March 24, 2010 (FinancialWire) — GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTCBB: GOVX), a biotechnology firm, has elected Steven Antebi and David A. Dodd to its board of directors. These appointments bring the number of board members to eight, five of whom are considered independent.

Antebi is the president and chairman of the board of Maple Capital Management, an equity fund focused on investments in North America, a position he has held since 1993. He is also president and CEO of Galileo Partners LLC and president of Blue and Gold Enterprises Inc., funds that invest in registered direct investments, PIPE transactions, private placements and open market equity transactions.

Dodd is the chief executive officer of RiversEdge BioVentures, an investment and advisory firm focused on life sciences and pharmaceuticals, which he founded in 2009. From December 2007 to June 2009, Dodd was president, CEO and chairman of BioReliance, an organization that provided biological safety testing, viral clearance testing, genetic and mammalian technology testing and laboratory animal diagnostic services testing.

Georgia-based GeoVax is a biotechnology company developing human vaccines for diseases caused by HIV-1 and other infectious agents.

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