Andrew Perlman – is Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of GreatPoint Energy. Mr. Perlman is an entrepreneur who has co-founded six venture-backed companies in four separate industries.  Prior to founding GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Perlman served as the chief executive officer and co-founder of Coatue Corporation, a microelectronics company developing novel polymer materials for use in the semiconductor industry, where he orchestrated the merger of Coatue Corp. with Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), the world’s largest manufacturer of flash memory chips, in June 2003. In 1995, Mr. Perlman founded Cignal Global Communications, a pioneer in voice over data network communications, and served as president until 2000.

Aaron Mandell – is Co-Founder & Senior Vice President of GreatPoint Energy. Mr. Mandell indentified the original technology on which GreatPoint Energy was built, assembled the core engineering team, and led the company as chief technical officer from inception until July 2007. He also serves on the company’s board of directors. In addition to GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Mandell co-founded GreatPoint Ventures, a specialized investment firm focused on early stage commercialization of new, cutting-edge technologies.

Ray Lane – is a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth. Before joining KPCB, Mr. Lane was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation.

Raj Atluru – is Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson and focuses on emerging clean technologies, business and consumer services, and wireless technologies. Mr. Atluru is one of the leading venture capitalists focused on the CleanTech sector and has over 14 years of venture capital, private equity, and leveraged finance experience both domestically and in emerging markets with a specific focus on India.

Bill Wiberg – is a General Partner at Advanced Technology Ventures and focuses on investments in the cleantech, wireless, telecommunications, and IT sectors. He was President of Lucent’s Cellular and PCS Wireless Networks division from 1997 to 2000, and in his final year, he grew the business by 38 percent to $5 billion in revenue.

George Crookshank – is an Executive Advisor to the Company and has over 25 years of finance experience in the oil & gas industry, including 17 years as the Chief Financial Officer of public companies. Most recently, Mr Crookshank was the CFO of OPTICanada where he oversaw growth from an initial capitalization of $40million to a current level of approximately $4.0 billion in 5 years.

Andrew de Pass – Mr. de Pass joined Citicorp in April 1996 and Citi Venture Capital International (“CVCI”) in January 1997. In April 2007, Mr. de Pass was appointed head of Citi Alternative Investments’ (“CAI”) newly created standalone investment unit Sustainable Development Investments (“SDI”). Mr. de Pass is currently a board member of GreatPoint Energy, Inc. and of another SDI-funded company active in the water industry. While at CVCI, Mr. de Pass led the investments in Sindicatum Carbon Capital and Permolex International - Northeast Biofuels. Mr. de Pass is also on the advisory board of the Cleantech Venture Network and the Chrysalix Clean Energy Fund. Prior to his appointment to SDI, Mr. de Pass also completed private equity investments in the telecommunications, media, retail, packaging and food sectors. Mr. de Pass was employed at Morgan Stanley from 1989 to 1996, where he held positions in the Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring, Corporate Finance, Equity Capital Markets (Hong Kong) and International Equity Derivatives Departments.

Mike MacSween – is Vice President of Strategy and Development for Suncor Energy Inc., a position he has held since July, 2006.  Previously, he held a variety of technical and operational management positions at Suncor’s oil sands operation in Fort McMurray, Alberta. From 2004-2006, Mr. MacSween was Vice President – Upgrading overseeing the operations of a 250,000 barrel/day integrated process facility with a value of over $10 billion and producing over 10 percent of Canada’s oil supply.  He has over 17 years experience in the oil and gas industry including previous positions at Betz Process Chemicals Inc. and Shell Canada Inc. Mr. MacSween graduated from UNB with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering and obtained an MBA from Queens University.

Dave Gee – is Executive Vice President of the AES Company and President of their North America group. In that role he oversees approximately 20 generation plants and is also Chairman of Indianapolis Power and Light. Mr. Gee joined AES in 2004 and led AES's corporate strategy group. He spent 15 years at McKinsey & Company working on a wide range of issues across the energy industry. Prior to joining AES he was VP Strategic Planning at PG&E Corporation during the California energy crisis. He also worked for 6 years at Baker Hughes, an oilfield services company. He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in Chemical Engineering with highest distinction from the University of Virginia.

Board Observers

Vinod Khosla – founded Khosla Ventures in 2004 which offers venture assistance, strategic advice and capital to entrepreneurs. Mr. Khosla was formerly a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and also founder of Sun Microsystems.

Ken Bromfield – is commercial director of the Energy business for The Dow Chemical Company. Mr. Bromfield currently leads all energy commercial activities at Dow sites throughout the U.S. Mr. Bromfield began his career in 1990 with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) as a consultant. He then became operations manager at Mascon, an international trading company. In 1996, he joined Union Carbide and after experiencing a series of assignments in various businesses, he was named global product manager for the Ethanolamines and Ethyleneamines businesses in 1999. After the merger acquisition of Dow and Union Carbide in 2001, Mr. Bromfield was named global product marketing manager for the Ethanolamines & Isopropanolamines businesses at Dow. Mr. Bromfield earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Cornell University.

Rick Bowen – is Senior Vice President BTU Conversion and Strategic Planning for Peabody Energy Inc. In addition to managing all corporate strategic planning functions for the organization, he oversees all technology development activities related to coal and its beneficial uses. Mr. Bowen joined Peabody in 2004 as President of Peabody's Generation Group. Prior to Peabody he spent 17 years at Dynegy Inc. in various capacities, including Power Generation, Marketing and Trade, Asset Management, Development, Engineering and Acquisitions; completing his tenure as Executive Vice President, Marketing and Trade. Mr. Bowen holds a Masters in Finance from the Bauer School of Business at the University of Houston where he also received his undergraduate in Business Administration.