Management
 

Dr. Randell L. Mills
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO

Richard J. Barry
Director

H. McIntyre Gardner
Director

William R. Good
Assistant Corporate Secretary, Vice President - Administration

Merrill A. McPeak
Director

John R. Miller
Director


Barbara Nabial

Treasurer

Scott C. Penwell
Corporate Secretary

Sverre Prytz
Director

Jeffrey C. Petherick
Director

James K. Sims
Director

 


DR. RANDELL L. MILLS

Dr. Mills, Founder and principal stockholder of BlackLight Power, Inc., has served as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO since 1991. The Company, located in the Princeton, NJ, area, has developed a revolutionary source of energy, the BlackLight Process, which has as its fuel source hydrogen and is based on novel hydrogen chemistry.

Dr. Mills has authored eight books, participated in over 50 presentations at professional meetings, and authored and co-authored over 100 papers regarding the field of energy technology that have been published in or submitted to peer-reviewed journals of international repute. Dr. Mills has received patents or filed patent applications in the following areas: (1) Millsian computational chemical design technology based on Classical Physics (CP), a revolutionary approach to solving atomic and molecular structures; (2) magnetic resonance imaging; (3) Mossbauer cancer therapy (Nature, Hyperfine Interactions); (4) Luminide class of drug delivery molecules; (5) genomic sequencing method, and (6) artificial intelligence. A thorough description of the Company's technology and Dr. Mills' underlying atomic theory is published in a book entitled The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics.

Dr. Mills was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chemistry, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Franklin & Marshall College in 1982, and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from Harvard Medical School in 1986. Following a year of graduate work in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Mills began his research in the field of energy technology.

RICHARD J. BARRY

Mr. Barry was elected to BlackLight Power's Board of Directors in 2009.

Mr. Barry is the Portfolio Manager of Eastbourne Capital Management, L.L.C. Prior to forming Eastbourne, he was employed by Robertson Stephens Investment Management (RSIM) from September 1995 until March 1999, where he was the Portfolio Manager and Managing Director for the hedge funds now managed by Eastbourne.

From 1992-1995, Mr. Barry served as an analyst for Banyan Securities in Larkspur, California, where he provided in-depth equity research primarily for hedge funds. Prior to that time, he worked with Regal Asset Management as a portfolio manager and with the Feshbach Brothers in Dallas, Texas, as an analyst. From 1982-1990, Mr. Barry worked in the brokerage industry, starting as a retail Account Executive with Merrill Lynch, and ending as a Vice President of Institutional Sales with Lazard Freres in New York. Prior to entering the brokerage business, Mr. Barry spent two years as a Research Analyst with the Senate of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Barry graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University.

H. MCINTYRE GARDNER

H. McIntyre “Mac” Gardner was elected to the Board of Directors in 2010.

Mr. Gardner was the head of Merrill Lynch’s Private Client business in the Americas and also the Global Bank Group within the firm's Global Wealth Management Group until early 2008.  As head of Private Client Americas, Mac was responsible for the region’s extensive network of more than 600 advisory offices; private banking and investment services to ultra-high net worth clients; the group's middle markets business; investment and insurance products; distribution and business development; and corporate and diversified financial services.

For the Global Bank Group, Mr. Gardner was Chairman of Merrill Lynch Bank USA and responsible for Merrill Lynch’s consumer and commercial banking and cash management products.  This included distribution and sales of all bank products and services primarily delivered into the marketplace through Financial Advisors.  These activities encompassed retail deposit products and services, credit and debit cards, commercial cash management, residential mortgage lending, securities-based/small business/high-net-worth structured/middle-market lending, and community development lending and investing.

Mr. Gardner’s 13-year career at Merrill Lynch also included roles in strategy, Finance Director for the corporation, and as an investment banker specializing in high yield finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring.

Mr. Gardner has also served as the principal of a financial advisory services firm and as the president of two consumer products companies.  He serves on the North American Strategic Advisory Board of Oliver Wyman and he is President of the Board of Trustees at the Princeton Charter School.

A resident of Princeton, New Jersey, Mr. Gardner is a 1983 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion.

WILLIAM R. GOOD

Mr. Good joined the Company in 1991 and has served as Assistant Secretary of the Company since 1995.

Mr. Good has served as Vice President-Administration since 2000. He manages Company operations and oversees the financial and accounting reporting. While at BlackLight Power, he has held several other positions, participated in presentations at professional meetings, co-authored numerous publications, and is named as co-inventor on one patent.

Mr. Good was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College, and a Master's Degree in Management of Technology from a joint program sponsored by the Wharton School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania Engineering School.

MERRILL A. MCPEAK, GENERAL USAF (Ret)

General McPeak was elected to the Company's Board of Directors in 2003.

General Merrill A. McPeak is President of McPeak and Associates, a management-consulting firm he founded in 1995. He entered the U.S. Air Force in November 1957 and was a fighter pilot during his early years. He flew 269 combat missions in Vietnam. In 1967-68, he performed in nearly 200 official air shows as Solo Pilot for the USAF Aerial Demonstration Team, the "Thunderbirds". He commanded NATO's 20th Fighter Wing in 1980-1981, Twelfth Air Force in 1987-88, and Pacific Air Forces from 1988-1990. In the mid 1980s, he was responsible for the Air Force's forward financial planning and the overseas sale and support of Air Force equipment and training, at the time a $12 billion a year business. General McPeak was Chief of Staff of the Air Force from November 1990 to October 1994, when he retired from active military service.

General McPeak was for several years Chairman of ECC, International, a Florida-based simulation and training company. He has served as a director of several other public companies, including Tektronix and TWA. Currently, General McPeak is Chairman of the Board of Ethicspoint, Inc., a privately-held, leading provider of risk management and compliance software-as-a-service, Global Technologies (OTC: DGTC.OB), a manufacturer and marketer of medical imaging systems, Point Blank Solutions (OTC: PBSO.PK), a designer and manufacturer of high performance protective technologies, including body armor, and of Sensis Corp., a privately held manufacturer of military radars and civilian air traffic control systems. He is an investor in and director of several public and private companies in the early development stage.

General McPeak was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from San Diego State College and a Master of Science Degree in International Relations from George Washington University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City.

JOHN R. MILLER

Mr. Miller was elected to the Board of Directors in April 2009.

Mr. Miller is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Graphic Packaging Holding Company, an integrated provider of paperboard packaging solutions to multinational beverage and consumer products companies. He also serves as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Cambrex Corporation, a global supplier of goods and services to the life sciences industry. Mr. Miller is currently a Director of Eaton Corporation, a global diversified industrial company. He formerly served as a Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of SIRVA, Inc., a provider of moving and relocation services. Mr. Miller was a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for seven years and served as its Chairman during the last two years of his tenure.

Mr. Miller spent the bulk of his business career as an oil industry executive. He worked for The Standard Oil Company (Sohio) as a student in the cooperative education program while attending college. Upon graduation, he joined Sohio as a permanent employee and spent the next twenty-six years with that company. During the latter part of his career with Sohio, he served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of the company. Included among the many positions Mr. Miller held with Sohio was that of Vice President of Finance during the period the company was arranging for the extensive funds needed to develop its Alaskan crude oil reserves and to pay for its share of the cost of constructing the Trans Alaska Pipeline. He later served as Vice President of Transportation at the time the pipeline and marine network associated with delivering Alaskan crude to market was being put into operation. His post immediately prior to assuming the presidency was that of Senior Vice President, Technology and Chemicals. On August 1, 1980, he was elected President and COO and he served in that capacity until April 1986.

After leaving Sohio, Mr. Miller founded and served as Chairman and CEO of TBN Holdings Inc., a company engaged in resource recovery, and Petroleum Partners, Inc., a firm that provided management services to the petroleum industry.

Mr. Miller received a degree in Chemical Engineering with honors in 1960 and an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science in 1983 from the University of Cincinnati.

BARBARA A. NABIAL

Ms. Nabial was elected Treasurer of the Company in 2008.

Ms. Nabial joined the Company in 2005 and has served as the Controller since January 2007.

Ms. Nabial worked in the public accounting sector for 10 years. Ms. Nabial served as a Senior Audit Manager with Deloitte & Touche for a wide variety of public and privately held organizations, including companies in the investment, utility, college and university, and manufacturing industries. She achieved designation as a National Specialist in the Investment Company sector, and the College and University sector.

Ms. Nabial is also active in the community and has served on several non-profit boards of directors as President and Treasurer.

Ms. Nabial was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Accounting from Moravian College.

SCOTT C. PENWELL

Mr. Penwell was appointed Corporate Secretary of the Company in 1997.

He is a shareholder in the law firm of Stevens & Lee, P.C., Harrisburg, PA. Mr. Penwell's areas of concentration include corporate, commercial, and securities law.

Mr. Penwell is a former member of the Board of Trustees of The Emerald Mutual Funds and Legacy Bank, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries, and Sting Communications, a licensed broadband carrier.

Mr. Penwell is a Life Fellow in the American Bar Foundation. He is a Past Chairman of the Business Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and a former member of the Attorney Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Securities Commission and the Attorney Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Corporation Bureau.

Mr. Penwell was awarded a Bachelor's Degree from Rutgers University, his Master of Arts Degree in English from Villanova University, and his Juris Doctorate Degree, cum laude, from Temple University School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Temple Law Review.

JEFFREY C. PETHERICK

Mr. Petherick was elected to BlackLight Power's Board of Directors in 2009.

Mr. Petherick is the Founding Partner and Portfolio Manager of NorthPointe Capital (Institutional Investment Management). Prior to forming NorthPointe, from 1990 to 1999, he was Portfolio Manager of the Loomis Sayles Small Cap Fund, Loomis Sayles & Company. From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Petherick was Manager of Pension Investments, Masco Corporation.

Since 2005, Mr. Petherick has served on the Board of Trustees, Albion College, Albion Michigan, and on the Board of Directors, Treasurer, CEM-USA, Troy, Michigan, a non-profit building and sustaining orphanages and hospitals in India.

Mr. Petherick is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He received his BA from Albion College and his MBA from the University of Michigan.

SVERRE PRYTZ

Sverre Prytz was elected to the Board of Directors in April 2010.

Mr. Prytz is a Senior Vice President at BW Group, one of the world's leading and private maritime groups headquartered in Singapore.  BW is the merger of Bergesen d.y. and World-Wide Shipping and today owns and operates the world's largest fleet of gas carriers. BW is also a leading player in the transportation of crude, as well as a technology provider to the oil industry through BW Offshore.  Based in Singapore, Mr. Prytz is responsible for BW Group's strategy and growth, as well as the LNG business, which represents $2.5 billion of shipping assets.

Prior to BW, Mr. Prytz spent seven years at McKinsey where he was one of the leaders in the global chemicals practice.  He later joined DuPont where he served in various management roles including as global head of strategy for the Performance Materials platform; the head of strategy, M&A, and BD for DuPont Asia-Pacific based in Shanghai; and as the head of the Hong Kong-based Advanced Fiber Systems division (KevlarR and NomexR).  Mr. Prytz was recently also the head of the operating group of the second largest Asia-based hedge fund, ADM Capital, where he led their due diligence and portfolio company performance improvement efforts.

Mr. Prytz was awarded a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1995 an MBA (Finance) from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.

JAMES K. SIMS

Mr. Sims was elected to the Board of Directors in April 2009.

Mr. Sims is Chairman and Founder of GEN3 Partners, Inc. He founded GEN3 Partners in 1999 with Michael Treacy to focus on the business of corporate innovation. Through his successful prior ventures, Mr. Sims understood the value of innovation and sought to build a company based on science and technical expertise to create a standard for innovation that could be easily deployed and widely adopted by industry.

With his expertise in consulting, intellectual property and extensive background in the venture community, Mr. Sims expanded GEN3 Partners by creating a wholly owned subsidiary, GEN3 Ventures designed to create high value companies based on the innovation discipline of GEN3 Partners - the GEN3: Innovation Discipline (G3:ID). To better serve the demands of growing companies, Mr. Sims also serves as Managing Partner in GEN3 Capital, LP, a fund established to mine for technology rich opportunities for building growth-based businesses.

Before GEN3, Mr. Sims founded Cambridge Technology Partners Inc., Cambridge, MA, in 1991 and led the firm to $625 million in annual revenue, 4,500 employees and international prominence. Mr. Sims and CTP, a consulting and systems-integration company, pioneered the approach of guaranteeing companies and government agencies the development of computer systems on a fixed-price, fixed-time basis. CTP was purchased by Novell, Inc. in 2001. Prior to CTP, Mr. Sims founded Concurrent Computer Corp. and as Chairman, President and CEO built it to $340 million in annual revenue and 3,500 employees. Concurrent Computer Corp. was the market leader in real-time information systems.

Mr. Sims was elected to the EDS Board of Directors in September 2006, and to the Thru, Inc. Board of Directors in January 2008. He has served as Chairman and CEO of Airgain, Inc. since November 2004; Chairman of American E-Pay, Inc. since February 2005; Chairman of Groxis, Inc. since November 2004; Chairman of GenXL, Inc. since September 2006; Chairman of Leveler, LLC since December of 2007; and Chairman of Specialists on Call, Inc. since December of 2007. He was Chairman of the Board of RSA Security Inc., a provider of online identity and digital asset security services, from June 2003 to September 2006 and Vice Chairman from October 2002 to June 2003. Previously he was director of Enterasys Networks, Inc. from June 2004 to March 2005.


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