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  Management Timothy E. Vail President & CEO Timothy Vail’s entrepreneurial career has focused on alternative energy, from fuel cells to clean coal. Mr. Vail has participated in many successful alternative energy endeavors during a career that spans almost two decades. Before joining Accelergy, Mr. Vail was the President and CEO of Synthesis Energy Systems (SES), a global developer of coal gasification facilities that cleanly produce high quality transportation fuels from low rank coal resources. Mr. Vail raised over $200 million for SES, built their first commercial facility and successfully listed the company on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Prior to joining SES in 2005, he served as the Director of Commercialization for Fuel Cell Development for General Motors. Mr. Vail’s duties included developing GM’s Shanghai fuel cell office and coordinating engineering facilities in the United States, Germany, Japan and China. While at GM, he completed the world’s largest fuel cell commercialization deal with Dow Chemical and developed a fleet of fuel cell vehicles for the US Postal Service. Prior to his position at GM, Mr. Vail was the Vice President of Product Development for The New Power Company, a start-up subsidiary of Enron Corporation, where he was responsible for the development of new products and services. Mr. Vail was previously Vice President at Enron Energy Services, focusing on alternative energy opportunities. Prior to Enron, Mr. Vail was a securities lawyer with Andrews & Kurth, LLP. Mr. Vail holds a JD from the University of Houston Law Center and a BA in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin. David A. Eichinger Chief Financial Officer David Eichinger’s career has ranged from developing innovative energy technologies to financing the activities of the largest energy companies in the world. Before joining Accelergy, Mr. Eichinger was the CFO of Synthesis Energy Systems (SES), a global developer of coal gasification facilities that cleanly produce high quality transportation fuels from low rank coal resources. Mr. Eichinger raised over $200 million dollars for SES, built their first commercial facility and successfully listed the company on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Prior to his tenure at SES, Mr. Eichinger held various positions at General Motors, including his last position commercializing fuel cells for stationary applications. Among his successes at GM, he engineered the largest stationary fuel cell deal with Dow Chemical. Previously, Mr. Eichinger led the spinoff of The New Power Company from Enron. Following three successful equity offerings that raised over $750 million, Mr. Eichinger was responsible for all Corporate Development activities for New Power. At Enron, Mr. Eichinger led diverse Corporate Development activities across retail and wholesale businesses, including the acquisition of Portland General. Prior to Enron, Mr. Eichinger spent five years with Exxon and Exxon Chemicals focused on Corporate Finance and Capital Markets. Mr. Eichinger holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon as well as graduate and undergraduate degrees in Chemistry from The College of William and Mary. Mr. James A. Hughes President and CEO of North American Operations As a senior executive leader in the energy sector, Jim Hughes has leveraged complex, multi-billion dollar regulated and non-regulated corporate assets. He has extensive global strategic and operational experience in both developed and emerging markets. Prior to joining Accelergy, Mr. Hughes was Chief Executive Officer and Director of AEI, a $5 billion company that owned and operated energy infrastructure businesses in emerging markets worldwide. He led the process that ultimately resulted in the sale of the AEI’s assets to a series of buyers. Prior to AEI, Mr. Hughes was a Principal of Priest River Ltd., a privately held company that focused on diverse micro-cap investments in North American distressed assets. As President and Chief Operating Officer of PEI, an Enron subsidiary, Mr. Hughes had joint responsibility for overall management of the company. He spent almost a decade with Enron in positions ranging from President and Chief Operating Officer of Enron Global Assets to Assistant General Counsel of Enron International. Mr. Hughes began his career as a securities lawyer with Vinson & Elkins. He holds a BA in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and earned his JD from The University of Texas School of Law. Dr. Rocco Fiato Chief Technology Officer Dr. Rocco Fiato brings over 25 years of experience in synthetic fuels catalysis science and process engineering, corporate strategic planning, and intellectual property management from the oil and gas industries to Accelergy. Before joining Accelergy, Dr. Fiato held various senior positions at Exxon’s Corporate Science Laboratories and executive staff positions in ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, including Technical Advisor to ExxonMobil Law Department, where he coordinated major gas-to-liquids (GTL) patent litigation cases before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He was the Head of Competitive Assessment in the Gas Processes Division of the Engineering Department and, most recently, Intellectual Property Manager of the GTL Technology Division. Dr. Fiato managed the development of corporation-wide IP strategy and the enforcement and licensing of 3500+ patents in ExxonMobil’s GTL Technology portfolio. Dr. Fiato has served as Chairman of Energy Frontiers International (EFI) and Finance Chairman of the Natural Gas Conversion Board (NGCB) since 2005. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, has been actively involved in programs for DOE 2011 Quadrennial Technology Review in the development of US Alternative Fuels Strategy and has participated in the NSF and National Research Council assessments of the future of catalysis in the US. Dr. Fiato is a named inventor on more than 68 US patents and 280 issued or pending foreign patents. He has published over 44 scientific publications on a range of catalytic processes for CO2 utilization, high temperature oxidation chemistry and natural gas and coal conversion to fuels and petrochemicals. Dr. Fiato received a PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of Rochester and a BS in Physical Organic Chemistry from Clarkson College in New York. Sam Zaczepinski Vice President - Engineering Prior to joining Accelergy, Sam Zaczepinski served as Process Vice President of Carmagen Engineering, a consulting company employing over 180 engineers and researchers, where he was responsible for marketing consulting services to major technology licensors and the refining industry. Prior to Carmagen Engineering, Mr. Zaczepinski held a number of management positions, including Research Director and Licensing Manager. Mr. Zaczepinski has over 37 years of experience with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. He offers extensive expertise in the areas of process engineering, refining (technology, engineering, start-ups and management), synthetic fuels, research guidance and technology licensing. Mr. Zaczepinski holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Tennessee. Richard Bauman Vice President - Technology Prior to joining Accelergy, Richard Bauman worked for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company since 1965. Since then, he has directed the development of leading technologies in refining, coal liquefaction, shale retorting and natural gas conversion, including Single Stage Hydrocracking, Gofining, Residfining, Exxon Donor Solvent Coal Liquefaction, Microcat Coal Liquefaction, Exxon’s Shale Retorting Process and AGC-21 (Exxon’s Advanced Gas Conversion technology). He has been involved in a range of activities, from breakthrough research to operation of large Process Demonstration Units and, most recently, the development of Exxon’s AGC-21 technology. Mr. Bauman supervised the $500+ million program, which resulted in over 400 patents. He is the author on over ten of these patents. Mr. Bauman holds a BS from Drexel Institute of Technology and an MS from New York University in Chemical Engineering. Since his retirement from Exxon in 2000, he has continued to evaluate advanced technologies. Mark P. Allen Vice President – Integrated Carbon Solutions Mark Allen is a licensed professional engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the design, construction and operation of large-scale engineering, infrastructure and environmental projects, including biological process systems with capacity of more than 500 million gallons per day. As a successful entrepreneur, Mr. Allen co-founded A2BE Carbon Capture in 2007 and a corporate knowledge management company in 1999. Previously, he managed large engineering organizations for Rust Environment and Infrastructure, Metcalf & Eddy, SAIC, and others. Under these organizations he had full profit and loss responsibility for multiple lines of business, including water and wastewater engineering, environmental engineering, hazardous and solid waste engineering, transportation engineering, information technology and other professional service offerings. In the algal biomass industry, he focuses on process engineering, systems integration and systems architecture for scalable algal biomass production and deployment. He is a thought leader in carbon capture and reuse, employing algal biomass and terrestrial carbon sequestration integration with large scale industrial processes. Mr. Allen is a founding board member of the Algal Biomass Organization, has chaired several important committees and currently serves as its Chairman and President. Mr. Allen holds a Civil Engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is also a former Adjacent Professor of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. |
