Donald L. ("Skip") Conover

Primary Credentials: 

*  Chairman of real estate development company with business in India and Saudi  Arabia

*  Founded and built two multifaceted international BPO firms with a major presence in India

*  Founded and built international telecommunications and software development company in India

*  Five years in Tokyo managing a subsidiary of an American engineering corporation

*  Extensive worldwide business experience      

*  MBA—The Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at The University of Rochester

*  Attorney--New York and the District of Columbia, JD SUNY at Buffalo

*  The University of Maryland Graduate School, Associate Professor of Finance

*  Five years in the private practice of law 

Representative Accomplishments: 

--Chairman, Bhavana Developers Pvt. Ltd., a commercial real estate development company with numerous projects in Andhra Pradesh and Greater Hyderabad, India, and Saudi Arabia.   

--Founded, organized and built CBay Systems, Ltd., a Delaware Corporation, which has organized 40 vendors of medical transcription in India, Oman and Bhutan during 1998-2006, employing approximately 5,800 medical transcriptionists.  Mr. Conover is recognized as the “Father of the Indian Medical Transcription Industry,” which employs approximately 25,000 people.  He retired from CBay as Vice Chairman.  CBay went public in June 2007 (AIM: CBAY) and purchased 70% of the largest company in its industry for $285 million on August 6, 2008. 

--Founded, organized and built Tiger Communications International, Ltd., an international telecommunications company maintaining the largest private bandwidth between the United States and both India and Pakistan, during 1994-95.  This business supported a 500-employee operation in Madras, India, and a 100-employee operation in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, before the dramatic growth of the commercial Internet.  All of these employees received their daily work through the circuits provided by Tiger Communications.   

--Identified local partners and developed IT enabled businesses in both India and Pakistan between 1994 and 1998.   Developed local training programs to support highly complex operational parameters.  These operations perform services in medical transcription, medical billing, accounting, telemarketing, publishing, legal transcription, and the Internet. 

--Founded, organized and built Transcriptions International, an international medical services firm supporting medical records needs globally (1990-98). 

--Organized totally new engineering subsidiary  serving   four  important Japanese  industries:   automotive;   building  products;  office equipment; and civil engineering.

--Negotiated  paid  automotive design development contracts with three of the four largest  Japanese auto companies. 

--Developed  and implemented  approach for  international selling team that effectively sold civil engineering  projects throughout the Middle East and Southeast Asia. 

Work History: 

BHAVANA DEVELOPERS PVT. LTD., Hyderabad, India

--Chairman of the Board of Directors 

CBAY SYSTEMS, LTD., Annapolis, MD

--Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors 

TIGER COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, LTD., Annapolis, MD

--Founder and Director 

TRANSCRIPTIONS INTERNATIONAL, Annapolis, MD

--Founder, Director & President 

COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS, U.S. House of Representatives

--Professional Staff 

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GRADUATE SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, College Park, MD--Director of Financial Management Program;  Associate Professor;

Director, The Center for the Study of Future Management

SCHLEGEL  ENGINEERING  K.K., Tokyo, JAPAN

--Representative  Director

(Senior Corporate Officer for Japan and Korea)

PRIVATE PRACTICE OF LAW, Rochester, NY 

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RESERVE:  Washington, DC; Quantico, VA; Republic of Vietnam; Rochester, NY; Tokyo, JAPAN

--Awarded Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” for Vietnam Service

--Retired as Lieutenant Colonel