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Executive Management

John W. Price

President and Chief Executive Officer of RBC Life Sciences

A retired U.S. Navy commander, John joined RBC Life Sciences in October 2007 as CEO of the company’s wholly owned medical products subsidiary, MPM Medical, Inc. He was promoted to president of RBC Life Sciences in December 2007 and he became CEO in January 2009. Prior to joining RBC Life Sciences, John served in a number of executive leadership roles for two global, nutritional supplements companies, including Herbalife, and pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly & Company. He is a member of the International Aloe Science Council's board of directors.

Paul Miller

President of MPM Medical, subsidiary

Paul is president of MPM Medical Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of RBC Life Sciences. MPM Medical markets a line of wound care and pain management products that are receiving global, clincial acclaim. Paul founded MPM Medical in 1992 and has served as its president since the beginning. Prior to founding the company, he served as vice president of marketing and sales for Carrington Laboratories. MPM was acquired by RBC Life Sciences in 2001.

Steven E. Brown

Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer of RBC Life Sciences

Steve has served as chief financial officer and vice president of finance since joining the company in 1994. Prior to joining the company, Steve served as vice president of finance, treasurer, chief financial officer and was a member of the board of directors for Carrington Laboratories Inc. He became a certified public accountant during the 1980s and was previously associated with an international accounting firm.

Kenneth L. Sabot

Senior Vice President of Operations of RBC Life Sciences

Ken has been RBC Life Sciences' senior vice president of operations and a member of the board of directors since joining the company in 1998. Prior to joining the company, he was the vice president of operations for To Life! LLC, a start-up network marketing company. Prior to joining To Life, he was employed by Light Force, Inc., where he served as the controller and chief operating officer. He became a certified public accountant in 1969.

Ann-Celeste Billings

Vice President of Marketing of RBC Life Sciences

Sciences Ann joined RBC Life Sciences as vice president of marketing in February 2008. She is a veteran marketing professional with more than 10 years of direct-selling experience. Prior to joining the company, she served as director of product marketing & development for health and beauty at Tahitian Noni International, a global network marketing company engaged in the sale of nutritional products. She also served as senior manager of product marketing and development for global network marketing company Nu Skin International.

Trevor Scofield

Vice President of International Operations of RBC Life Sciences

Trevor has an extensive background in marketing and business consulting. He operated his own consulting business and has worked for some of the largest computer consulting companies in Canada, helping them incorporate technology into their business practices. According to Trevor, he has been on the Internet for 20 years, long before anyone ever heard of the World Wide Web. His talent for managing both people and technology has been an invaluable asset to RBC Life Sciences’ Canada office, which he headed from 1992 until joining the Dallas office in a wider role as vice president of international operations.

Don Clark

Chief Information Officer of RBC Life Sciences

Don brings more than two deacdes of information technology experience to his position. During the 1980s, he produced a number of successful software titles addressing industrial automation and office productivity. He was also involved in a systems integration firm where he managed the engineering and build-out of computer networks in financial institutions nationwide. During the 1990s, he spearheaded the software and hardware integration for more than 100,000 workstations for a prestigious financial institution, which earned him recognition from Microsoft and others for pioneering new technologies and processes.

Board of Directors

Clinton H. Howard

Outside Director and Chairman of the Board
Founder, RBC Life Sciences

Over the last 50 years, Clinton has left a civic and business legacy that has touched lives around the world. In the 1960s, he founded American Biomedical Corporation, which grew to become one of the nation’s largest medical laboratory chains. In 1974, he founded Carrington Laboratories Inc., a firm dedicated to incorporating Aloe vera extract into personal care products. While with Carrington, Clinton assembled a team of researchers to determine what it was about Aloe vera that gave the plant its legendary health benefits. After five years and $20 million in research, the team isolated the plant’s most-active polysaccharide—acemannan. In 1991 he founded RBC Life Sciences as the venue through which to create the best, science-based nutritional supplements and skin care products on the market.

John W. Price

Director
President and Chief Executive Officer, RBC Life Sciences

Director
Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance

Director
Senior Vice President of Operations

Director
President, MPM Medical Inc.

Independent Director
Chairman of compensation committee; member of audit committee

He was elected to the Board of Directors in June 2004. Since 1993, Philipp has been the Managing Partner of Insight Consulting, a consulting firm specializing in organizational structure, executive and leadership development and strategic planning. Prior to holding his present position, Philipp held various human resource management positions with several organizations, including Epic Healthcare, American Medical International and LifeMark Corporation. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a masters of business administration degree and has served as an Irving city council member since 1996.

Robert A. Kaiser

Independent Director
Chairman of audit committee; member of compensation committee

Robert was elected to the board in September 2008. He brings more than three decades of executive-level leadership to the board. Robert is chairman and CEO of CLST Holdings, the public company remaining from the 2007 sale of Cellstar Inc.—an international logistics and distribution firm serving the communications industry. He previously was CEO of Mobile Star, CEO and CFO of Skytel/Worldcom, CFO of Cingular/Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems and CFO of LTV Energy.

Governance

Board Committees

Compensation Committee: Joseph P. Philipp, Chairman; Robert A. Kaiser, member. Compensation Committee Charter (PDF)
Audit Committee: Robert A. Kaiser, Chairman; Joseph P. Philipp, member. Audit Committee Charter (PDF)

Code of Ethics
Directors, executives and financial managers hold an important and elevated role in corporate governance. These individuals are uniquely capable and empowered to ensure that stakeholders’ interests are appropriately balanced, protected and preserved. Accordingly, this code provides principles to which directors, executives and financial managers are expected to adhere and advocate. The code also embodies, for all individuals, rules regarding individual and peer responsibilities, as well as responsibilities to RBC Life Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively the “Company’), the public and other stakeholders.

Violation of RBC Life Science’s Code of Ethics will result in disciplinary action up to, and including, termination of employment and/or removal from any non-employee position.

All executives and financial managers of the Company will:

Act with honesty and integrity, avoiding actual or apparent conflicts of interest in personal and professional relationships.
Provide constituents with information that is accurate, complete, objective, relevant, timely and understandable.
Comply with applicable rules and regulations of federal, state, provincial and local governments, and other appropriate private and public regulatory agencies.
Act in good faith, responsibly, with due care, competence and diligence, without misrepresenting material facts or allowing one’s independent judgment to be subordinated.
Respect the confidentiality of information acquired in the course of one’s work except when authorized or otherwise legally obligated to disclose. Confidential information acquired in the course of one’s work will not used for personal advantage.
Share knowledge and maintain skills important and relevant to constituents’ needs.
Proactively promote ethical behavior as a responsible partner among peers, in the work environment and the community.
Achieve responsible use of and control over all assets and resources employed or entrusted.
Report known or suspected violations of this code in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures.
Be accountable for adhering to this code.

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