Capital Partners, works with mature private companies with the primary goal of enhancing their value. His main involvement is in the areas of financial analysis, operational expertise and strategic input. Prior to founding TriWest, Mr. Jackson was President of Burns Foods Limited, a food processing and distribution company that he and his partner, Mr. Arthur Child, acquired in a leveraged management buyout in 1986. With sales in excess of $1 billion, Burns Foods was involved in meat processing, dairy, food warehousing and distribution, and vegetable processing businesses. Over a 12 year period, Mr. Jackson and his management team built Burns Foods into a leading Canadian food company with over $1 billion in annual sales. Between 1995 and 1997 a majority of the Burns Foods’ subsidiaries were sold generating an exceptional return to the shareholders.

After studying business administration and obtaining his Chartered Accounting degree, Mr. Jackson specialized in corporate income tax, spending one year with Revenue Canada in 1971 during the period of major Income Tax Reform. He joined Burns Foods as Corporate Tax Manager and during his 25 year career with Burns, Mr. Jackson was involved in active operations management, controllership, finance and corporate acquisitions and divestitures. He has extensive experience in strategic and operational planning as well as corporate finance. Mr. Jackson is a member of the Canadian and Alberta Institutes of Chartered Accountants and has served as an officer and director of numerous public and private companies and charitable organizations.

Professional Advisors to New Millennium Beef

ALAN CAPPER (Public Relations) 
A former British journalist, Alan Capper accelerated his international public relations career by selling his company to the Saatchi & Saatchi Group in 1985. After a period as Chairman of European Operations, in 1992 he became Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi's International PR firm, Rowland Worldwide, based in New York. 

In 1995 Alan Capper set up his own agency (now the Spectrum Group) to specialize in providing communications management and advice to senior individuals in the fields of business, politics and entertainment. 

In his approach to business he is an internationalist and has provided PR counsel to companies including IBM, Nokia, 3M, Goldfields, CNN, Mobil, Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Mars, Du Pont, Canon, Yamaha and News International. He was one of the first western public relations consultants to work inside the former Soviet Union, for clients including the 3M company. 

He was the personal media advisor to Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber in Europe for eight years, and has advised individuals and business leaders including Asia's wealthiest woman, Nina Wang and the Presidents and Prime Ministers of countries including the Republic of Yugoslavia, Romania, Nigeria and Pakistan. In 1997 he became the US spokesman for the Sultan of Brunei. 

Politically he helped with the development and launch of the Social Democratic Party in the United Kingdom. He personally led the Rowland Worldwide office to become the most successful agency in Brussels, working for three European Commission departments and developing the Phar Program for the Commission in Eastern. 

He has also worked on a number of election campaigns in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, and Puerto Rico. Mr. Capper has worked extensively with television networks, having handled public relations for the launch of Channel 4 and TV-AM in the United Kingdom and for CNN in Europe, working with Ted Turner and his European management team. He represents WLIW 21 New York and most recently he handled international media for the first United Nations World Television Forum. 

Mr. Capper is a member of the Dean's Council of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, The National Press Club in Washington, and the New York Press Club. He holds an international press card from The International Federation of Journalists. 

WILLIAM R. HALDANE (Human Resources)
William R. Haldane is President and Founder of Haldane Diogenes, an executive recruiting firm in New York. Bill was formerly a Director and Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, based in the New York office, and a member of their International practice. 

Bill’s search activity spans senior management in natural resources, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products, as well as marketing and communications. He has successfully completed assignments at the Chief Executive, Chief Operating, Chief Financial Officer, and Director levels for Fortune 500 companies, and has gained exposure to the business community in North and South America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Consumer clients have included American-Italian Pasta, Colgate-Palmolive, Philip Morris, and Pillsbury, where he put in most of the senior management team. 

Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles in 1992, Bill was an Executive Director of Russell Reynolds Associates. Previously he was in advertising as a Senior Vice President at McCaffrey & McCall and before that at Doyle, Dane, Bernbach, working on P&G, Heinz, and Borden.

Born and raised in Ireland, Bill received Bachelor of Business Studies and Master of Arts degrees from Trinity College, Dublin. He also studied at the College of Law in England, and serves as a Trustee of the University of Dublin Fund. 

MIGUEL AMEGLIO (Beef Industry) 

Miguel Ameglio is a leading industry expert.

From 1976-1990 he was a member of the Board of Frigorifico Canelones and Frigorifico Colonia. He also served as Financial Director, and later as Marketing Director.

In 1978 until 1986 he represented the Uruguayan packing plants on the Board of I.N.A.C., (National Meat Institute).

Since 1991he has been operating Maximeat Ltda., a meat marketing and sales brokerage.

Mr. Ameglio was educated at the British School in Montevideo, and continued his education studying engineering at the University of Montevideo.
T. J. PETERS (Beef Industry)
"TJ" Peters is a recognized designer and developer of livestock breeding programs. 
He is the Founder of The Better Beef Company, an international livestock service and brokerage company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The Better Beef Company is developing carcass and genetic analysis of the Tuli breed (Bos Taurus) of cattle. 
Mr. Peters has focused on developmental genetic research both in Australia, and at the United States Meat Animal Research Center ("MARC") in Nebraska. 
He is the Founder of the North American Tuli Association ("NATA"). 
LUIS ROMERO ALVAREZ (Beef Industry)

Founder and Managing Director of the consulting firm PROFESIONALES SRL (www.profesionalessrl.com), specialized in mergers and acquisitions; formulation and appraisal of investment projects, financial planning and company organization. since 1992, Profesionales SRL has participated in over 100 projects with a total worth of over U$S 150 million.

Luis Romero's appointments and consulting clients have included: 
•	General Director of Agricultural Policy in the Ministry of Cattle, Agriculture and Fishing (1989-1990) 
•	Advisor to the Minister of Economics and Finances (1986-1988) 
•	Ministry of Tourism (1990) 
•	Ministry of Cattle, Agriculture and Fishing, (1994) 
•	Auditor to the Central Bank of Uruguay (1984-1985) 
•	Financial Analyst to Trade Development Bank (1983-1984) 
•	Advisor to FAI (1996-1997) 
•	Inter-American Development Bank (1984-1985) 
•	United Nations (1986) 
•	Food and Agriculture Organization (1987) 
•	World Bank (1988) 
•	Rural Association of Uruguay (1995) 
•	Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Cooperation – IICA (1992) 
•	PLADES (1991) 
•	Citibank (1986-1987) 
•	Banco Comercial (1989) 
•	Chamber of Industry of Uruguay (1990) 
•	Rural Federation (1991). 
He obtained a Master of Arts in Economics, University of Chicago, specializing in agricultural economics and project appraisal, including economic appraisal of environmental impact, 1983. Bach in Agronomy, Universidad de la República O. del Uruguay in cattle and agricultural studies, 1982.
Cr. Romero is the Founder of the Agricultural Supplement of "El Observador" (1993); Director of the radio program "Sarandí Rural" (since 1995); and Coordinator to the agricultural section of the magazine "Cien%" 

Lanir Management
CHERYL COPITHORNE-BARNES, General Manager
Ms. Copithorne-Barnes, aged 32, moved to Uruguay in 1997. She was formerly director and assistant manager of CL Ranches Ltd., Secretary/Treasurer and Manager of Gardner Farming Ltd., a custom farming operation, and General Manager of the CL Ranching cow/calf seedstock operation. She is the eldest daughter of Marshall Copithorne and has spent all her working life gaining hands-on ranching experience.

Ms. Copithorne-Barnes is a graduate of the Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth Texas, Ranch Management Program. 

Ms. Copithorne-Barnes, and her husband Timothy Barnes, have made a long term commitment to the project. She is able to provide the necessary technical expertise and the management of the Uruguayan estancias in accordance with this business plan. Over the past two years, she obtained a working knowledge of Spanish, the local culture, the business mentality, and the administrative complexities of a new country of operations. Additionally, she has acquired the skill necessary to pilot the corporate owned aircraft in order to conduct the business in an extensive manner.

TIMOTHY BARNES, Manager of Operations
Mr. Barnes is 35 years of age and is married to Cheryl Copithorne.

He has been involved in agriculture throughout his life. He is very mechanically inclined and has extensive experience in forage production, animal science, equipment maintenance and general operational strategies. In the past two years, Mr. Barnes has adapted his experience into an agricultural environment unique to the region. His major skills lie in the area of field design matched to forage production and stock water availability. His strength lies in his continuous desire to intensify all area of production thus maximizing the operation's productivity.

Professional Advisors to Lanir 
Dr. Luis Cuenca, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and the leading entity in the field of live embryo transplants in Uruguay.
Jorge Seré Ferber, Import/Export Consultant with the firm of Jaume & Seré, a highly recognized firm involved in international imports and exports of all commodities and products.
Marcello Hourcade, forage specialist educated in Uruguay and Canada with extensive technical knowledge of native and cultivated grass species and their application to modern forage production.

Ing. Pablo Ott, an Uruguayan engineer specializing in hydrology. Ing. Ott received his masters degree in engineering in the United States and is currently developing an intensive watering system at one of the estancias. 

Rick Sears, partner in Sears Ranches and co-owner of Two W Livestock Equipment. Sears Ranches is an operating joint venture with significant ranching and cattle feeding operations in Southern Alberta. Mr. Sears is the General Manager of Two W Livestock Equipment, which manufactures livestock equipment. Two W has manufacturing facilities in Alberta and Argentina. Two W exports its products to several countries throughout the world.

Dr. James Scott, Great Falls, Montana, is a past professor of theriogenology at Colorado State University. He has his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and has designed a working step-by-step operations manual for the seedstock development program underway in Uruguay. Dr. Scott has spent considerable time at each estancia cultivating the local workers into an attitude of change. 

Dr. Juan Carlos Sosa, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and the leading entity in the area of nutrient, macro and micro mineral deficiencies of livestock in Uruguay.

Dr. Eduardo Texeira, an Uruguayan veterinarian responsible for animal health through developing vaccination protocols, research and control methods of all animal diseases and parasites, theriogenology of breeding animals, and fertility.

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