Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> July 28, 2003

Ronald Handford – Genemax Corporation (gmxx)

RONALD L. HANDFORD is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of GeneMax Corp. He has over 30 years of international experience in business, finance and leading public and private companies. As founding CEO of GeneMax, he conducted the due diligence review of the GeneMax technology acquisition, negotiated the key license, operating and management contracts, prepared the business plan and arranged the private seed capital with the assistance of the other members of the business team. He is an Engineering graduate from the University of British Columbia with an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. He was previously President and CEO of Ouro Brasil Ltd. and Oro Argentina, mineral exploration companies, from 1996 to 1999. From 1993 to 1996, he was an investment officer at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, in Washington DC. Before that he was a Vice President with Barclays Bank in Toronto, responsible for its structured finance activities in Canada. He is experienced in capital raising as well as in building and administering public and private companies. Profile
TWST: Could we start out with a quick overview of GeneMax?

Mr. Handford: GeneMax is a spinoff from the University of British

Columbia formed four years ago. We went public through a reverse