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Leslie B. Daniels
Managing Partner

Les Daniels, based in New York, was a founding partner of CAI in 1989. He was previously President of Burdge, Daniels & Co. Inc., a company engaged as a principal in venture capital and buyout investments, as well as the trading of private placement securities. Mr. Daniels was responsible for financing, overseeing and disposing of investments made on behalf of the Company. Prior to forming Burdge, Daniels, he was a Senior Vice President of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co., having responsibility for the corporate fixed income sales and trading departments.

Mr. Daniels is a former Director of Aster-Cephac SA, IVAX Corporation, MIM Corporation, Mylan Laboratories Inc., NBS Technologies Inc., MIST Inc., Douglas Machine & Tool Co., Inc., and SafeGuard Health Enterprises, Inc. He was also Chairman of Zenith Laboratories, Inc. He currently serves as a Director of Bioanalytical Systems Inc. and AeroSat Corporation, and he is Chairman of TurboCombustor Technology, Inc.

Mr. Daniels has had substantial experience investing as a principal in the health care industry. Over the last twenty years, he has invested in numerous startup, venture capital and buyout transactions in various sectors across the health care spectrum including health maintenance organizations, generic drug companies, pre-clinical and clinical contract research organizations and pharmacy benefit companies. As a result, Mr. Daniels has established a broad base of relationships with people associated with the health care industry from which he receives a steady flow of transaction opportunities.

Mr. Daniels received a B.S. from Fordham University.