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Thomas H. Stoner
Director
Mr. Stoner has served as Chief Executive Officer of Evergreen Energy, Inc since June 2009 and was named Chairman of Board in September, 2010. Since joining the Company, Mr. Stoner has redirected the strategy as a "green technologies" company focusing its resources on the commercialization of both K-Fuel and GreenCert. He oversaw the divestiture of certain assets of Buckeye Industrial Mining and various initiatives to improve the Company's balance sheet. Prior to joining Evergreen, Mr. Stoner served as CEO of Econergy International from 1998 to October 2008. Econergy International floated on the AIM under the London Stock Exchange in February 2006. Econergy was a leading independent power developer of renewable energy projects, including wind farms, small hydro, and methane fired power generation facilities throughout Americas as well as one of the leading carbon emissions traders under the Kyoto Protocol. Under Mr. Stoner's leadership Econergy developed the first methodology submitted to the governing body of the clean development mechanism (CDM), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Mr. Stoner led the sale of Econergy to GDF-Suez, one of the largest utilities in the world. Prior to Econergy, Mr. Stoner founded and served as president of the Highland Energy Group, a national energy services company (ESCO) providing demand side management (DSM) services to public utilities, such as the Public Service Company of Colorado, Duke Power, and Texas Utilities. Mr. Stoner led the sale of the Company to Eastern Utilities, formerly a NYSE traded public utility headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Stoner has served as a technical advisor in more than a dozen countries. Mr. Stoner holds a Masters in Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics and a BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Dr. Robert S. Kaplan
Director
Dr. Kaplan is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He has served on the HBS faculty for 20 years, after spending 16 years at Carnegie-Mellon, where he departed after serving six years as dean of its business school. An accomplished researcher, educator, consultant and author, including 12 books and 14 Harvard Business Review articles, Professor Kaplan focuses on linking cost and performance management systems to strategy implementation and operational excellence. The Financial Times has included Professor Kaplan among its list of Top 25 Business Thinkers and he has additionally been named to the Top 50 Thinkers and Writers on Management Topics by the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change in 2002 and 2003. His latest book, "Strategy Maps," co-written with David Norton, was published in 2004.
Richard Perl
Director
Mr. Perl joined the Evergreen Energy Board of Directors in June 2009. A holder of A.B., J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Columbia University, Mr. Perl has extensive leadership experience in clean energy development, carbon credits, clean technology and natural products.
Chester N. Winter
Director
Mr. Winter is co-founder and has served as the general partner of NewWest Capital Partners, an investment fund manager since its founding in 1999. Until a recent merger with an international advertising agency, he was chairman of Texture Media, a fast growing and web based interactive brand building media technology agency from 2004 to 2009. Mr. Winter currently serves on the boards of First Western Trust Bank, the University of Colorado Department of Economics and the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship. Previously, he was a member of the board of directors of Econergy International, one of the premier carbon trading companies after the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, and chairman of Highland Energy Group, a venture capital funded energy Management company. Mr. Winter served on the Econergy Board with Tom Stoner and Richard Perl. He served on the Board of Highland Energy with Tom Stoner. In addition, Mr. Winter served on the Boards of Directors of Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., U.S. Wireless Data and Soleron Corp., all public companies. He has also completed the owner/president management program at the Harvard Business School and eighteen volunteer projects with businesses in developing countries around the world.