http://www.wallstreetreporter.com Profitable investing ideas Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:44:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 © jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com () jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com() 1440 Just another WordPress weblog jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com No no http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.wallstreetreporter.com 144 144 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/noront-resources-tsx-vnot-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/noront-resources-tsx-vnot-ceo-interview/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:37:32 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=9496 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/noront-resources-tsx-vnot-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 13:14 Noront Resources (TSX.V:NOT) CEO: Wesley Hanson Noront Resources (TSX.V:NOT) CEO: Wesley Hanson CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/cornerstone-capital-resources-tsx-vcgp-ceo-interview-2/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/cornerstone-capital-resources-tsx-vcgp-ceo-interview-2/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:49:23 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=9461 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/cornerstone-capital-resources-tsx-vcgp-ceo-interview-2/feed/ 0 21:13 Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX.V:CGP) CEO: Brooke MacDonald Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX.V:CGP) CEO: Brooke MacDonald CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/angkor-gold-corp-tsx-vank-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/angkor-gold-corp-tsx-vank-ceo-interview/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:00:13 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=9402 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2012/01/angkor-gold-corp-tsx-vank-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 11:16 Angkor Gold Corp (TSX.V:ANK) CEO: Mike Weeks Angkor Gold Corp (TSX.V:ANK) CEO: Mike Weeks CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/princeton-security-technology-otcbbpsgy-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/princeton-security-technology-otcbbpsgy-ceo-interview/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:49:49 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=9171 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/princeton-security-technology-otcbbpsgy-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 12:19 Princeton Security Technology (OTCBB:PSGY) CEO: Juhani Taskinen Interview Transcripts: Juan: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street Reporter, and ... Princeton Security Technology (OTCBB:PSGY) CEO: Juhani Taskinen Interview Transcripts: Juan: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street Reporter, and joining us today is Juhani Taskinen, the CEO for Princeton Security Technology. The company trades on the Bulletin Board and their ticker symbol is PSGY. They are a supplier of x-ray and gamma ray detectors. Thanks for joining us today, Juhani. Juhani: Thank you for the opportunity, Juan. Juan: Great! Now starting off, talk about--you issued your preliminary Q3 results. What were some of the drivers there? Juhani: Yes. I would go back a little bit last year. About mid last year, 2010, we basically--we had our issues and we were able to turn the company profitable because of the changes in the basic business we made. We got more focused and now the past 5 quarters, you can see that we've been posting profitable results every quarter and you can also see the growth. So we have had profitable growth. That is our basically our key--I would say that's our focus. What we've been doing here, we've been just generating more sales with our basic products. We have more customers. We have more distributors, reps and we've been selling our equipment and products more both domestic and international. Juan: Well, great! What are some of the trends right now as far as PGT Technology and how well positioned is the company to capitalize on them? Juhani: At this moment we are very competitive in radio isotope identifier field because our product technology-wise, is very good and, of course, pricing-wise, we are very competitive. We've been able to increase our sales and sales effort in this field globally and that has really helped us a lot this year and also we hope that will help next year as well. Juan: Great. So what are some of the markets into which the company--who are some of your client and where can we find your products? Juhani: We have basically 2 types of customers. The first one and the biggest one is the entities/clients within the homeland security market and we've been focusing equipment for the homeland security meaning first responders, customs, DOE customers, US military, etc. So we've been very well positioned-- we are very well positioned within these types of customers. The second customer segment is there was a nuclear crisis in Japan and that there needs to be monitoring of radioactive isotopes in that area and that's been going in the last--I would say the last 6 months as well so we basically have kind of radiations/nuclear power type of customers. Juan: What would you say are some of the factors that makes Princeton unique from some of the other players in the sector? Juhani: I would say that we really do have a good research and development. We put enough money--I donrsquo;t know if you can say enough but whatever resources we have, we invest in our RD meaning we will get new products and we only have about, I think, 17 employees right now. We have really good employees here in Princeton and this focus sector where we are in, we know what wersquo;re doing and customer base, our clients, they know us so we will have repeated customers. That's where our sales go. We donrsquo;t have to look for the new customers for every single order. However, of course we do. But we have repeated customers coming back so it means we have brand name recognition within the industry. Juan: Great! So perhaps you could walk us through you background and experience, Juhani, and talk a little bit about the management there. Juhani: I have a background in electronics or communication business. I used to run a division within Nokia Corporation where we had global sales research and development, manufacturing, etc. I had some financial institution background thereafter as well. Irsquo;ve been with smaller technology companies and it almost seems like every single compan... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/allana-potash-corp-tsxvaaaotcqxallrf-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/allana-potash-corp-tsxvaaaotcqxallrf-ceo-interview/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:37:21 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=9072 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/allana-potash-corp-tsxvaaaotcqxallrf-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 19:27 Allana Potash Corp (TSXV:AAA) (OTCQX:ALLRF) CEO: Farhad Abasov Interview Transcripts: WSR: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Castillo, senior analyst at the Wall Street reporter and ... Allana Potash Corp (TSXV:AAA) (OTCQX:ALLRF) CEO: Farhad Abasov Interview Transcripts: WSR: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Castillo, senior analyst at the Wall Street reporter and joining us today is Farhad Abasov, the CEO for Allana Potash. The company trades on the, now trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Ticker symbol is AAA and on the OTCQX ticker symbol is ALLRF. Thanks for joining us today there Farhad. Farhad: Thank you, Juan. WSR: Great. Now starting off, talk about the recent, bring us up the speed on your Ethiopian play for Potash. Farhad: Yeah, sure. We went up two projects in Allana, both Potash projects. One is in Ethiopia, the other one is on Argentina. The Ethiopian project is the one that wersquo;ve been focusing on in the last couple of years and we started about two years ago with the drill program and then we followed up with 2D Seismic Program and Downhole Seismic Program and we finished the drilling of the western part of the property about three months ago and wersquo;ve updated our 43-101 technical report at that time and now we have about almost 673 million tons we have measured that indicated that resource and other almost 600 million tons of inferred resource. They have very good grade and with very good thicknesses and all of these is on the 40% of the project. We continued drilling on the east. In order words, the remaining part of the project. And also wersquo;ve launched recently feasibility study and you might have seen the news recently that wersquo;ve also engaged at one of the largest international banks, BNP Paribas out of Paris to spearhead or debt finance, our project financing efforts. WSR: Excellent. So, talk about the significance of being the only Ethiopian, the first company with Ethiopian asset to be listed on the TSX. Farhad: Look Ethiopia is a very unique country. This country I think is one of the few African country that has been independent for many centuries, has incredible history. The country has gone through a very turbulent period in its history but in the last several years has been quite stable and as part of that stability program, quite a few mining companies including Allana Potash has entered the country. It is very important to have very strong relations with the government and I must say that the government has been extremely supportive to other projects. Wersquo;ve been educating the market, down at the Ethiopian Potash space in the last two years and I think wersquo;ve made a tremendous progress. A lot of institutional and retail investors are well familiar with the story and they were also well familiar with the advantages that this particular Potash [Indiscernible][ 0:03:17.6] mainly shallow Potash, dry and hot climate that makes them able to [Indiscernible][ 0:03:24.0] operation processes and of course the proximity to largest Potash consuming nation such as India and China. WSR: Great and so what are some of the other trends in the sector right now and how opposition is the company to capitalize on them. Farhad: Itrsquo;s a very interesting sector. I mean, itrsquo;s not large by any means compared to letrsquo;s say other parts of mining industry or energy but it is unique that 65 to 70 % of supply comes from basically three countries. They are Canada, Russia and Belarus. And Canadian companies have joined an overseas marketing organization for those three companies. And then the two Russian companies and one Belarusian company have their own overseas marketing arm that sells to the rest of the world. So, these two organizations have been controlling basically the supply plus the price. The major buyers are of course the largest countries in the world such as India and China, Brazil and basically everyone else is a Potash buyer. Trying to import a lot of Potash, up to eight million tons a year to have their little Potash production of their own. India, I think, has been importing about six and a half million tons a year an... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/canadian-oil-recovery-remediation-enterprises-ltd-tsxvcvrotcqxcrvyf-management-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/canadian-oil-recovery-remediation-enterprises-ltd-tsxvcvrotcqxcrvyf-management-interview/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:59:56 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=9032 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/10/canadian-oil-recovery-remediation-enterprises-ltd-tsxvcvrotcqxcrvyf-management-interview/feed/ 0 19:46 Canadian Oil Recovery Remediation Enterprises Ltd (TSXV:CVR) (OTCQX:CRVYF) CFO: Alex Gress Interview Transcripts: JUAN COSTELLO: Good day from Wallstreet. This is Juan Costello, Senior Analyst at the ... Canadian Oil Recovery Remediation Enterprises Ltd (TSXV:CVR) (OTCQX:CRVYF) CFO: Alex Gress Interview Transcripts: JUAN COSTELLO: Good day from Wallstreet. This is Juan Costello, Senior Analyst at the Wallstreet Reporter. Joining us today is Alex Gress, the chief financial officer for Canadian Oil Recovery and Remediation Enterprises Ltd., otherwise known as CORRE. The company trades on TSX venture and their Ticker symbol is CVR and on the OTCQX, ticker symbol is CRVYF. Thanks for joining us today Alex. ALEX GRESS: Thanks Juan. Thanks for having us back on. JUAN COSTELLO: Great, always good to have you on. Now starting off CORRE has continued to develop operationally since our last interview in December, can you offer some further insight into these developments? ALEX GRESS: Sure. This December, as the company continued to put in place, the operating infrastructure to successfully access the scale and the value of the contracts that wersquo;re currently and actively competing for. Now Juan, therersquo;s two parts to that. First, CORRE is now prequalified under three separate service lines. Now since we spoke last, we picked up an additional prequalification in Kuwait for the Kuwait Oil Company for the treatment of drill cuttings. So now wersquo;re prequalified for soil remediation, where wersquo;re actively bidding right now, waste management, and now the third one which is for the treatment of drill cuttings. Thatrsquo;s important for a couple of reasons; that wersquo;ve accessed these pre-qualifications through our operating partnership with SAR, which is a leading total oil waste management company out of Norway, and therersquo;s value in that for CORRE for a couple of reasons. First, through this we are now a total oil waste management provider for the Kuwait Oil Company, and being pre-qualified in general is important. First, theyrsquo;re obviously a validator of who you are as a company and their technologies; and then secondly, as an approved contractor, you are then on the short list of companies that are invited to bid for the contracts that are coming out in these different service areas. The value in having that position in Kuwait is important because we can leverage that now into other countries including Saudi Arabia, which I think wersquo;ll talk a little bit more about as well. When you think about the Middle East and the Middle East-North Africa region, you are looking at about $96 billion in contracts in environmental services coming out over the next couple of years and growing. Specifically, you are looking at two markets that wersquo;re focused on. First is Kuwait. Kuwait is increasing its oil production to over 4 million barrels per day coming up over the next couple of years. This represents 7 percent of the worldrsquo;s oil reserves; and secondly, Saudi Arabia, which holds 18 percent of the worldrsquo;s oil reserve. So these markets represent a growing and long-term need for total oil waste management providers, so the prequalification is kind of step one in being an active contract provider. The second thing, which I will comment on, especially important given whatrsquo;s happening in the market these days and the volatility wersquo;re seeing, is capital or financing. What I would say here is that, since we last spoke in December, CORRE has continued to be very well capitalized and the volatility in the capital market are not impacting us or delaying the contracts coming out of the Gulf region in the Middle East. There are a couple of reasons for that. From a CORRE perspective that is, at least. First, this past June our largest institutional shareholder that we call NAT or NAT for short, they had owned 20 percent of CORRE. Then in June, they executed another $4.25 million of Warren at $0.20 per share providing additional capital. Before, additionally wersquo;ve raised another $1.4 million approximately in private placements. So, thatrsquo;s brought us sinc... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/metanor-resources-tsxvmto-management-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/metanor-resources-tsxvmto-management-interview/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:49:05 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=9001 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/metanor-resources-tsxvmto-management-interview/feed/ 0 24:57 Metanor Resources (TSXV:MTO) (OTC:MEAOF) VP: Ronald Perry Metanor Resources (TSXV:MTO) (OTC:MEAOF) VP: Ronald Perry CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/tintina-resources-tsxvtauotcqxtintf-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/tintina-resources-tsxvtauotcqxtintf-ceo-interview/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:54:27 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8879 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/tintina-resources-tsxvtauotcqxtintf-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 24:27 Tintina Resources (TSXV:TAU) (OTCQX:TINTF) CEO and Pres: Louis Lepry Interview transcripts: Interviewer: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street Reporter ... Tintina Resources (TSXV:TAU) (OTCQX:TINTF) CEO and Pres: Louis Lepry Interview transcripts: Interviewer: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street Reporter and joining us today is Louis Lepry, the CEO and President for Tintina Resources. The company trades on TSX Venture. Their ticker symbol is TAU, as well as on the OTCQX - ticker symbol TINTF. Thanks for joining us today, Louis. Interviewee: My pleasure, Juan. Interviewer: Great! Starting off, give us an update on the Sheep Creek property which you recently appointed a new project manager for. Interviewee: That's right. We were lucky enough to find a fellow thatrsquo;s just perfectly positioned to take this emerging, growing high-grade copper project in central Montana right through all the steps required to actually ribbon cut the mine. Bob Jacko joined us a month ago and hersquo;s already more than just hit the ground running, and we made a lot of other smaller outfits jealous by grabbing this guy. Therersquo;s just a few of them around; an individual with 30 yearsrsquo; experience, underground experience, mine building experience, works well with the permitting agencies, all that sort of thing. He really does tick all the boxes and wersquo;re tickled to have him. Interviewer: Well, good. So give us a little bit more overview on the Sheep Creek property in central Montana - a copper-cobalt-silver project. Interviewee: Tintina acquired the property in 2010. It's been around quite a long time, about 30 years since discovery. The last 15 years, from lsquo;95 to 2010, the property lay dormant; the reason for that being it's located on private ranchland where the ranchers own both surface and mineral rights. They had leased their mineral rights out in the lsquo;80s when the discovery was made by Cominco, but in rsquo;95, when Cominco turned the property back (and there were lots of reasons for that: they were predominantly a zinc company, copper was at $0.80/lb, they had spent 15 years exploring with a small program, etc.) it just sat. Anyways, the ranchers elected not to deal with any of the groups that came long behind them, and it wasnrsquo;t until our fellow, in 2010, came back to this area (he had worked for Cominco on this project) that headway was made. Hersquo;d done his master's thesis field work at this project area. The key was that this geologist, Jerry Zieg, now our VP - Exploration, is a local boy. He grew up in White Sulphur Springs, only 17 miles from the project. The ranchers recognized him immediately and embraced him and we resuscitated the old leases and we got rolling again. It's really - if a book is ever written - chapter 2 will be about Jerry Zieg and his unique contribution to this project. The project itself is pretty exciting. It was really all teed up by the previous workers. We came into the project with a 100 drill-hole database and the core was preserved. We've drilled almost 100 holes since then (in the past year) and what wersquo;re finding out is that there are at least six zones of high-grade copper mineralization. All look like underground mining candidates. All have byproduct cobalt and silver, tend to cluster along a two-mile strike length, and all require delineation drilling. The discovery chapter of this property, at least for this first handful of zones, had been completed, was in the books before we arrived. So the 100 holes that we've drilled, or will be drilling by November, represent delineation holes, not exploration holes. We've been able to find copper on this property for a penny per pound in the ground, a phenomenal rate in our business, and these aren't just any old pounds. This is not a low-grade porphyry situation with the big $2-, $3- or $4 billion capital cost hanging over its head. This is a situation where a company of Tintina's size can envision getting this thing all the way to production. Capital cost estimates range from $... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/canamex-resources-tsxvcsq-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/canamex-resources-tsxvcsq-ceo-interview/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:28:21 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8979 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/canamex-resources-tsxvcsq-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 10:58 Canamex Resources (TSXV:CSQ) CEO: Greg Hahn Interview Transcripts: JUAN COSTELLO: Good day from Wallstreet, This is Juan Costello, Senior Analyst with the Wallstreet Reporter and joining us today ... Canamex Resources (TSXV:CSQ) CEO: Greg Hahn Interview Transcripts: JUAN COSTELLO: Good day from Wallstreet, This is Juan Costello, Senior Analyst with the Wallstreet Reporter and joining us today is Greg Hahn, the CEO for Canamex Resources. The company trades on a TSX venture and their ticker symbol is CSQ. Thanks for joining us today Greg. GREG HAHN: Well, thanks for the opportunity to meet with you today. JUAN COSTELLO: Certainly. Now starting off, give us an update on your Aranka North project and which you commence the stream sediment and sampling. GREG HAHN: Okay. Well let me back up a bit by saying that Canamex is a recently established company and earlier this year we decided to seek a strategic land position in the country of Guyana because there were some amazing gold discoveries being made in Guyana and we felt it was very early stages to get in and establish a prominent land position on what we perceived to be an excellent gold trend. So we did that through the middle of the year and just concluded our acquisition of the Aranka North property on August. Since August we've concluded some aerial geophysics which has identified over 15 quality and large geophysical targets which we've announced two or three week ago. And then following up on that airborne geophysical data, we have announced the commencement of stream sediment geochemical sampling to follow the source of alluvial gold that is present on the property up towards the head waters of the drainages where we believe the gold is coming from, and where the geophysical anomalies are located. JUAN COSTELLO: You also completed a geophysical survey earlier in the month? GREG HAHN: Yes, we completed the analysis of the geophysical survey back in late August, early September and then launched into the stream sediment sampling program to follow up on that commencing this week. JUAN COSTELLO: Great and you also have a play out in Nevada: Bruner? GREG HAHN: We do. One of the things that attracted me to joining Canamex was the presence of the Bruner property, which is located in Central Nevada on the intersection of two structural trends which both hosts multi-million ounce gold deposits. And we believe that Bruner has the earmarks of a substantial gold deposit. How large, we really can't say other than in 1993, Miramar Mining Company, which was subsequently acquired by Newmont, published a press release that indicated the presence of 385,000 ounces of gold on the property. Now that's not currently compliant with the regulatory reporting requirements but it's our intention to drill the deposit this fall and throughout next year in order to bring the database up to the standards required for current reporting requirement. Then that will allow us to generate a resource report in compliance with Canadian reporting standards of the contained ounces of gold there. JUAN COSTELLO: Certainly. So yeah, talk a little bit about some of the trends right now in your sector and how will position Canamex is to capitalize on them? GREG HAHN: Well, obviously gold has been on a tear this year. Itrsquo;s come off a bit here in the last week or so, but prior to this correction gold is up $500 for the year, which was up about 35 percent. Itrsquo;s come off about half of that, so it's still up pushing 20 percent for the year. The gold equity companies have not followed suit and generally they drag or tail a little bit behind gold itself, so we would expect the sentiment and the gold equities to pick up as gold continues to pull prices continue to rise. Also, junior gold companies are valued at some very standard metrics. One is roughly $50 per ounce of gold in the ground and another metric would be $100 per ounce of gold contained in measured and indicated resources. And so our objective in getting the Bruner resource into a regular, the right compliant reporting status would allow us to capture that value in the market place. JUAN COSTELLO: C... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/woulfe-mining-tsxvwofotcqxwfemf-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/woulfe-mining-tsxvwofotcqxwfemf-ceo-interview/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:17:15 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8947 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/woulfe-mining-tsxvwofotcqxwfemf-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 18:09 Woulfe Mining (TSXV:WOF) (OTCQX:WFEMF) CEO and President: Brian Wesson Woulfe Mining (TSXV:WOF) (OTCQX:WFEMF) CEO and President: Brian Wesson CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/stemcells-inc-nasdaqstem-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/stemcells-inc-nasdaqstem-ceo-interview/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:39:49 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8916 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/stemcells-inc-nasdaqstem-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 26:27 StemCells, Inc (NASDAQ:STEM) CEO: Martin McGlynn Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from WallStreet, this is Juan Costello, Senior Analyst at the Wall Street reporter. Joining ... StemCells, Inc (NASDAQ:STEM) CEO: Martin McGlynn Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from WallStreet, this is Juan Costello, Senior Analyst at the Wall Street reporter. Joining us today is Martin McGlynn, the CEO for StemCells Incorporated. The company trades on NASDAQ and the ticker symbol is STEM. Thanks for joining us today Martin. Martin McGlynn: Happy to be here Juan. Good morning. Juan Costello: Good morning. Now, starting off. Bring us of a speed on the recent announcement about the neural stem cell transplant on the spinal cord injury patient. Martin McGlynn: Sure. Well wersquo;ve just announced that we have successfully transplanted the first spinal cord injury patient at Balgrist Hospital in Zurich Switzerland. Which is one of the worldrsquo;s largest for injury and rehabilitation. We initiated the study at in March, earlier of this year. This study was approved by Swiss Medic in the University of Zurich of which the Balgrist Hospital is affiliated. 12 patient study with Thoracic injuries, Thoracic being in the chest area from T1 to T12 vertebrae. The unique attributes of this trial is that we are recruiting individuals who have reached what is described as the chronic stage of the injury. It is not immediately after the injury which is a very very difficult environment itself but approximately 3 months post injury and up to 12 months post injury. We are seeking to enroll patients who have probably considered the most in this or the most severe complete injury and theyrsquo;ve essentially no more motor function below the injury. These are referred to as [Phonetic] [0:02:22] A subject. So as soon as we complete dosing on the first 3 subjects of the complete injury wersquo;ll move on and enroll another group of patients who are less severely injured called the Age of Brsquo;s and wersquo;ll complete the study with enrolling the, or are referred to as the Age of C patients who have less severe injuries that either the A or B cohorts. Our intention here is to transplant a significant into the spinal cord of these patients. When I say significant, wersquo;re talking about up to 20 million cells for each procedure. So itrsquo;s a very exciting study, wersquo;re looking to first of all and foremost as retain the safety elements of surgery, the cells and the immune suppression and wersquo;re looking for evidence of biological activity of the cells. Wersquo;re looking for evidence of advocacy and the end points that we will be looking for would be improved sensation, some restoration or evidence of improved motor function as well as restoration or improvement in vowel and bladder function. So this is a very exciting study, itrsquo;s the first time that anyone has planted neural stem cells into the spinal cord of a patient so itrsquo;s really a breakthrough for the company and quite frankly itrsquo;s a very exciting development for patients who have chronic spinal cord injury. Juan Costello: Certainly. And so yeah, in regards to HU CNS HC which is the main platform. Describe to us you know, what it is regarding, you know, Purified Neural Stem Cells and some of the other applications. Martin McGlynn: Sure. Sure. So what it is not, it is not an embryonic derived stem cell. It is what described as a tissue derived or adult stem cell. It is a highly purified population of neural stem cells, the cells are not genetically modified in any way and they do not give rise for tumors. Theyrsquo;re essentially, because they come from brain tissue, they are lineage restricted form neuron astrocytes [Phonetic] [0:05:05] which are the main cast of characters if you will in the cellular world in the central nervous system and we have done an incredible amount of work over the years to demonstrate that these cells or robustly in graft in various animal models and that they also migrate robustly in the both, in various animal models and [Phonetic] [0:05:32] s... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/gilat-satellite-networks-nasdaqgilt-management-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/gilat-satellite-networks-nasdaqgilt-management-interview/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:08:47 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8898 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/gilat-satellite-networks-nasdaqgilt-management-interview/feed/ 0 24:25 Gilat Satellite Networks (NASDAQ:GILT) CFO: Ari Krashin Glenn Katz Pres COO (Spacenet) Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at ... Gilat Satellite Networks (NASDAQ:GILT) CFO: Ari Krashin Glenn Katz Pres COO (Spacenet) Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street Reporter and joining us today is Ari Krashin, the CFO for Gilat Satellite Networks along with Glenn Katz, the president and COO of the companyrsquo;s subsidiary Spacenet. And the company trades on NASDAQ, Ticker Symbol is GILT. Thanks for joining us today there gentleman. Glenn Katz: Thank you. Ari Krashin: Good morning. Glenn Katz: Good Morning, yes. Juan Costello: Great. Now, starting off can you tell us about the recent contract extension for Spacenet. Glenn Katz: Yeah, sure. This is Glenn, I can address that question. Pretty important contract for our company, the customer is a longtime customer of ours. They are a growing, large retailer here in United States and what is nice and unique about this opportunity is that it hits all the strategic areas that Spacenet is expanding its business here in the U.S. Itrsquo;s a satellite based business continuity application supporting multi cast as well as a full managed network service utilizing satellite connectivity. It is an extension of five years to an existing contract which still had two years left to it. So, in essence we have a seven year contract with this large retailer. I think it speaks very well to the partnership that wersquo;ve had with them and the service levels that we have provided them over the last seven or eight years. Juan Costello: Well, great. And so can you talk a little bit more about, you know, what Spacenet does in regards to converged voice and data application services? Glenn Katz: Spacenet is a full service broadband manage network service provider. And we basically serve two major markets here in the U.S. The first and largest is the enterprise market, second is a growing market for us; the civilian government public safety sector as well as the industrial oil and gas sector. What we provide to companies or agencies in these sectors is an agnostic approach to their telecommunication needs. We can provide satellite services or broadband services, any combination of satellite and broadband services, and wersquo;ll fully integrate those services, delivering connectivity and managing that network for the particular customer. Some of those services include security, PCI compliance, and any services of that nature that an enterprise or a governing entity requires to keep the mission or applications running and growing as the bandwidth needs increase overtime. Now, there is one point here, Spacenet moved strategically into this area in a big way the last year or so and part of that strategic move was an acquisition to help fill some of the gaps that we had allowing us to provide broadband services other than satellite which historically has been the services that we have provided here in the U.S. for over 30 years. And with that, we acquired a Virginia based company; called CICAT Network. CICAT Networks is a company that provides broadband services of all types as well as billing, provisioning and helpdesk services. So, that acquisition along with Spacenetrsquo;s 30 years of managed network services in satellite based networks completed our portfolio to allow us to move in a very large way into a much bigger market than we have been in the last few years. This market is called the managed network service or managed VPN market. Juan Costello: Well, great. And, so in terms of Gilat and the sky edge platform can you guys bring up the speed on the ndash; some of the recent contract including the education program? Glenn Katz: Yes, absolutely. First of all I would like to clarify. Spacenet, as you mentioned earlier, is a 100 percent owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks and Gilat Networks is an international company, that overall has three main areas that it provides services to. The first is ... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/reva-medical-asxrva-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/reva-medical-asxrva-ceo-interview/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:25:24 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8830 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/09/reva-medical-asxrva-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 21:03 REVA Medical (ASX:RVA) CEO and Chairman: Bob Stockman Interview Transcripts: Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street Reporter ... REVA Medical (ASX:RVA) CEO and Chairman: Bob Stockman Interview Transcripts: Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street Reporter and joining us today is Bob Stockman, CEO and chairman for REVA Medical. The company trades on the Australian Stock Exchange, Ticker Symbol is RVA.AX. Thanks for joining us today Bob. Bob Stockman: Thank you Juan. Juan Costello: Great. Now, starting out, give us a brief overview and history of REVA for some of our listeners here that may be new to your story. Bob Stockman: Certainly. REVA stands for Restoring Vascular Function; REVA has developed a proprietary and revolutionary plastic Stent for the heartlsquo;s coronary arteries that does its job and then safely dissolves. We believe this is going to change our lives, as arterial disease of the heart is the largest killer of people. It accounted for 29 percent of all global deaths in 2004 according to WHO and of that 29 percent the large majority of cardiac death results from coronary artery disease, which is a common incident of blockages that form in the three main arteries that feed the heart muscle. The safety benefits of the REVA Stent that are to be borne out in clinical trials I think will help our company capture much of the $5 billon worldwide market of Stents that are sold each year. Because metal Stents are permanently in the heart, they have drawbacks. One of those drawbacks is that metal Stents have been shown to have late forming blood clots or ldquo;thrombosesrdquo;. While a small percent of people develop theseclots when you consider that over 50 million people have metallic Stents that can be a considerable issue and it is; and thatrsquo;s an expensive problem because people have to take drugs to combat that blood clot risk. The other advantage of a Stent that goes away is that it restores a vessel to its natural contractility, meaning that the vessel once the Stent is gone can expand and contract naturally like the heart muscle, without a rigid metallic cage. And it is believed that the elimination of rigid metal tubes in our heartrsquo;s arteries will lessen turbulence and other factors downstream from the stented areas that should make the heart healthier. Our Stent has proven to be safe in animal tests and a human trial that we did in 2007 with a first generation version. So, we are moving ahead with broad clinical trials to gain necessary regulatory approvals, ultimately in all world markets, and our first trial is right upon us. Investors in our IPO - in summary - have the opportunity, excuse me, investors from our IPO and in our stock today ndash; have the opportunity I believe to make considerable profits. The money first of all that we raised in our IPO in Australia in December 2010 should be sufficient for us to gain market approvals first in Europe that should allow REVA to generate substantial sales and profits; then as we broaden the product out into other markets and ultimately to the United States, we hope that REVArsquo;s market share of stents and resultant sales and profits will be reflected in the valuation of this company. So, in a nutshell, we are presenting investors with an opportunity to be part of an idea that was launched when Stents were conceived almost 25 years ago. They were intended to dissolve and go away but manufacturers had difficulty making plastic Stents that could safely and effectively be delivered into the heartrsquo;s tiny arteries without blocking them, and in materials that didnrsquo;t create an inflammatory response. REVA has overcome these technical and clinical challenges with our ReZolve stent. So while the original large manufacturers of stents defaulted to stainless steel devices, we think this is not an ideal solution and that a design of ours and made up of a material that is biocompatible that is cleared safely from the heart will be a very significant improvement in the treatment of... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/biolargo-inc-otcbbblgo-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/biolargo-inc-otcbbblgo-ceo-interview/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:19:51 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8527 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/biolargo-inc-otcbbblgo-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 21:15 BioLargo, Inc (OTCBB:BLGO) President: Dennis Calvert INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst with the Wall Street Reporter and joining ... BioLargo, Inc (OTCBB:BLGO) President: Dennis Calvert INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst with the Wall Street Reporter and joining us today is Dennis Calvert, the president for BioLargo incorporated. The company trades on the Bulletin Board and their ticker symbol is BLGO. Thanks for joining us today, Dennis. Dennis Calvert: Thank you, Juan. It is my pleasure. Juan Costello: Great, good to have you back on. Now, starting off, talk about your main platform technologies, which are both iodine related and include Odor-No-More. Dennis Calvert: Yeah, sure, thanks Juan. Our inventor and started work together in 2004, and he had made a number of discoveries and filed the first couple of patents. Since then, wersquo;ve filed about 23 or 24 patents. We have received two more issue patents, a number of international filing, and all the intellectual property is focused on the precision generation of the molecule, the free iodine molecule I-2, the same molecule found in nature, part of the rain cycle. It is part of, , earthrsquo;s natural disinfectant, a disinfectant to cleanse the earth. And so, Ken made the discovery that we could chemically generate and isolate the I-2 molecule through the reaction of micronutrient salts, basically, all GRAS, (Generally Recognized As Safe), and these components are the stuff of food and that we can react them with H2O and then, isolate the I-2 molecule so that the molecule can be put into products so that they feature what the free iodine molecule can do, which is namely three things, odor-moisture, disinfection and contaminated water. So, as you can imagine those are some pretty broad categories, odor and moisture control, disinfection and contaminated water. Basically, those applications touch most industries in the world and so the trick has always been for us to identify which of those we can get to market first. We started first in the odor and moisture, because it is the lower barrier to entry and wersquo;re now highly-highly focused on disinfection and contaminated water strategies in a number of vertical markets. And so it really, truly is a platform technology with applications all over the world. Juan Costello: Well, definitely, and yoursquo;re best known for your Odor-No-More platform which is animal bedding. Can you talk a little about the product? Dennis Calvert: Yes, thatrsquo;s a great story, it is a question of how does a small company like BioLargo find its way through the barriers to entry, because the barriers to entry into some of these markets are huge in these billion dollar markets, right? So yoursquo;re dealing with incumbent technology, incumbent players, each usually in the billion-dollar range. They like their market share and will preserve it very carefully. So we had to figure out a way, with the resources that we have, to get through the barrier to entry and prove that the technology has commercial opportunities that are valuable. Well, we started in the horse market. It is a great story, and in the first year we won three of the top industry awards. We established a national distribution footprint. We brought in a supply chain partner, a company called E.T. Horn, in business for 50 years. They offer us 14 ship points and turn key manufacturing and supply chain support. So, just recently in the Odor-No-More, wersquo;ve recruited independent sales reps, brought in the top distributors in that space, typically selling into the feed and tack industry. And whatrsquo;s interesting about it is last fall we won a Horse Product of the Year award through an independent review by The Horse Journal. The Horse Journal is the leading independent product reviewer in the industry. And so we were so pleased to win The Horse Journal Product of the Year award, and it is a big deal. So it is really getting some organic traction. It is growing steadily. Wersquo;re anxious to sell more. It is interesting be... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/xylitol-canada-inc-tsx-vxyl-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/xylitol-canada-inc-tsx-vxyl-ceo-interview/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:23:00 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8381 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/xylitol-canada-inc-tsx-vxyl-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 12:42 Xylitol Canada Inc. (TSX.V:XYL) President CEO:Andrew Reid Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street reporter and ... Xylitol Canada Inc. (TSX.V:XYL) President CEO:Andrew Reid Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street reporter and joining us today is Andrew Reid, CEO and President for Xylitol Canada Incorporated. The company trades on the TSX venture, ticker symbol is XYL. Thanks for joining us today here Andrew. Andrew Reid: Thanks for having me Juan. Juan Costello: Great, anytime. Now, starting off, give us a brief history and overview of the company here for some of our listeners that are new to your story. Andrew Reid: Xylitol Canada was founded as a Company called Sweet Diabetic Delight in 2004. The reason for the companyrsquo;s start-up was to bring a natural sweetener that diabetics could use, low glycemic, low-calorie, low-carb sweetener to replace the sugar or artificial sweeteners that are out there now. And basically we went through a process of watching the Xylitol prices consistently go up and down, pricing go up and down, supply go up and down. So, we came to a conclusion the only way to really bring xylitol to North America was to find a consistent supply and pricing, and in the few years wersquo;ve become a company, wersquo;ve gone down the road to figure out a way to manufacture cheaper and better xylitol in North America and we went public in 2010 last April for the reason of raising money to go down that road and build the plant. Juan Costello: Certainly. And so, what ndash; talk a little bit about the market opportunity for Xylitol and who some of the key competitors are in the arena? Andrew Reid: Yes, I mean the big players in the xylitol market in North America would be Danisco who was just acquired by DuPont. They would be the world leader in that area. Most xylitol is coming from outside North America and thatrsquo;s why itrsquo;s relatively new in North America markets, I mean, its well-known in Scandinavian countries, Europe, Asia what not, for all its myriad of benefits in oral health and diabetics and some ear infection prevention. So, you know, itrsquo;s large in confectionery the biggest use of xylitol would be in gum/ So, there is a few large players but as I said the cost of xylitol is relatively high for most people who want to purchase it, and our game is to get out there and find a better way. Xylitol Canada partner with a company called SunOpta BioProcess which was Canadarsquo;s largest natural food distribution company. They also had an arm that was working on Biomass conversion to cellulosic ethanol and we partnered with them in 2008 on an extensive RD project to find a better way to come up with a way to make xylose which we in turn make xylitol here in North America. A big thing that happened last year is SunOpta got purchase by a larger company called Mascoma and from that they put their technologies together and became one of the world leaders in basic xylose, which we will then take and turn, to a hopefully a better and easier way of making xylitol here. And wersquo;ll able to bring a better supply made here in North America to the North American people. Juan Costello: And is there anything else that you feel makes the company unique from some of the other players in the sector? Andrew Reid: Well, I mean as far as that wersquo;re going down to two tier system, wersquo;re developing products right now, wersquo;re launching a Xyla brand which is an all-natural and obviously xylitol made in from North American hardwood trees where most xylitol is coming from corn cob right now, outside of North America. We are all North American made front to back, saying that we take the tree or whatever biomass is developed here in North America and we turned into xylitol, wersquo;re not bringing the xylos in, everything is done here. Wersquo;re developing our own products as far as mint candies, nutraceuticals, Xylitol is used and basically anything as I said to anti-bacterial so it can be used in a ton of different my... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/abcourt-mines-inc-tsx-v-abi-berlin-abi-frankfurt-abi-ceo-interview-2/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/abcourt-mines-inc-tsx-v-abi-berlin-abi-frankfurt-abi-ceo-interview-2/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:57:39 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=8369 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/06/abcourt-mines-inc-tsx-v-abi-berlin-abi-frankfurt-abi-ceo-interview-2/feed/ 0 14:34 Abcourt Mines Inc.(TSX.V: ABI) (Berlin: ABI) (Frankfurt: ABI) CEO:Renaud Hinse Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street ... Abcourt Mines Inc.(TSX.V: ABI) (Berlin: ABI) (Frankfurt: ABI) CEO:Renaud Hinse Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst at the Wall Street reporter and joining us today is Renaud Hinse, the CEO for Abcourt Mines Incorporated. The company trades on the TSX venture, their ticker symbol is ABI as well as on the Berlin Exchange and a Frankfurt Exchange, ticker symbol is ABI as well. Thanks for joining us today Renaud. Renaud Hinse: Good day. Juan Costello: Good day. Now, starting of, give us a brief history and overview of the company for some of our listeners there that are new to the story. Renaud Hinse: Abcourt Mines is a Canadian based mining, development and exploration company with six ndash; five strategically located properties in Northwestern Quebec, Canada, all easily accessible by road. Our properties lie within adjacent to the prolific gold-producing belts of the Porcupine-Destor Break and the Larder Lake-Cadillac Break that run through the Rouyn-Noranda and Val-drsquo;Or, Quebec, regions where more than 40 million ounces of gold and substantial amounts of copper and zinc have been produced. Our Elder mine 43-101 gold resources stand at 200,000 ounces. In addition, we have a 43-101 feasibility study which was completed in 2007 by Genivar, a group of consulting engineers of Quebec City, indicate that the Abcourt-Barvue silver-zinc golden probable ore reserves which stand at about 70 million tons. Our economic [Indiscernible] [0:01:50] Abcourt is a reporting issuer in Quebec, Alberio, Alberta and British Columbia. As you said earlier, we lifted Toronto Stock Exchange, Venture Exchange in Berlin and Frankfurt. The company has about $8.1 million in working capital and they ndash; and all resources that we have, our extensive, they sold to over all categories about 15 million tons and they consist of gold ore and silver, zinc ore, we have another property with copper, zinc and a little bit of silver and gold. We also have some exploration, properties with Hitori Gold Resources and values in silver, zinc, copper and gold. Juan Costello: Great. Renaud Hinse: And we have about a 150 million shares outstanding and the value of our assets is quite substantial. Juan Costello: Excellent. So yeah, talk to us about the recent AB-11 hole drilled on the Abcourt-Barvue Mine. Renaud Hinse: We have been doing two drilling programs, one of the Elder mine which is a gold property. I have Rouyn-Noranda in Queacute;bec and we have also been doing some drilling on Abcourt-Barvue which is a zinc property which is not far from Val-drsquo;Or also in Quebec. On the Abcourt-Barvue property is the recent diamond drill hole, and are expected to a very good values in silver, zinc, over a good mining withhellip; Juan Costello: Well, actually and then is there are any updates to a report there from Elder since our last interview? Renaud Hinse: On Elder, we have been drilling for almost two years now, to expand and upgrade the resources that we have their and our drilling has been quite successful. We have, we have put out quite a number of a price releases listing several drilled holes with good value. So, we expect that our resources have expanded substantially from the last calculations that was on the 2009. Juan Costello: And talk to us a little bit about of some of the trends in your sector and how wee positioned the company is to capitalizing on them. Renaud Hinse: The mining sector is very ndash; going very well now. The price of the commodities are high, the price in Denver at $35 and thatrsquo;s the famous, gold with $1200, thatrsquo;s also extraordinary and I think the price I think is good. So, these are the commodities that we have in last quantity and in the area there are several companies that are working on different project trying to find gold or find base metals. The area is very active not far for mining. Several mines were... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/04/mikros-systems-corp-otcqbmkrs-ceo-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/04/mikros-systems-corp-otcqbmkrs-ceo-interview/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:34:17 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=7872 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/04/mikros-systems-corp-otcqbmkrs-ceo-interview/feed/ 0 13:26 Mikros Systems Corp (OTCQB:MKRS) CEO and CFO: Thomas Meaney Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst with the Wall ... Mikros Systems Corp (OTCQB:MKRS) CEO and CFO: Thomas Meaney Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst with the Wall Street Reporter and joining us today is Thomas Meaney, CEO and CFO for Mikros System Corporation which trades on the OTCQB, Ticker symbol MKRS. Thanks for joining us today, Tom. Thomas Meaney: Thank you Juan, good to talk to you again. Juan Costello: Certainly always good to have it with you on, now starting off give us a brief history and overview of Mikros for some of our listeners here they are new to the story. Thomas Meaney: Sure. We began operations back in the 80s and sold the company in 1996, the defense part of it to another company DRS Technologies. And we restarted Mikros in 2001 called Mikros 2.0 and wersquo;ve been profitable ndash; our revenues have increased and wersquo;ve been profitable ever since we restarted the company. The original company we developed is a very important products for the Navy, a Multi-Frequency Link-11 equipment and that one on most of the engine ship and today we have a product that was developed over a period of about six, seven years is about $8 million in research and development into it and is called the ADEPT equipment which is a maintainability and reliability equipment for Navy ship or radars and another equipments. We also have a number of different product areas but this one is the main contact where in wersquo;ve booked a $25 million contract for to find these equipments to the fleet on a multi year basis. Juan Costello: Certainly. And so what are some of the drivers behind the companyrsquo;s four-year results, which were particularly strong? Thomas Meaney: Our revenues nearly doubled in our profitability increase significantly which, of course, is very nice because the cash position increased significantly also. It was really the, itrsquo;s the Navy adopting the equipment and make near a program of records for the Ezrsquo;s, cruisers and destroyers of which there are about 85 of those. These equipments sell for about 100000 a piece then we put Trooper ship though, you know, this just on that group of ship there is a $20 million market that wersquo;re investing now and wersquo;re able to finish the year with a very good bank log after, after, you know, delivering nearly $5 million in sales. I guess to answer your question in one or two sentence, the Navy is finally adopted this equipment for use of, for all the war combatants, the new look for all combat ship, the LCS is also adopting the equipment. Thatrsquo;s another market of about a 110 system. So, wersquo;re, wersquo;re just really starting to rip the rewards of about six years of development so on. Juan Costello: Well, good and so talk a little bit more about some of those market trends and how opposition Mikros is to capitalize on them going forward? Thomas Meaney: Wersquo;re the only supplier of this equipment and because of the small business electrical property protection we should remain there for a number of years. We are addressing one ship class after another, we go from the cruises and destroyers to look for combat ship and then wersquo;re picking a hard look at sub marines and zigzag in and also the carrier. Also in addition to the main radar on the, on the cruises and destroyers were addressing large solar radios and emergency equipment so that each ship hopefully could have three to four or even five of this equipments per ship, as I like to say the nominal price for this stuff be $100,000. So, in addition to the ADEPT program, which is a mainline program we do have a number of research and development programs in the wireless area in, in the three area ndash; wersquo;re teamed up with Ocean Power Technology so that wersquo;re supplying the system engineering to their energy harvesting buoys and there are several large different contractors that were negotiating strategic relationships with today as we sp... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/03/geeknet-inc-nasdaqgknt-management-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/03/geeknet-inc-nasdaqgknt-management-interview/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:20:26 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=7403 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/03/geeknet-inc-nasdaqgknt-management-interview/feed/ 0 8:00 Geeknet, Inc. (Nasdaq:GKNT) CFO: Kathyrn McCarthy INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst with The Wall Street Reporter ... Geeknet, Inc. (Nasdaq:GKNT) CFO: Kathyrn McCarthy INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst with The Wall Street Reporter and joining us today is Katy McCarthy, the CFO for Geeknet Incorporated. The company trades on NASDAQ and ticker symbol is GKNT. Thanks for joining us today Katy. Kathryn McCarthy: Thank you very much. Itrsquo;s great to be here. Juan Costello: Great. Now starting off, talk about some of the drivers behind the companyrsquo;s quarterly results which were particularly strong. Kathryn McCarthy: Sure. We had a strong 4th quarter. We had 53% topline growth in the quarter. With our ThinkGeek business contributing 60% revenue growth year over year and our media business showing 12% revenue growth. So we are happy with the growth in the quarter. Juan Costello: Certainly. And perhaps you can give us a brief history and overview of the company for some of our listeners that maybe new to the story. Kathryn McCarthy: Certainly. Geeknet is a company that is, itrsquo;s been a public company for ten years or more but itrsquo;s evolved a lot over those years. And now, the company is called Geeknet has two distinct business units. One is the e-commerce business called ThinkGeek which is an online retailer of products targeted towards technology enthusiasts and the geek community. And the other part of the business is our media business that has certain websites, SourceForge, Slashdot, and Freshmeat that are sites that where people can download open source code and technology enthusiasts can collaborate. Those businesses have come together under the umbrella of Geeknet and Ken Langone is our CEO. Juan Costello: Certainly. And talk to us about the recent partnership through ThinkGeek for Q-Games and some of the other recent partnerships? Kathryn McCarthy: Sure. Today we announced a partnership with a popular game developer called Q-Games. They created a game called Pixel Junk game series thatrsquo;s very popular with some of our followers, our customers. And theyrsquo;re partnering with us to offer licensed products to fans of those games. And wersquo;re really excited about it. Many of our customers are fans of the series and wersquo;re definitely fans of the series as well. Juan Costello: Well good. So what do you say makes the company unique from some of the other players in the sector? Kathryn McCarthy: I think what makes us unique is our customers and the partnership we have with our customers. We believe we have a very strong collaboration, peer production. We feel like we have a terrific set of customers, people who care very much about the products we design in our E-commerce business or the software they can download and our media business. Theyrsquo;re very loyal. Theyrsquo;re passionate. Theyrsquo;re definitely people who are technology professionals and enthusiasts that form a terrific customer base. Juan Costello: Great. So do you believe that the companyrsquo;s pretty well uhm Kat, pretty well positioned right now to take advantage of some of the trends in your sector? Kathryn McCarthy: When we look at the E-commerce business, if you look at some of the studies, a recent study by Forrester, the US retail sales online will continue to grow 10% a year through 2015. And that actually grew 13% between 2009 and 2010. And we feel as an E-commerce retailer, we have the opportunity to take advantage of that. We also have recently ramped up what we do in social media. If you think about the year 2010 for example, we put a big focus there and wersquo;re able to take advantage of that with our customers. We have more than 200,000 Twitter followers and 150,000 Facebook fans. So in that sense, we believe wersquo;re well positioned in E-commerce. In media, we have a large number of uniques. Our SourceForge business for example has 41 million unique visitors. And we have many outside the United S... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/03/biolase-technology-inc-nasdaq-blti-ceo-interview-2/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/03/biolase-technology-inc-nasdaq-blti-ceo-interview-2/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:41:09 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=7387 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/03/biolase-technology-inc-nasdaq-blti-ceo-interview-2/feed/ 0 22:52 Biolase Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLTI) CEO: Federico Pignatelli Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst with The Wall ... Biolase Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLTI) CEO: Federico Pignatelli Interview Transcripts: Juan Costello: Good day from Wall Street. This is Juan Costello, senior analyst with The Wall Street Reporter and joining us today is Federico Pignatelli, the CEO for Biolase Technology. The company trades on NASDAQ and the ticker symbol BLTI. Thanks for joining us today Federico. Federico Pignatelli: Thank you. Itrsquo;s a pleasure. Juan Costello: Great. Now starting off, give us a brief history and overview of Biolase for some of our listeners here that are new to your story? Federico Pignatelli: Biolase has been a very stressful company in the past. And I became the Chairman, the Executive Chairman in 1994 when the company was a three million dollar market value company. And we developed the finest laser technology for application in dentistry and some medical applications. And the company has grown into a real success story from basically a million dollar in sales to 70 million dollars in sales in 2006. And the stock has gone from essentially half a dollar to 21 and a half dollars in 2004, and with a market value of 430-plus million dollars. Then in 2006, I stepped down from being the chairman and being involved in the company. And the company since then has been unfortunately very badly managed by three different CEOs in a row. And so I stepped back in into the company in August of 2010. I became the CEO of the company and back in being the chairman. And since then, we enjoyed a very rapid turnaround in business of the company. And we just completed a 4th quarter with sales much greater than the previous quarters. And the company has lost money every quarter in 2010 and in Q4 2010 when we made a profit of around 750,000 dollars. So the company had lost millions of dollars in the previous three quarters. And as I became the CEO of the company, I regrouped the entire team, restructured the company, relaunched the company also with new products. And now we are in a position where we are profitable. And so this is a very, very important milestone thatrsquo;s been accomplished. Juan Costello: Well great. And so what were some of the drivers behind the companyrsquo;s Q4 results which saw the turnaround to profitability? Federico Pignatelli: Well the main driver I would say is being the fact that we changed the entire business modeling and how we would sell our products. Until August, we were, past management decided to just sell through one distributor only. That is Henry Schein that is a very large distributor in North America. And so basically they gave the worldwide rights of distribution of our products to Henry Schein. Unfortunately, it didnrsquo;t work out as they wished. And so I for that reason, basically, Henry Schein is a very fine company. Itrsquo;s an eight billion dollar company but selling high tech equipment is a very specialized kind or type of transaction. You have to really spend your time in making doctors, in this case dentists understand the advantages of the technology. And so you need very high-end sales people to make this kind of sales and Schein was not equipped with it. So in essence, we went on to go back to the original model, sales marketing model that has been working very well and that has made the company a real success. Like I said, we grew sales within a few years from one million to 70 million. And so by changing the business model in Q4, we had a very drastic increase in sales and coupled with a restructuring of the company where 20 people had lost their jobs. And we went from 160 to 140 people and restructured the entire cost structure of the company, we managed to go from a few million dollars in loss the previous quarter to a profitability of 750,000 dollars more or less in Q4 2010. And as we are in 2011, we foresee a very strong growth in the order of 120 to 140% compared to 2010 in revenues and clearly a very substantial profitability for the y... CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/02/mill-bay-ventures-tsxmbv-otcmlbvf-video-interview/ http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/02/mill-bay-ventures-tsxmbv-otcmlbvf-video-interview/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:48:28 +0000 admin http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/?p=7266 http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2011/02/mill-bay-ventures-tsxmbv-otcmlbvf-video-interview/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Mill Bay Ventures (TSX:MBV) (OTC:MLBVF) President: Bill Glasier Mill Bay Ventures (TSX:MBV) (OTC:MLBVF) President: Bill Glasier CEO,Interview,,Spotlight,Stocks jmarks@wallstreetreporter.com no No