Mr. Francel has a financial, administrative, sales and communications background. He also has sales, operations and manufacturing experience in the field of alternative materials and environmentally friendly and socially responsible products. He has served as a Senior Advisor at an Advisory and Intermediary firm where he analyzed businesses to determine value and/or remedy efficiency, costing and strategic issues. Mr. Francel was bonded and licensed in the U.S. Securities and Insurance Industries for 12 years as a retail and institutional broker. He has held Series 7, Series 63, Life and Health, and Fixed and Variable Annuity licenses and has served at various capacities within the industry. Mr. Francel resigned from A.G. Edwards and Sons in 1997. Since, Mr. Francel helped to successfully grow an environmentally friendly alternative material company to an $850 million dollar market cap. Mr. Francel has served as an employee or a consultant to several companies providing Investor Relations, Public Relations, Media Relations, Funding and Sales & Marketing expertise. He has considerable experience with the "Environmentally Friendly", Organic, Sustainable and United Nations communities, including the Environmental Defense Fund, SustainableBusiness.com, Florida Green Building Coalition, Eco$mart, Inc. and The Rain Forest Alliance. His experience with and relationships in the United Nations, federal and state governments and business are invaluable resources and are helping to position the company globally and politically
Thomas Amon, Esq. - Director
Mr. Amon is Senior Partner of The Law Offices of Thomas G. Amon located on 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York. He is formerly a partner of Sokolow, Dunaud, Mercadier & Carreras. Mr. Amon graduated from Harvard College and the University of Virginia, School of Law. He maintains several areas of expertise. His primary practice areas include, mass tort, product liability, oil and gas securities fraud, shareholder derivative cases, securities, and general commercial. Mr. Amon's representative clients include Exxon-Mobil, Westinghouse Electric, San Paolo Imi Bank, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and Avante Holding Group, Inc. He has over thirty years experience in State and Federal Courts.
Jerry Paul - Director
Mr. Paul, a nuclear engineer and attorney, formerly served as the elected representative of Florida’s 71st district in the Florida House of Representatives where he served as Deputy Majority Whip, chaired the House Subcommittee on Environment Regulation and chaired the House Subcommittee on Environmental Appropriations. He is well-recognized both in Florida and Washington as a leading voice on energy policy and government’s role in energy transformation.
Mr. Paul formerly served as America’s Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Administrator of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Appointed by President Bush in February 2004 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he was responsible for coordinating all activities of the NNSA at 3 National Laboratories and 5 production facilities in the U.S. along with foreign offices in Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing and serving as the senior official at the U.S. Department of Energy mission at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) United Nations (UN) offices in Vienna, Austria (2004-2006).
Todd N. Tkachuk - Director & Audit Committee Chairman
Mr. Tkachuk was a co-founder of Peabody’s Coffee, Inc. During his tenure he served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, which owned and operated multiple retail locations and developed a USDA certified product that was distributed to more than 1,000 supermarkets. Mr. Tkachuk spearheaded a share exchange merger and was responsible for all SEC reporting and compliance activities. Recently, Mr. Tkachuk has acted as a private consultant in the areas of public company reorganizations, finance and operations. Mr. Tkachuk holds a B.A. in Business Management from Western Washington University (1984).
William Kilpatrick, Jr. R.P.H. - Director
Mr. Kilpatrick is currently the managing member of South Residential Enterprises, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company where he has overseen multi-million dollar residential development projects in Mississippi. He is a licensed Pharmacist working with the Indian Reservation hospitals in and around Philadelphia, Mississippi. He has served as a Consultant and Board Member for several publicly-traded and privately-held companies. He is a graduate from the University of Mississippi.
Bob Williamson, Plant and Production Manager
Mr. Williamson’s history spans thirty four years of diversified, high level experience in plant management, manufacturing design, production and personnel management. Over thirty-two years of that experience is with the largest and most profitable United States producer of passenger and freight elevators. His work experience was solidified in a manufacturing environment of “mass customization” and automated production methods to meet diverse customer specifications while minimizing costs. The work performed included the use of a broad range of materials, systems and production processes – including electronic, electrical, hydraulics and the fabrication of sheet and structural steel. Over the course of his career he has held several management positions in engineering and production departments. Engineering positions included manufacturing engineering, plant engineering, test engineering (electrical/electronics), and contract design engineering. Production positions included “focused” factory group management, plant management with P&L, and design production. Accomplishments include bringing several production factions from chronic past due status to on-time performance, the development of computer based office automation and information systems, turning a manufacturing plant from chronic losses to profitability, significant cycle time reductions in both front office and factory floor operations and significant productivity gains in both front office and factory floor operations.