Riggs Eckelberry — President and CEO

One of the inventors of the Company’s breakthrough technology, Riggs Eckelberry brings his veteran technology management skills to the alternative energy sector. As President and COO of CyberDefender Corporation from 2005 to 2006, he was instrumental in building the company and its innovative product line, helping to achieve initial funding and a public company filing (now on NASDAQ as CYDE). From 2001 to mid-2005, he helped launch and turn around technology companies as founder and President of TechTransform, a technology consulting firm. In 2004, he was a key member of the team that commercialized YellowPages.com, resulting in its sale for $100 million to SBC/BellSouth. In 2003, he helped make Panda Software a key player in the US market as the General Manager of its US unit. During the high-tech boom of the 1990s, he was responsible for the global brand success of the software product, CleanSweep; as Chief Operating Officer of MicroHouse Technologies, he drove record sales and a modernization of the company’s technology, helping to achieve a successful sale of the company to Earthweb; and as VP Marketing of venture-backed TriVida, he was a key member of the team that commercialized the company’s technology and achieved the sale of this technology company to BeFree, Inc. (now part of ValueClick: VCLK).

In January of 2011, Riggs Eckelberry was named to the Advisory Board of the National Algae Association.

Paul Reep — Senior Vice President of Technology

With more than 25 years of senior management experience in technology and engineering, Paul Reep has a proven ability for facilitating government and private sector partnerships, including a major multi-agency technology transfer initiative with the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Interior, Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The result of this work is still ongoing at the Department of Energy, where bio-energy is a key mission area.

Behind these accomplishments is a lifetime of engineering experience as a senior manager in the Department of Energy and at the Illinois Power Company, Mountain States Energy, Inc., Atomics International (Rockwell) and Lockheed Development Center.

A patent and licensing veteran, Mr. Reep holds four US patents as principal inventor in highly complex technology domains. He recently completed an assignment as Manager of Technology Advancement and Licensing at the Stevens Institute for Innovation at the University of Southern California, where he worked directly alongside researchers and scientists to identify and develop patent and licensing opportunities for USC inventions.

Paul Reep studied Geology and Petroleum Engineering at Moorpark College. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Administration Management from California Coast University, Los Angeles.

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