G. A. Ben Binninger, Chief Executive Officer, has over 30 years experience in the fuels and chemicals industry. Mr. Binninger's professional background includes leading both large and small technologically sophisticated process and service businesses, including up to a billion dollar global businesses for ARCO, Hercules and Rio Tinto Borax. He brings a combination of global management, strategic positioning, financial and operating expertise in industries such as chemicals, energy, materials, environmental, mining, and defense. Mr. Binninger has served as Director of KCET - Community Television of Southern California, Chairman of the Institute of Cooperation in Environmental Management, and taught international business management at UCLA. He also serves on the board of The Harvard Business School Association of Southern California. Mr. Binninger has a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College and a Master's in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.


Philip L. Lichtenberger, Chief Operating Officer, has over 20 years of experience in the energy, electronics, and communications industries. Mr. Lichtenberger has extensive operation management and sales and marketing experience and was an early founder of the company. Prior to joining Kreido Biofuels he was Vice President of Operations at Xylan Corporation where he played an integral role in the successful execution of the company’s IPO. He was involved in building sales from $20 Million to over $200 Million in two years. Additionally, he was the General Manager for Hewlett-Packard’s Video Products Group for five years with P&L responsibility. While working as the Associate Director of Research and Development at Sheaffer & Roland, Mr. Lichtenberger was responsible for the research, development and demonstration of alternative energy sources and management of energy systems as well as directing the S&R Environmental Research Laboratory on the campus of the University of Chicago. Mr. Lichtenberger gained sales and marketing experience when he was the key account manager at a Corning Joint Venture and was responsible for managing the Nortel and IBM accounts, the largest customers. Mr. Lichtenberger’s operations background includes III-V semiconductors, optoelectronics, microelectronics, and networking equipment. His technical background includes energy systems design and RF electronics and he has Bachelor degrees in Physics and Philosophy.


Larry Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer, has over 25 years of experience leading technology transfer efforts for companies such as ICI, Conoco/Dupont, Cargill, Betchel, UOP, BP, Chemstar and GE Osmonics. Sullivan’s professional background includes former Manager, Biodiesel Business Development for Delta-T Corporation; director of Crown Iron Works strategic marketing initiates for biodiesel and oilseed crushing integration technologies; and advisor in critical market negotiation for World Energy, part of Gulf Oil Group. He led Chemstar Products on starch chemical marketing, Cargill on novel genetic canola TMP ester base oils, and developed at Osmonics the market for new water treatment processes and products for oil and gas operations. Sullivan positioned Dover’s RPA refinery process business on hydrocracker feed filters with Chevron and UOP; assisted in the Bechtel UOP start-up with Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura hydrocracker. He developed new vapor phase corrosion inhibitor markets using soy methyl ester amidoamine technology for BP with Cortec Corporation in 2000. Sullivan led strategic development for Conoco and Dupont’s European integration efforts of refinery and petrochemical intermediates. He managed new technology for oil and gas drilling projects with ICI Petroleum in the U.K. and completed the RCRA hazardous waste planning for the EPA and the State of Texas. He began his career with Dresser Europe. Sullivan earned his BA from the University of Texas at Austin and MA from Arizona State University. He completed graduate school in Geosciences at Texas A & M University; earned his MBA at England’s Warwick University and Refinery Engineering at St. Catherine’s College of Oxford University.


John Philpott, Chief Financial Officer, has 20 years of financial and accounting management experience, with 12 years as a top-level executive. Prior to joining Kreido, Mr. Philpott was a partner at Aegis Advisors LLC, a business consulting company. For more than 10 years before that, he held the position of CFO, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary with Miravant Medical Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company engaged in drug and therapeutic laser research and development. He was also a Senior Manager in Auditing for Bio-tech, High-tech and Entertainment Groups at Ernst and Young. Mr. Philpott has a B.S. in Accounting and Management Information Systems from California State University, Northridge and is currently completing his MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA.


Alan McGrevy, Vice President of Engineering, has over 40 years of experience in the manufacturing and mechanical design industry and has been with Kreido Laboratories for 7 years. Mr. McGrevy has extensive management experience in the development of new technologies and equipment in the fluid transfer and processing industry. He is a major contributor to the Company’s intellectual property. Prior to joining Kreido Laboratories he was the Managing Director of Research and Development for Caco Pacific, one of Americas leading mold builders, where he was responsible for developing high efficiency hot melt conveyance systems for the plastics industry. He played a leading role in licensing his invention of a novel heating technology to the manufacturing industry. He also is the inventor of 11 issued patents in the plastics processing field for that company. Prior to that he was the Manager of Research and Development for Mold Masters of Canada one of the worlds leading Hot Runner manufactures. He has a "hands on" background in the tool making and machining industry and was originally a toolmaker by trade in England.