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Mr. Krikorian holds first class honors BSc Chemical Engineering Degree from Manchester University, UK.

After 12 years with Exxon, he formed his own consulting company with two other colleagues, and helped to establish KBC Advanced Technologies as one of the major independent consultancy companies in the downstream oil refining industry. He served on the board of KBC until its floatation on the UK stock market in 1997.

He currently also holds board positions with K2 Restaurant Group LLC, a privately held California based restaurant group, where he is helping to guide them through additional expansion and eventually to franchise status.

Mr. Krikorian also acts as an advisory role to the Orran board, an NGO (non-governmental organization) charity in Armenia as well as being Orran's major benefactor. He has contributed generously to support an organization that has helped thousands of children and elderly to have a better life through the benefits of this charity. He has helped this organization grow exponentially over the last several years and has helped to facilitate millions of dollars in contributions from private and governmental sources.

Krikor has been instrumental in guiding and mentoring the growth progress of OCI over the last two years and is currently acting as the Chairman of OCI board. He provides years of expertise and experience in the international high-end professional technical services consultancy area and as our senior advisor, he will guide OCI to meet its goals over the next few years. Capitalizing on our already positive client recognition, he brings the understanding of global business excellence and a deep commitment to quality, distinction, and financial success.

Mr. Krikorian resides outside of London in England.

Mr. Meghrian is OCI's President and CEO. He has 15 years experience in the technology field including experience in consulting, engineering, administration, design, and training from small business through enterprise levels. Before founding OCI, he was in the consulting side of the business operating an independent consulting company to provide design, engineering, and training expertise to enterprise and corporate clients. In 2002, he and Mr. Martorella founded OCI to perform services and training and services to the corporate world needing IT expertise, guidance and leadership.

In addition to his technical training experience, Mr. Meghrian has also been involved in extensive executive and operations management in the hospitality industry before transitioning into technology. In his previous career he was first in restaurants and hotels before migrating into the IT sector. Having had more than 10 years of operations management experience, Mr. Meghrian was responsible for all areas of business management and operations as well as human resources functions, revenue generation, marketing, and sales for restaurants and major hotel corporations including Peabody, Hyatt, and Hilton hotels. He has been responsible for operations management and was the director of Food and Beverage before moving to the sales office. In sales, Mr. Meghrian was trained by Hyatt Regency Hotel Group in relationship sales, which focused on building new and return customer business through retention and excellence in service.

Jim Wilhelm is Vice President of Operations bringing more than 35 years of successful business practice to OCI. His responsibilities include oversight of OCI’s client relations and consulting operations. He is accountable for the ongoing services operations as well as development and implementation of procedures and systems that provide the maximum productivity in a technical environment across the spectrum of the company’s global operations. Mr. Wilhelm has assisted in developing financial processes and controls, operations management and controls, human resource and compensation policies, and has created and implemented an internal training program and provides the metrics through which to measure operational success.

Mr. Wilhelm ensures the consistent delivery of the industry’s highest levels of customer satisfaction by implementing staff service skills training programs and managing the most proficient engineers and technicians in the information technology business.

Before coming to OCI Mr. Wilhelm co-founded and served as Executive Vice President of TV Interactive in Boca Raton, Florida. Named the largest television production company in South Florida by the South Florida Business Journal, TVI built its reputation on technology programming airing on broadcast and cable television as well as the World Wide Web. Mr. Wilhelm has also served as director of operations for the Santa Fe Railroad as well as working as a business efficiency expert for many years.

Josh Thomas is OCI’s Vice President of Enterprise Technology and has 25 years experience in technical enterprise sales. Josh’s sales and consulting experience greatly compliment the skill set of OCI’s other managers. Mr. Thomas provides a seasoned ability to sell turnkey solutions for larger companies and enterprise level clients.

Mr. Thomas has previously worked in sales with Vector, Data General, and other major U.S. corporations. He provides a bridge and balance between direct hardware sales as well as turnkey solutions.

Mario Martorella is OCI’s Vice President of Training. Mr. Martorella has over 20 years of experience in electronics, technology training, and consulting. Prior to founding OCI, he was a director in another major training company based in south Florida. Previously, Mr. Martorella was a trainer and independent technical consultant for clients like Royal Caribbean cruise lines, Florida Atlantic university, FBI, AmCOMP, University of Miami, Barry University, Daily Management, the Art Group (UK) and others both domestic and abroad. He has done extensive work for Dell Corporation on a global level and has advised solutions for Dell customers around the globe. In addition, Mr. Martorella has done extensive work with Dell internal employees surrounding product training and consulting functions.

He has extensive experience with VMware, Citrix, Network Operating Systems, SQL, Exchange and most of the current and legacy platforms and technologies. In addition to his technical competencies, Mr. Martorella is exceptionally talented at building client relationships, learning about client challenges and recommending solutions that involve further use of technology services that has afforded him the position of "trusted advisor" to many of the organizations he has worked with both directly and indirectly. He is an OCI founder and has been a large contributor in building OCI into the organization it is today.