About
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Investors
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Management
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Board of Directors
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Partners
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Board of Directors

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 of GreatPoint Energy. Mr. Mandell identified the original technology on which the Company was built, assembled the core engineering team, and led the company as Chief Technical Officer from inception until July 2007. 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% 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 $40 million to a current level of approximately $4.0 billion in 5 years.

Jason Ment — is the General Counsel of Citi's Sustainable Development Investments business, Citi Private Equity and Metalmark Capital, three of Citi's private equity investment businesses. Jason is also currently a board member of Poseidon Water, LLC. Prior to joining Citi, Jason practiced law in the M&A and private equity groups at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and McDermott, Will & Emery LLP. Jason is a graduate from New York University School of Law and Cornell University.

Mark Townley — is the Vice President of Strategy and Development at Suncor Energy, Inc. In this role, Mark is responsible for the development of Suncor's long term growth strategy, investment evaluation and the medium term business planning. He is also accountable for coordinating the technology development program within Suncor, which includes a specific focus on viable and effective gasification technologies. He joined Suncor's marketing department in 2004 and previously ran Suncor's pipelines business. Prior to Suncor, Mr. Townley spent over 20 years in the oil and gas industry, including with BP in a variety of refining and marketing roles in the UK, USA, and Europe. Mark is a graduate of the University of Cambridge in England and the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France.

Paul Hanrahan — has been a Director of AES since June 2002. At that time he was also appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Hanrahan was the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of AES where he was responsible for business development activities and the operation of multiple electric utilities and generation facilities in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In addition, Mr. Hanrahan was previously the President and CEO of AES China Generating Co. Ltd., a public company formerly listed on NASDAQ. He also managed other AES businesses in the U.S, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining AES, Mr. Hanrahan served in the U.S. Navy as a line officer on a fast attack nuclear submarine. In March 2006, he was elected to the board of Corn Products International, Inc. He has also served on the boards of other publicly listed utilities in Latin America. He is a graduate of Harvard School of Business and the U.S. Naval Academy.


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 B.S. in Management Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Cornell University.

Martin D. Considine — is Vice President, Technology, in Peabody Energy Generation Development Group and is responsible for managing Peabody's BTU Conversion activities. His main responsibility is to increase the utilization of Peabody's coal reserves in industrial applications, beyond conventional power production. Applications include utilization of clean coal technologies to produce syngas. Considine joined Peabody Energy after serving in various capacities at Chevron Texaco and Texaco for almost 28 years. He initially was in the crude and product Supply and Distribution Department, followed by a period as executive assistant to Senior Vice Presidents responsible for Texaco Canada and Caltex. Considine served as Senior Vice President in Texaco's Worldwide Power and Gasification Division, responsible for developing conventional power plants and gasification industrial plants, utilizing Texaco's proprietary gasification technology. He also served as Vice President of Texaco Development Corporation, the licensing subsidiary of Texaco, Inc. He continued in this same capacity after the Chevron Texaco merger. A graduate of Manhattan College in New York, Considine holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Chemical Engineering, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Pace University in New York.