Board of Directors
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Steven F. Gilliland
Executive Vice President – Operations, Synenco Energy Inc.
Mr. Gilliland is the Executive Vice President of Operations for Synenco Energy Inc., a Canadian oil sands energy company, where he is responsible for the company's operations and development activities. More >
Synenco's CDN $10.7 billion Northern Lights Project will produce 100,000 barrels per day of synthetic crude oil and will include all mining, extraction and upgrading process facilities, an airport, temporary housing for 1,000 and a permanent new town accommodating 1,200. Additionally, Mr. Gilliland is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Power Company, LLC, which is focused upon strategic power generation opportunities including greenfield and brownfield development, divestitures, and energy industry consulting. For over 25 years, Mr. Gilliland has held prominent positions in the energy sector. He spent nine years with Duke Energy Corporation, most recently as Senior Vice President-Asset Management for Duke Energy North America (DENA), where he was responsible for profit, loss, and project and portfolio management for the DENA's ownership interests in 14,000 MW of operating plants and 4,000 MW of projects under construction on 29 sites around the U.S.
Mr. Gilliland has also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Proler International Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange-traded public company involved in the recovery, recycling, and processing of metals and industrial wastes, Senior Vice President and founder of CRSS Capital Inc., having overseen development and asset management for coal, gas, wood and refuse-fired cogeneration projects and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Transco Power Company, where he was responsible for Transco's independent energy company. Mr. Gilliland holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton University and a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia.
sgilliland@newgenerationbiofuels.com
David A. Gillespie
President and CEO
Prior to joining New Generation Biofuels, Mr. Gillespie served as Vice President of Business Development and Asset Management of Duke Energy Corporation from 2001 to 2006. Duke Energy is New York Stock Exchange listed (DUK), Fortune 500, energy company with business units that have included regulated gas pipeline and electric utilities natural gas liquids processing, and domestic and international merchant energy. More >
While at Duke Energy, Mr. Gillespie led all aspects of Duke Energy North America's $3 billion, 200+ employee, 8000 megawatt generation business in the western United States and Canada. From 1998-2001 he served as a Senior Director - Asset Management of Duke Energy, during which he provided overall leadership for that company's merchant power projects in Connecticut and Maine. Prior to joining Duke Energy, Mr. Gillespie served in various capacities with The United Illuminating Company ("UIL") from 1982 to 1998. The United Illuminating Company is a New York Stock Exchange Listed (UIL) investor owned electric utility with annual revenues of $1.2 billion located in New Haven, Connecticut.
Lee S. Rosen
Chairman Founder and Private Investor.
Lee Rosen is the founder of New Generation Biofuels and has been involved in the financial and securities brokerage industry since 1980. He has worked as a broker dealer with a number of firms. Mr. Rosen has also been engaged as a business and financial consultant. lrosen@newgenerationbiofuels.com
James Robert Sheppard, Jr.
Director
Mr. Sheppard is the Managing Director of the J.R. Sheppard & Company LLC where his current assignment, is to arrange capital markets financing for developing-country infrastructure projects as part of a Demonstration Project financed by the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development.
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In the past, he has worked with the UN as a consultant responsible for studying ways to improve access to the capital markets for infrastructure projects in developing countries. Previously, Mr. Sheppard was a consultant on numerous assignments for The World Bank. Mr. Sheppard has held numerous high-profile positions that included Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Project Finance Group at Bank of America where he was specifically responsible for electric power, oil and gas, and supervised teams in London, Hong Kong, and Sidney. Mr. Sheppard holds a JD and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
jrsheppard@newgenerationbiofuels.com
John E. Mack
Director, Audit Committee Chair
Mr. Mack has over 30 years of international banking and financial business management experience and expertise helping industry leading companies to increases their revenue and build shareholder value. More >
He has managed offerings of over $50 billion of medium and long-term debt and common and preferred equity issued in public and private, domestic and international capital. Mr. Mack has served as Senior Managing Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Shinsei Bank, Limited of Tokyo, Japan For over 25 years, Mr. Mack served in senior management positions at Bank of America and its predecessor companies, NationsBank and NCNB, in Charlotte, North Carolina, including 12 years as Corporate Treasurer. Mr. Mack holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden Graduate Business School and received his AB degree in Economics from Davidson College in North Carolina.
jmack@newgenerationbiofuels.com
Phil Pearce
Director
Mr. Pearce has been a Principal with Phil E. Pearce & Associates, an independent business consulting firm since 1990. More >
He previously served as Senior Vice President and a Director of E.F. Hutton, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers and was closely involved in the formation of NASDAQ. Mr. Pearce has served as a Governor of the New York Stock Exchange and a member of The Advisory Council to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on the Institutional Study of the Stock Markets. He received his B.S. degree in finance from the University of South Carolina and attended the S.I.A. Graduate School of Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
ppearce@newgenerationbiofuels.com
