Management
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 (CYDE.OB). 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).
Brian Goodall, PhD — Chief Technology Officer
Brian Goodall brings a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years in Europe and the USA, in the petrochemicals, materials, renewable energy and algae sectors. Dr. Goodall first entered the algae biofuels industry as Vice President of Downstream Technology at Sapphire Energy from 2008 to 2010, where he was directly involved in all aspects of the algae-to-fuel value chain from algae harvesting and drying, to extraction, pre-refining and conversion into fuels (primarily diesel and jet fuel, but also gasoline and chemicals). Brian helped achieve the first US commercial demo flight using an algae oil blend (Continental Airlines, January 7 2009, Houston) and also the coast to coast run of the gasoline-powered “Algaeus” in September 2009. While Vice President of Technology Development at Imperium Renewables in 2007 and 2008, he was responsible for all aspects of new technology and led the team that delivered the first “bio-jet fuel” to fly on a commercial demo flight (Virgin Atlantic, February 24 2008 – London to Amsterdam). As Senior Scientist at specialty chemical manufacturer Rohm & Haas Company from 2002 to 2007, he built a world-class R&D team, built a strong IP portfolio, and raised $3.5 million in external funding for a new program. Earlier, Dr. Goodall served at B.F. Goodrich, where he defined a new strategic direction for the company resulting in the successful spinoff of electronic materials manufacturer Promerus, and at Royal Dutch/Shell, where he became Shell’s global expert in propylene polymerization catalysis within 18 months of joining the company. He holds more than 80 patents and has helped win federal grants and loan guarantees totaling some $130 million since 1995.
Scott Fraser — Vice President of Operations
Scott Fraser is responsible for transforming OriginOil’s technology into a viable product line, and leading the development of support services and best practices. As CEO of Global Cooling Solutions (now Assisted Energy Inc.), he took the local clean tech startup from concept to prototype and full product development in under 16 months. In the process, he was responsible for developing the company’s business model, obtaining funding and developing its channel strategy. The prototype progression itself, from concept, to bench scale, to industrial scale was accomplished in under 12 months using a progressive prototyping system that incorporates industrial scale longevity and results on mid-scale prototypes. Scott was also responsible for designing the company’s clean air compliance strategy with the California Air Resources Board and State and Federal Environmental Protection agencies for the product’s penetration into existing diesel emission control channels.
Fraser held a series of Channel Management and Senior Account Executive positions in high technology companies from 1991 to 2006. He was a key member of the team that executed the successful spinoff of Avaya from Lucent Technologies in 2000. At companies like Covad Communications, Nodus Technologies and Scientific Utilization Inc., his duties included developing, managing, selling, training and supporting solutions to customers, partners and resellers. Scott Fraser studied Business Administration and Physics at San Diego State University.
Paul Reep — Senior Technical Advisor
With more than 25 years of senior management experience in the high tech industry, 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.
He currently is a member of the licensing team at the Stevens Institute for Innovation at the University of Southern California, where he works directly alongside researchers and scientists to identify and develop patent and licensing opportunities for USC inventions.
Vikram Pattarkine, PhD —Consulting Scientist
Vikram M Pattarkine, OriginOil’s Consulting Scientist, has a distinguished career spanning more than 25 years as a chemical-environmental engineer with expertise in processes related to waste treatment, nutrient management, water quality, and renewable energy. He has extensive international experience covering research, consulting, and training. He serves on several prestigious committees such as the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Design Committee of the Water Environment Federation. He has authored chapters in manuals, peer-reviewed papers, and made technical presentations at conferences worldwide.
During its formative months, as OriginOil’s Chief Technology Officer, Pattarkine added outstanding value to the company by imparting scientific rigor to its technology development. Currently, he is charged with developing OriginOil’s wastewater-based algae production programs. Prior to joining OriginOil, Pattarkine was a senior vice president at Brinjac Engineering, Inc., an engineering design and consulting firm based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Before that he was director of process engineering at Columbia, Missouri-based Environmental Dynamics, Inc., a leader in the development, design, and manufacture of aeration systems for wastewater treatment. During the 1990s he led the Environment and Natural Resources Management consulting practice of Tata Consultancy Services, Asia’s largest consulting firm.
Pattarkine holds a PhD in environmental engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master of Technology in chemical engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is an adjunct professor of environmental engineering at the University of Missouri and has also taught graduate students at Pennsylvania State University.
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