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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.
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