Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> June 10, 2002
PAUL MCCLORY is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Naturol Inc. He
is an international businessman, who has spent most of his career
developing and commercializing new technologies. Based in London, he has
business interests in Europe, USA, Canada, Asia and Africa. He was a
founding shareholder and Director of AMR, now a substantial player in
rare earths in China and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In the
1990s he played a key role in identifying industrial applications for
Kenaf, a fibrous plant now used to produce car parts for Ford's Visitor
Division in Indiana. Mr. McClory is also a Director of Sustainable
Projects Development Group in England which is developing an agro
industrial business in Spain based on the manufacture of bio-composites
using Kenaf and other fiber crops for the auto industry. Mr. McClory
founded Naturol in 1998 to develop alternative, innovative, cost
effective proprietary technologies for the extraction of valuable oils
and bioactive compounds from plants for the pharmaceutical,
nutraceutical, food, flavor and fragrance industries, whose extraction
technology has changed little over the past 100 years. Profile
MICHAEL RAM is Director and Senior VP, Patents, Licensing and Business
Development for Naturol. Dr. Ram has a Bachelor of Science from
Lafayette College, an MS and D.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the New
Jersey Institute of Technology, and an LLB from Seton Hall Law School.
He has had a distinguished international career in the practice of
intellectual property since 1972 and is himself a holder of more than 20
US patents. Dr. Ram was a former partner in the law firm of Arant,
Kleinberg, Lerner & Ram, and former Senior Counsel at Loeb & Loeb and is
currently Senior Counsel to the law firm of Koppel Jacobs, Patrick and
Heybl, specializing in intellectual property and licensing. Prior to
entering private practice Dr. Ram was a Senior Research Engineer at
Celanese Research Company, Patent Counsel and Director of Technical
Research at C.R. Bard, Vice President at R & D Starr Surgical, and
General Counsel at Kabi Pharmacia Opthalmics. Profile
overview of what you are doing at the present time?
Mr. McClory: The background, as all of these stories, is quite
