A. Joseph Rudick

A. JOSEPH RUDICK, JR. MD, has been a Director of Atlantic since May 1999
and is its CEO. He has also been the President of Atlantic and a Founder
of Atlantic and two of its majority-owned subsidiaries, Optex and
Channel, since May 1999. Dr. Rudick served as a business consultant to
Atlantic from January 1997 until November 1998. From June 1994 until
November 1998, Dr. Rudick was a Vice President of Paramount Capital,
Inc., an investment bank specializing in the biotechnology and
biopharmaceutical industries. Since 1988, he has been a Partner of
Associate Ophthalmologists P.C., a private ophthalmology practice
located in New York, and from 1993 to 1998 he served as a Director of
Healthdesk Corporation, a publicly traded medical information company of
which he was a co-founder. Dr. Rudick earned a BA in Chemistry from
Williams College in 1979 and an MD from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1983.