Glen J. Bertini, President, CEO and Chairman

• Spent over two decades working with cable rejuvenation technology beginning with its development at Dow Corning in 1985 and continuing through its commercialization and growth to over 85 million feet of cable rejuvenated and over $1 billion in capital saved so far.
• The world's foremost authority on cable rejuvenation with over 40 articles published on the subject, a total of 24 patents on cable rejuvenation and related technologies and 6 more pending.
• 1992 co-recipient of the prestigious R&D 100 award for cable rejuvenation.
• 2006 winner of the $100,000 Zino Zillionaire Investment Forum award for the best investment opportunity in the Pacific Northwest.
• 2010 winner of the Puget Sound Engineering Council, Industry Engineer of the Year Award.
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, a Senior Member of the AIChe, an IEEE Fellow, a voting member of the ICC, and a licensed professional engineer.

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David Lewis, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

• Over 20 years financial management experience in companies publicly traded and privately held, large and small, national and international, products and services, very rapidly changing and pioneers in their industry.
• Lead or participated in numerous mergers and acquisitions, the largest valued at $30 million.
• Created, reorganized or turned around many administrative departments all with outstanding success.
• Helped formulate strategic policy, annual business plans and company procedures, functional responsibilities and systems and controls.
• Hired and developed key management staff and helped attract senior managers and directors.
• First outside executive hired at Wizards of the Coast, which was the fastest growing, privately held company in the US as measured by Inc magazine in 1995, where revenue grew from $50,000 to over $100 million in five years.
• Provided consulting services for numerous startup companies.
• MBA from Seattle University.
• BA from University of Washington.
• Certified Public Accountant, State of Washington.
• Board Member, University of Washington Accounting Development Fund.
• Judge, University of Washington Entrepreneur Competition.

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Thomas L. Markl, Director

• Tom Markl is the CEO of Nelson Real Estate Management LLC, which owns and operates retail and office commercial real estate in suburban Seattle and eastern Washington State.
• Former Senior Vice President of UTILX, where his duties included managing FlowMole and CableCure operations in 40 states, domestic and international sales and marketing, legal affairs, contracts, engineering, and training.
• Prior to joining UTILX, Tom was Senior Vice President of Operations for North American Energy Services, a provider of power plant operations, maintenance, construction management, and technical services to the electric utility industry.
• In addition, Tom has held positions with the Weyerhaeuser Company, Ford Motor Company and served on the turnaround team at Cutter & Buck.
• Tom received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Allan O'Bryant, Director

• President and CEO of Yunzei Capital.
• Former President of Aflac International (Tokyo), Deputy CFO of Aflac, Inc., and Chairman and CEO of various international Aflac subsidiaries, where he was accountable for international operations that generated $10.4 billion in revenues in 2005.
• Before joining Aflac, Allan was a senior audit manager with KPMG Peat Marwick in Atlanta and Tokyo, where he specialized in providing assurance and consulting services to financial institutions and a broad range of US-based Japanese companies.
• Professor of Financial and Management Accounting at Sophia University in Tokyo from 1989-97.
• Allan received a B.S. in Accounting with Minors in Economics and Japanese, from Brigham Young University. He also holds a Master in Accountancy from BYU.

Russell Pullan, Director

• Russell Pullan joined Nomura, Japan’s leading investment bank, in 2006 to start-up New Energy & Clean Technology Ventures.
• Previously, he was Head of Venture Capital at the Carbon Trust; the UK’s first cleantech focused venture fund.
• Russell has twenty years of international experience in clean technologies and alternative energy as a venture capitalist, limited partner, serial entrepreneur and developer of technology and environment-related businesses.
• Russell is a member of the CalSTRS Clean Technology Advisory Board, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the UK All-Parliamentary Environmental Group, and the international board of Cleantech. Russell has an HBSc from Canada and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

Guillame Baixas, Observer

• Guillaume Baixas is an associate of Nomura New Energy and Clean Technology Ventures based out of London, England.
• Prior to joining Nomura New Energy and Clean Technology Ventures, Guillaume was an investment professional at Duke Street Capital, a leading European mid-market private equity fund with more than €2 billion under management, based in Paris, France, where he evaluated €50-350m Leveraged Buy-Out transaction opportunities.
• Before joining Duke Street, Guillaume worked with Orange Belgium, a large high-growth telecom company, as a financial and management controller of the technical department in charge of the development and maintenance of the mobile telephony network in Belgium.
• Guillaume received a Master of Science in Finance from ESCP-EAP Europe Business School in Paris and a Master in Econometrics from the University of Toulouse, France.

Richard K. Brinton, VP Market Development

• Over 30 years experience in business development in North America, Europe, the Americas and Asia. He has focused his career on the worldwide introduction of new technologies (including two years as an expatriate) and has gained wide experience in industrial processes, machine tools, robotics and construction.
• Chairman of Japanese Joint Venture, which he negotiated.
• Vice President, managing a European division.
• President of profitable Export Management Company, which he founded - established overseas distribution channels for dozens of North American companies ranging from construction equipment to software.
• Broad business background serving in positions of Applications Engineering, Regional Service Management, Product Development, Marketing, Sales and General Management.
• Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
• Past Board member of the World Trade Club of Seattle.
• B.S. Industrial Engineering & B.A. Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University and graduate work toward an MBA at the University of Dayton.

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Dr. David Busby, Senior Research Scientist

• Ph.D., Organometallic Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
• Worked 28 years at Union Carbide and Dow Chemical in the areas of new product development, product formulation, and technical service
• 31 Publications
• 18 Patents

Norman E. Keitges, Engineering Manager

• Senior mechanical engineer, chief engineer and project manager with 25 years experience in mechanical, fluid mechanics and hydraulics. Projects included projecting strength of materials, gas dynamics, wind power generation, motion control, industrial electrical controls, wireless control systems, power transmission, R & D testing and failure analysis of materials.
• The last 19 years at AeroGo, Inc. focused on the design, sales, production, and manufacturing of custom engineering projects for, Caterpillar Marine Engines, Lockheed Martin F-22 'Affordable Stealth', Boeing led-Airborne Laser (ABL), Hyundai Heavy Industries, FUJI Heavy Industries, ATK Thiokol Propulsion, Ford, Caterpillar Tractors, Boeing Delta IV rockets, Mitsubishi and Hawker de Havilland.
• Provided direction and technical support for system installation, construction and startup activities at numerous customer sites within the United States as well as in Asia and Europe.
• Provided troubleshooting, operator training and onsite customer support.
• Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
• Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University.

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Carl Peterson, VP Sales

• Over 30 years experience in sales, sales management, and business development in technology industries.
• 17 year veteran of Motorola Communications and Electronics, Inc., with significant leaderships roles in State and Local Government, National Key Accounts, and Commercial Markets sales divisions.
• Founder and President of Pacific Northwest wireless messaging company.
• Regional Vice President of Kirkland, WA, based Microsoft Gold Partner.
• Senior Business Development and C.E.O. positions with 3 venture backed start-ups based in Seattle, WA.
• B.A. Business Economics, University of California, Riverside.

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Kurt Wangenheim, VP Operations

• Regional General Manager for Insituform Technologies, Inc., the world’s leader in sewer and water pipeline rehabilitation. Led a diverse workforce of 100 people that rehabilitated over 1 million feet of pipe a year, generating over $60 million in revenue annually. He increased productivity by 37%, decreased safety metrics by 20% and quality dollars by 50%.
• Vice President of Quietflex Manufacturing, a $65 million manufacturer of HVAC duct work and supplies. While there Kurt reduced inventory by $500,000 and raw materials costs by over $1 million.
• As a Sr. Director at Enron, Kurt led a team people that was responsible for engineering value propositions on contracts valued over $1.8 billion encompassing 1500 locations nationwide.
• Past president and founding member of the Metro Atlanta Rehabilitation Contractors Association.
• Kurt graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering and graduated from the University of Portland with a Masters of Business Administration.

Alexander Weitz, Intellectual Property Manager

• Senior patent professional with 16 years of experience in the chemical arts. Drafted and prosecuted patent applications in chemical technologies, including electrical cable restoration, antifoams, resins, pressure-sensitive adhesives, coupling agents, lubricants, herbicide adjuvants, plastics additives and process aids, thermoplastic elastomers, copolymers and cationic polymerization.
• 20 years of background in polymer science and silicone technology including product development of materials for high voltage electrical distribution applications, including cable splices/terminations, self-amalgamating tape, plastic electrical tape and polyimide composites.
• Bar admission as Agent to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• Lead appeal of U.S.P.T.O. practice of rejecting "method of use" claims for novel compositions; initiated and coordinated successful brief to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit resulting in extended patent term. Appeal decision paved the way for subsequent inroads for "method of making" claims and change in U.S. patent law.
• Extensive PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) experience and global filing strategy.
• Devised winning strategies to obtain patents for commercially important products in crowded art fields, often taking advantage of extensive technical background to extract vital information from clients.
• B.S. Chemical Engineering, City College of New York.
• Ph.D. Materials Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.