Biographical Sketches

Frank Alix is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Powerspan Corp, which he co-founded in 1994. Powerspan is a clean energy technology company engaged in the development and commercialization of proprietary technologies for the electric power industry. Frank has over 25 years of experience in energy related fields, beginning his career as a nuclear engineer at General Dynamics and later as a senior nuclear engineering manager at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Prior to assuming his present role at Powerspan, Frank worked as a venture capital investor where he directed investments in early-stage technology ventures. Frank is co-inventor on several of Powerspan's patents.

Thomas Altmeyer is Vice President, Federal Affairs for Arch Coal, Inc. He is a senior-level public affairs strategist and lobbyist for the Nation's second largest coal company before the Congress and Executive Branch Agencies. Responsibilities include: representing Arch's interests with the Congress and Federal agencies, five trade associations, and organizations impacting public policy; coordinating political contributions of Arch Pac, the company's political action committee; and working to accomplish company objectives on specific projects impacted by federal law and regulation.

Carl Bauer is Director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), a national laboratory owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. In this position, he oversees the implementation of major science and technology development programs to resolve the environmental, supply, and reliability constraints of producing and using fossil resources. This includes technologies for advanced coal-fueled power generation and hydrogen production; carbon sequestration; environmental control for the existing fleet of fossil steam plants; and improving the efficiency and environmental quality of domestic oil and natural gas exploration, production, and processing.

Bob Beck is the President and Chief Operating Officer of The National Coal Council, Inc. based in Washington, D.C. He has over 30 years of experience in the energy field, and is recognized as a leading expert on coal, electricity and environmental issues. His career includes building power plants, leading electricity policy-setting efforts on environmental issues in Congress and working as NGO on the United Nations climate change negotiations.

Bob Bessette has been president of the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners (CIBO) since 1995. Through CIBO, he represents the interests of America's industrial energy users and producers -- the industrial energy base of our country-- on energy and environmental issues, technology development and advocacy. In his capacity as CIBO president, Bob works very closely with the U.S. Congress, EPA and DOE, state government personnel, industry trade associations and others to promote its members' and the nation's industrial energy needs and objectives at the technical and national policy making levels.

Jacqueline F. Bird is the director of the Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) within the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority. OCDO supports the research, development and deployment of technologies, primarily in the electric power production sector, that can use coal and its byproducts economically and within environmental mandates. Jackie oversees and coordinates the office's activities, including its Technical Advisory Committee, and--along with OCDO staff--its annual projects solicitations processes, technology transfer open houses, its census of projects, reports, and events.

Phillip Boyle joined Powerspan Corp. in 1996 and is the company's President and Chief Operating Officer. Powerspan is a clean energy technology company engaged in the development and commercialization of proprietary technologies for the electric power industry. Prior to joining Powerspan, Phil spent 20 years with the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program as an engineer and program manager. Phil has been involved in the technical development of Powerspan's ECO technology since inception.

Ms. Jean Bustard is Chief Operating Officer of ADA-ES, Inc., an environmental technology and specialty chemical company providing products to coal-fired power plants. Ms. Bustard has been working in air pollution control research, development and product commercialization for over 20 years. She received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University, a Masters degree in Physics from Indiana State University, and her MBA from University of Colorado.

Steve Chalk is the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hydrogen Program Manager. Steve is responsible for planning and implementing President Bush's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative. He oversees an annual research budget of $225 million for technology development in hydrogen production, delivery, storage, and fuel cells. This includes hydrogen safety, codes and standards, and education activities.

Mr. Stuart Dalton joined the Electric Power Research Institute in 1976. Prior to joining EPRI he was with Pacific Gas & Electric evaluating new generation options (coal gasification and conventional coal), refuse firing, and NOx control retrofits, and with Babcock & Wilcox providing coal boiler service, pulp and paper mill service and startup. With EPRI from 1979-94 he headed the SO2 Control and integrated emissions areas. For the last ten years he has managed and developed strategy for broad areas of the advanced coal, fuels, economics and emission control R&D portfolio. He is currently Director for the Generation Sector at EPRI. Mr. Dalton has a chemical engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Victor Der is currently Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems within the Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Program Office. He is responsible for directing research and development of central power systems technologies such as gasification, advanced combustion and hydrogen turbines; distributed generation technologies such as fuel cells, fuel cell/turbine hybrids, and novel heat engines and compressors; emissions controls technologies; advanced research, and high efficiency, zero-emissions fossil energy technologies. He is also responsible for directing the large scale demonstration programs such as the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program; the Power Plant Improvement Initiative; and Clean Coal Power Initiative. He is also Program Director for FutureGen - a zero emissions coal-based research prototype plant.

Tom Feeley is currently the Manager of the Environmental and Water Resources (Innovations for Existing Plants) Product Line at the U.S. Department of Energy/Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE-NETL). In this capacity, Mr. Feeley is responsible for the strategic planning and management of DOE-NETL's research and development (R&D) programs in the areas of emissions control technology, byproduct utilization, and water quality and availability related to fossil-fuel-fired power plants.

William Fernald is the HQ Senior Program Manager for Domestic Sequestration Activities in the Office of Sequestration, Hydrogen and Clean Coal Fuels, U.S. Department of Energy. His responsibilities include developing, directing, and evaluating a comprehensive research, development, and demonstration program in domestic sequestration. This program is focused on making available innovative technology to economically separate and permanently store greenhouse gas emissions generated by the combustion of fossil fuels.

Dr. Woodrow Fiveland has over 28 years experience in researching combustion and the thermal sciences. Dr. Fiveland is currently Interim Director of Global R&D for the Boiler group and Director Power Plant Laboratories located in Windsor, Connecticut. At ALSTOM, responsibilities include managing a variety of product development activities on PC and CFB boilers as well as post combustion equipment, which include analytical, computational fluid dynamics and experimental work. For 26 years, he was employed by the Babcock and Wilcox Company, finally as Manager of the Combustion Modeling Section. The group at B&W was responsible for software development of multidimensional combustion codes used to evaluate multi-phase flow in boilers and burners.

David Gray is the Director of Energy Systems Analysis at Mitretek Systems a non-profit consulting company. His career interests include coal and natural gas utilization for advanced power systems, liquid fuels, chemicals, and hydrogen. Prior to working at Mitretek Systems he worked for many years in South Africa on coal to liquid transport fuels production processes.

Dr. S. T. Hsieh (ST) is a full professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Tulane University, New Orleans. Since 1997, he has been the managing director of the US/China Energy and Environmental Technology Center (EETC) funded by US DOE, EPA, and China's Ministry of Science and Technology as well as private sectors. EETC's Chinese headquarter is located at Tsinghua University, Beijing and a branch office in Shanghai. EETC has established an effective network of government-industry-academia; it is focused on promoting the US Clean Coal Technology transfer and commercialization.

In 1990 David Hawkins became Director of NRDC's Air and Energy Program. In 2001 he became Director of the NRDC Climate Center, which focuses on advancing policies and programs to reduce pollution responsible for global warming and harmful climate change.

Richard Lawson is currently Chairman of Energy, Environment and Security Group, Ltd. and vice chairman of the International Committee on Coal Research. He serves on the board of directors of the United States Energy Association and as vice chairman of the Atlantic Council. He is a member of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and the World Energy Council.

Kenneth E. Markel, Jr., is currently the Director for the Office of Major Demonstrations in the newly reorganized Department of Energy (DOE)/Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory--NETL (Morgantown, West Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sites). While in Morgantown, Ken has directed/managed various fossil energy and environmental management research, development, and demonstration activities. Most recently, in his position as Associate Director of the Office of Project Management at NETL, he oversaw more than 100 project managers responsible for the implementation of approximately 1,000 projects for the development of science and technology in areas such as advanced power generation; environmental control technologies; ultra-clean fuels; natural gas exploration and environmental technologies to clean up DOE's former nuclear production sites. In addition, Ken has worked as a systems and design engineering program manager at the U.S. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California.

In 1996, Mike Mudd moved to AEP Resources where he was a developer in the non-regulated utility business, responsible for the development of cogeneration projects in the US and Canada and IPP projects in Mexico. In 2002, he returned to the R&D arena with AEP, where in his current position Mr. Mudd is responsible for corporate R&D associated with energy supply technologies including coal, gas, nuclear, and renewable energy technologies. Mike played a key role in the analysis that led to AEP's recently announced IGCC project.

James Rogers, 57, has been CEO for almost 17 years-at PSI and now at Cinergy. Prior to the formation of Cinergy, he joined PSI Energy, Inc., in 1988 as the company's Chairman, President and Chief executive officer. Prior to joining PSI, he was Executive Vice President, Interstate Pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group. Before joining Enron Corp., Mr. Rogers was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (a law firm based in Dallas, Texas). He represented energy companies before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Department of Energy, various Congressional committees and federal courts.

Dr. Lee H. Spangler is currently the Director of Special Programs in the Research Office at Montana State University and director of the Zero Emissions Research and Technology (ZERT) Center, a collaborative involving DOE labs (NETL, PNNL, LANL, LBNL) and academic institutions (Montana State University and West Virginia University). He earned his bachelors degree in Physics and Chemistry from Washington and Jefferson College, his Ph.D. from Pittsburgh in Physical Chemistry where his molecular spectroscopy work earned him the Proctor and Gamble award, and completed a Director's Funded postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined the chemistry faculty at Montana State in 1987 and was a founding member of the Optical Technology Center (OpTeC) which he later directed.

Justin R. Swift is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs in the Office of Fossil Energy. His responsibilities include oversight of export and import activities for the Offices of Clean Coal and Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology; ensuring that international activities remain consistent with the strategic plans of the Office of Fossil Energy and the Department of Energy; establishing and maintaining liaison with international lending and other institutions; and planning and directing the Office of Fossil Energy's international activities. Mr. Swift also participates in the activities of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, a coalition of 16 nations and the European Union dedicated to research and development that will allow continued reliance on fossil fuels while curtailing production of greenhouse gases.

Barry K. Worthington serves as the Executive Director of the United States Energy Association (USEA), where he directs the Association's domestic and international activities. He has served in this capacity since September 1988. Previously, he served as a Vice President of the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation and prior to that served in several capacities with Houston Lighting & Power Company, now known as Center Point. Mr. Worthington serves on the Board of Directors of the National Energy Foundation , the World Environment Center and the US-China Energy Environment Center, as well as a Trustee of the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation.

Ben Yamagata is Executive Director, Coal Utilization Reseach Council and Member, Van Ness Feldman. His practice encompasses federal and state legislative and administrative issues in the areas of energy, environment, natural resources, international trade (technology transfer and independent power project development), and transportation-related matters. His special expertise includes representation before the legislative and executive branches of the federal government with particular emphasis on those federal departments, agencies and congressional committees with jurisdiction over energy, environment, natural resources, and transportation matters.