Management
Michael Fessler - Founding Partner and Vice President
Michael has an extensive background in science and engineering with a focus on creating healthy manufacturing and work areas. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Long Beach State University. While studying at San Diego State University, he participated in a marine study of sea urchins as a food source with the National Science Foundation that has been added to the collections of the Library of Congress. He worked in his family's industrial chemical company in sales, engineering and management positions after college, where he developed custom chemical formulations and detoxification procedures. Concern with the environmental impact of toxic materials in the workplace led him to start a contracting business that specialized in detoxifying both commercial and residential properties. His firm also handled remodeling projects for persons with chemical sensitivities. Following a move to the Pacific Northwest, his background has proven invaluable in developing safe manufacturing processes and pure ingredient formulas for Herbalix Restoratives body, hair and skin care products.
Elizabeth Shannon Fessler - Founding Partner and President
Elizabeth earned a Bachelor of Science in Marketing Degree followed by an MBA in Materials Management. She worked for over thirty years in the medical and pharmaceutical industry. Her experience includes Purchasing, Planning & Distribution, Inventory Control and Customer Service. She managed small plant purchasing operations and product donations programs, getting critical medical supplies to disaster areas, low income families, special needs clinics, veterinary clinics, free clinics, Native American nations, national immunization drives, and blood banks. Elizabeth also designed training programs for in-house Customer Service personnel and established a product research library for a major pharmaceutical company.
Advisory Council
Christopher Exley, PhD - Special Consultant
Christopher Exley, PhD is one of the foremost authorities on aluminum and the myriad ways that it impacts life on earth. Currently he is a Reader in Bioinorganic Chemistry, The Birchall Centre, and Lenard-Jones Laboratories at Keele University in Staffordshire, England. More.
Stephan Zeeman, PhD - Special Consultant
Stephan serves as a Full Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of New England, where he has been teaching since 1987. His course studies include: Oceanography, Physical Geology, Ecology and Plants of New England. Prior to his tenured position at the University of New England, he served as Director at the Environmental Education Center in Everglades, Florida. He also conducted Post Doctoral research at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Fort Pierce, Florida, with his area of research conducted in phytoplankton physiology and ecology. Professor Zeeman has extensive knowledge of kelp species and other forms of sea vegetation and their healing properties and benefits.
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Dr. Gilles Mercier, MD - Special Consultant
Dr. Gilles Mercier graduated from Laval University in Quebec in 1967, obtaining his certification in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He became Chief Resident of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Lakeshore General Hospital and Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal in 1970. He served on the Board of Directors of the AOGQ (Quebec Association of Obstetricians- Gynaecologists for 5 years, and was nominated to several other notable organizations throughout his career, including the Maternel Mortality Committee. Dr. Mercier has also held numerous nominations within the American College of Obstetricians-Gynecologists, served on the Committee on Continuing Medical Education and also as an Organizing Committee member for the joint conference of Obstetrics-Gynecologists. He currently serves as Chief of Department of Obstetrics-Gynaecology and also as a CSSS Co-Director for the Family-Infancy-Youth Program in Montreal.
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Our Very Special Beginnings
David Bruce Maline, MD - 1935-2002, Founder
Dr. David Maline, MD was a retired neurosurgeon who graduated from Dartmouth College and Boston University Medical School, then continued in private practice in Southern California specializing in spinal and intra cranial surgery until his retirement in 1998. Due to health challenges, he developed an interest in the relationship between healing, the skin and electromagnetic fields of the body. Dr. Maline became interested in learning more about the effects of these fields on healing and well-being. He then formed the company that later came to be known as Herbalix Restorative, LLC.
Judith Pillsbury - 1941-2007, Creator of the Original Herbalix Tincture
Judith was the creator of the original Herbalix tincture and was also a member of the Herbalix Restoratives advisory council. Judith had been involved in the healing arts for over twenty- five years prior to her death. She was trained as a psycho-educational therapist at the Bank Street College of Education in New York and received her Masters degree in education. She then obtained her certification as a massage therapist from the Riverside School of Massage in Riverside, California where she studied anatomy, physiology, and various massage techniques, as well as the use of botanicals and oils. Due to Judith's skill as a medical intuitive, she garnered the respect of physicians, psychotherapists, psychologists and chiropractors alike.
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