From the Back Cover
WAKE UP TO THE MOST IMPORTANT TREND IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
There is a new gold rush on. The single biggest trend to affect mankind is here, and there are fortunes to be made.
The next phase in the world's development will not be dominated by the rise of China or India, or by green technologies, important though they are. Rather the world as we know it is about to be transformed by breakthrough achievements in human life extension and improvement. Entire industries are soon to be disrupted by developments in Biotechnology. And there are unparalleled opportunities for early investors to profit.
This amazing acceleration in technological development is coming under the radar for many, but will soon prove to be more important to the human race than the internet, iPads, smartphones and all the other material goods we regard as technology. The fusion of technology and medicine will enable us to live longer and healthier lives with a considerably superior quality of life.
LEARN, DIGEST, INFORM AND INVEST
CRACKING THE CODE is the first book to explore with full clarity the implications of an industry that will define the 21st century and to outline the huge returns to be had for those who invest in the companies behind these products and the changing demographic that this technology will bring about.
Leading investment experts Jim Mellon and Al Chalabi have spent a year immersed in the life sciences industry, researching and interviewing over 100 companies. Writing not as scientists but as investors, they strip away the technical jargon and demystify the information to help you to under-stand the science and clearly identify the key industry participants and investment opportunities.
The first authors to forecast an economic crisis, as early as 2005 in their book Wake Up!, show you how the biotech industry's biggest successes will dwarf the current colossi of the stock markets. May you live long and prosper from it.
JIM MELLON is an investor with interests in several industries. He is founder of a listed fund management company, Charlemagne Capital, and an Asian mining group, Regent Pacific. In addition, Jim is a director of Manx Financial Group - an Isle of Man based bank, and a controlling shareholder of Speymill - a property business, and Webis Holdings. He is a co-founder of Uramin and West African Minerals Resources, both mining groups. The Burnbrae Group, his private company, is a substantial landlord in Germany and in the Isle of Man, and he also owns the hotel chain Sleepwell Hotels. Jim spends most of his time working on start-up ideas and on investing. Jim lives in the Isle of Man, Brussels and Ibiza. He is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
AL CHALABI is an entrepreneur with a diverse professional background who started his career as a systems engineer in Canada. Following this, he worked as a management consultant advising corporations across a number of industries, and more recently as the CFO for a real estate investment company. He currently runs CASP-R, a firm he co-founded in 2008 to provide independent real estate research and advisory services to investors and corporate occupiers across the Asia-Pacific region. He lives in Hong Kong with his partner Fiona and two young children.
