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Charles F. Call
Chief Executive Officer, Director
Mr. Call joined the Company as Chief Executive Officer and Director in November 2004. Mr. Call has over 30 years of broad management experience encompassing sales, marketing, plant management, general management and executive management roles in the automotive and electronics industries. His prior experience includes seven years (from 1997 to 2004) at Imperial Chemical Industries as General Manager of the electronic materials group and later General Manager of the specialty polymers and adhesives group. Mr. Call also served as President of JPE Trim from 1996 to 1997, a manufacturer of automotive exterior trim products supplying the major automotive companies. Before JPE, he served as President of Dexter Automotive Materials, a supplier of coatings, adhesives and acoustical materials to the major automotive companies. Mr. Call received a BS degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. |
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Stephen J. Golden, Ph.D.
Chief Technical Officer, Co-Founder, Director
Dr. Golden is the Chief Technology Officer of the Company and has been a Director since 1996. He is a co-founder of the Company and the developer of its technology. From 1994 to late 1995, he was the Research Director for Dreisbach Electromotive Incorporated, a developer of advanced batteries based in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Golden received his doctorate in Material Science at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England. He did extensive post-doctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Queensland, Australia in ceramic oxide and mixed metal oxide materials.
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Nikhil A. Mehta
Chief Financial Officer, Director
Mr. Mehta joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer in July 2008 and was appointed Director in August 2008. Mr. Mehta has more than 25 years of financial management experience in high technology and medical technology companies. His experience includes significant operational finance management in manufacturing companies, fund raising, several acquisitions and experience as Chief Financial Officer for companies listed on Nasdaq as well as AIM in London. Prior to joining Catalytic Solutions, from 2005 to 2008, he was Chief Financial Officer of Spacelabs Healthcare, Inc., a medical technology company and wholly owned subsidiary of OSI Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:OSIS). Mr. Mehta served as Vice President of Corporate Development for OSI Systems, Inc., from 2002 to 2005, where he participated in or led several acquisitions and the IPO of Spacelabs on AIM. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Mehta was Chief Financial Officer of Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc., a previously listed Nasdaq biotechnology company. Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc. was the subject of a Liquidating Chapter 11 Plan or Reorganization in 2003. Mr. Mehta also spent over 15 years in several financial positions with Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX). Mr. Mehta received an MBA degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor of Commerce from Bombay University. |
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Alexander (‘‘Hap’’) Ellis, III
Non-Executive Director, Chairperson
Mr. Ellis has been a Director of CSI since June 2003, and was elected Chairman of the Board in December 2004. Mr. Ellis has extensive operating experience in electric power and renewable energy. He is a General Partner of RockPort Capital Partners LLC, a leading venture capital firm that partners with clean tech entrepreneurs around the world. He has been a general partner in RockPort Capital since its inception. He has primarily focused on renewables, electric grid technologies, advanced materials and transportation and emission control technologies. Prior to the formation of RockPort’s first fund, he joined RockPort Partners, a merchant bank specializing in energy and environmental projects in 1998. In addition to Catalytic Solutions, Mr. Ellis serves on the boards of Deerpath Energy, EKA Systems, Inc. (owned by Cooper Industries plc — NYSE: CBE), ISE Corporation, Northern Power Systems, Powerspan Corp., Second Rotation, Inc., Southwest Windpower and William Gallagher Associates. In addition, he represented RockPort on the board of Comverge, Inc. (Nasdaq: COMV) from October 2004 to August 2007. Mr. Ellis received a BA degree from Colorado College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Non-Executive Chairperson and member of the Audit Committee and Remuneration and Nomination Committee of the Board of Directors. |
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Charles R. Engles, Ph.D.
Non-Executive Director
Dr. Engles has been a Director of the Company since January 2000. He has a total of 14 years of experience serving as a board member for U.S. public companies and has also been a board member of seven private companies. From April 2008 to October 2008, Dr. Engles served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of ThermoCeramix, Inc., an advanced materials company focused on electrical to thermal energy conversion. From September 1997 to March 2008, Dr. Engles served as Chief Executive Officer of Cutanix Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on dermatological drug discovery that he co-founded. From September 1994 to March 1997, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Stillwater Mining Company (NYSE: SWC) and, under his direction it completed an IPO on NASDAQ in 1994. In 1992, he organized the spin out from Johns-Manville Corporation (NYSE:BRK.A,BRK.B) and Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) of Stillwater Mining Company, the only United States producer of platinum group metals. From July 1989 until September 1994, Dr. Engles served as Senior Vice President of Johns-Manville Corporation responsible for corporate development and worldwide mining and minerals operations. Dr. Engles holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in operations research and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Non-Executive Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee of the Board of Directors. |
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Bernard H. (‘‘Bud’’) Cherry
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Cherry joined the Company as a Director in January 2008. Mr. Cherry is the Principal Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Energy 5.0 LLC, a privately held energy solutions company established in November 2006, that develops, finances, constructs and operates complex renewable energy production facilities. He has over 40 years’ experience in the energy sector. Mr. Cherry served as Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Northern Power Systems, Inc., a wind energy company from August 2008 to July 2009 and Chief Executive Officer from August 2008 to December 2008. In February 2007, Mr. Cherry joined the Board of Directors of Distributed Energy Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: DESC), a renewable energy generation and technology equipment manufacturer, and became Chairman of the Board in August 2007. In October 2007, Mr. Cherry was named Chief Executive Officer and served until August 2008, at which time he also left the Board. Distributed Energy Systems Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Cherry was Chief Executive Officer of the Foster Wheeler Global Power Group, one of the two major business groups of Foster Wheeler Limited (Nasdaq: FWLT), a provider of construction and engineering services, from November 2002 until June 2006. Prior to his tenure at Foster Wheeler, Mr. Cherry was a member of the senior management team of the Oxbow Group for 17 years. Mr. Cherry was the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Oxbow Energy and Minerals Group and played a key leadership role in the creation and growth of Oxbow’s global energy activities. Mr. Cherry began his career as a Nuclear Engineer at United Nuclear Corporation and holds a BS degree in Chemistry and MS degree in Nuclear Engineering, both earned at the University of Illinois.
Non-Executive Chairman of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee and member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. |
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