Mitch Mandich, CEO
Rick Winsor, President and COO
Kevin Biehle, Vice President of Production
Mike Cate, Vice President of Procurement and Fabrication
David Gallaspy, Senior Vice President of Project Management
Arie Geertsema, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Larry L. Robinson, Vice President of Projects
Bill Schafer, Senior Vice President of Business Development
John Winter,Vice President of Process Engineering

	Mitch Mandich, Range Fuels' CEO, brings over 25 years of management experience gained during the incredible growth of the high-tech industry. Mitch's leadership of worldwide sales and support at Apple Computer provides an understanding of consumer perspectives and an innovative spirit that is much needed in the energy business. His wide breadth of software and hardware experience spans multiprocessing fault-tolerant systems, speech recognition, object-oriented application development, and desktop computing. Mitch has managed over 2,000 employees with annual revenues of over $8 billion, and has succeeded in turnarounds at privately held and public companies. Mitch's strengths are in sales and marketing, product strategy, and building winning teams. He was most recently CEO of Edify, has worked in the venture capital community, and managed large international sales and marketing organizations. Mitch received an MA in sociology from California State University and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.
	Rick Winsor, Range Fuels’ President and Chief Operating Officer, has developed, built, and operated billions of dollars of energy infrastructure projects during his 35 year career. With Range Fuels, Rick will guide the engineering, procurement and fabrication, project management, construction, and production functions. Prior to Range Fuels, Rick was Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer of Horizon Wind Energy and was one of the key executives responsible for leading the company to becoming one of the leaders in the U.S. wind industry. He has also held the position of Senior Vice President at Energia Global International, where he directed business development, construction, and operations for hydroelectric and wind projects in Latin America for five years. Previous to that, he held a wide variety of executive positions with TransAlta Corporation, where he worked for over 20 years. Rick has a bachelor’s degree (with Great Distinction) and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He is also a registered Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada.
	Kevin Biehle, Range Fuels’ Vice President of Production, has extensive experience in manufacturing platform development, cost management, and Lean Manufacturing techniques. With a unique balance of expertise in manufacturing, product development, and finance, Kevin most recently served as Vice President of Plant Operations at VeraSun Energy Corporation, a leading producer of renewable fuels. There, he was responsible for all aspects of operations for two 100 million gallon per year ethanol production facilities and operational guidance for three additional facilities in varying stages of construction. Before VeraSun, he served as a site manager and as an operations manager for nearly twenty years at BASF Corporation – a leading chemical company with annual sales of over $14 billion. During that time Kevin operated numerous plants ranging in size from $50 million to over $300 million in assets with several hundred employees at each site. Kevin’s expertise spans OSHA certification, ISO 9000 standards, Six Sigma techniques and Risk Management Planning. Kevin earned his BS magna cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla, and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
	Mike Cate, Range Fuels’ Vice President of Procurement and Fabrication, brings over 30 years of diverse experience in the engineering and construction industry – from oil, gas, and chemical process plants to industrial, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical plants. He is a business-focused engineer whose responsibilities have included engineering, purchasing, subcontracting, and project management in locations across the globe. Most recently, Mike was Corporate Functional Leader of Global Procurement at Washington Group International, a $4 billion company with over 25,000 employees. In this position, he supervised all purchasing of materials, fabricated capital equipment, and subcontracted services as well as materials management, including transportation and logistics. In addition, Mike sits on the Executive Committee and the Board of Advisors of the Construction Industry Institute. He is also a recipient of the Center for Public Resources Institute’s Outstanding Achievement Award for excellence and innovation in the application of alternative dispute resolution, dispute prevention, and litigation management techniques. Mike received his BS summa cum laude in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee.
	David Gallaspy, Range Fuels' Senior Vice President of Project Management, has a broad background in combustion and gasification technology, project management, power generation, paper and pulp, and business development. Gallaspy is an industry veteran who has had leadership responsibility with Eastman Chemical, Mirant, Southern Energy and others. Most recently, Gallaspy was CEO of TX Energy LLC, a joint venture between Eastman Chemical, DE Shaw and Goldman Sachs. Gallaspy holds a B.A. from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
	Arie Geertsema, Range Fuels Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, is a leading voice in the fields of gasification and coal to liquids. He was Managing Director of Corporate Research and Development and managed a team of over 400 R&D staff at Sasol, the largest and most successful gasification company specializing in coal gasification and gas-to-liquids production. Arie championed Sasol's efforts around coal technology, gasification, gas processing, petrochemical synthesis, biotechnology, and more. At CSIRO, as Manager of Gas Processing, Arie was responsible for developing gas-to-liquid technologies to monetize natural gas from the Northwest Shelf. Most recently as Director of the University of Kentucky’s Center for Applied Energy Research and as a tenured associate professor in chemical engineering, Arie focused his talents on catalysis, carbon materials, coal, biomass, and environmental technologies. Arie is one of the top professionals in his field and will be responsible for Range Fuels efforts in the development and production of green energy technologies. Arie has a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, an MS in industrial chemistry, and an MBA from Potchefstroom University in South Africa.
	Larry L. Robinson, Range Fuels Vice President of Projects, brings over 35 years of experience as a division manager and owner of engineering, construction, manufacturing, and contracting firms. His engineering career began with nuclear power plant construction. Soon thereafter, he became the owner of a commercial/industrial design-build electrical contracting company, which he built to a staff of over 400. He later became Vice President and District Manager of the Rocky Mountain Division of Fischbach and Moore, where he built the division from 70 to 1,100 people and moved it from a loss to a highly profitable division. In the late 1980s, he started his own company, designing, engineering, and manufacturing advanced instrumentation and control systems for water treatment plants, power plants, and a variety of other industrial plants and military installations. During this time, his company began to research, engineer, and manufacture various leading-edge environmental technologies, systems, and equipment in the fields of waste water, soil remediation, and gasification. This led to his most recent participation in the design and delivery of a 6.6 megawatt refuse-derived fuel (RDF) gasifier and related power equipment for a power plant in northern Italy. Larry earned his BS summa cum laude in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla, is now Curator Emeritus at the University of Missouri, and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
	Bill Schafer, Senior Vice President of Business Development, brings a wide range of energy industry experience to Range Fuels. Bill most recently managed a start-up that developed a high-tech coal mining system designed to address environmental and operational shortcomings of existing Appalachian coal mining methods. He has extensive experience in production, purchasing, and marketing in several areas of the energy industry. His experience in the coal and power industries provides excellent training for some of the critical issues involved in biomass ethanol production, such as: location optimization for feedstock and market access; competitive assessments focused on materials handling, operations costs, and product transportation options; risk management strategies through real options analysis; and long-term project investment analysis for capital-intensive industries selling into a commodity market. Bill received his BS in mining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
	John Winter, Vice President of Process Engineering, brings 30 years of experience in operating gasification plants, research and development, and process engineering, including process design, development, and optimization. At Range Fuels, Winter will be responsible for process development and definition functions for the Company's demonstration and commercial plants. Winter most recently served as Vice President of Engineering at Evergreen Energy, where he focused his efforts on coal to clean energy solutions. Prior to Evergreen, John held the distinguished engineering position of Chief Engineer-Gasification for GE Energy. Winter's experience spans research and development, running gasification plants, and process engineering for a variety of companies including GE Energy, Chevron-Texaco and The Dow Chemical Company. John holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from The University of Alabama and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Houston.