| Thomas Granville |
Inside Director
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| Chief Executive Officer |
AxionPower Committee Membership:
Technology Committee
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| Thomas Granville is our Chief Executive Officer and also sits on the board. He served as our board chairman from January 2004 until he accepted the CEO position in April 2005. Mr. Granville has 27 years of experience as a CEO and general partner in contracting, service, real estate and other start up investment entities. He was a former 10-year past president of the National Elevator Industry Inc., a national trade and labor bargaining association. Mr. Granville also served 15 years as treasurer, 10 years as the president of the National Elevator Industry Inc., a trade association that represents elevator manufacturers and contractors where his duties included labor negotiations for national contracts and oversight duties to a $2.3 billion national pension fund. Mr. Granville is a 1967 graduate of Canisus College where he received a BA in Business Administration. |
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| D. Walker Wainwright |
Independent Director
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| Director |
AxionPower Committee Membership:
Audit Committee
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D.Walker Wainwright has over 30 years' investment banking, banking and consulting experience and has served as a managing director of Smith Barney and Kidder Peabody. Previously, Mr. Wainwright served as Assistant to the President of J. Henry Schroder Bank & Trust Company and as an Assistant Representative in Chemical Bank's Beirut office. His relationship network covers a broad spectrum of domestic and international investment bankers, portfolio managers and institutional investors. Since 2003, Mr. Wainwright has served as chief executive of Wainwright & Co. LLC., an independent financial advisory firm and investment manager that currently serves as manager or advisor for hedge fund portfolios that have an aggregate value of $200 million. Previously, Mr. Wainwright served as an independent investment banker and consultant to smaller companies, venture capitalists and hedge funds. Mr. Wainwright is a graduate of Stanford University (A.B. 1972) and Columbia University (M.B.A. 1976). He has been involved in a broad range of civic activities, including serving as a Trustee of the Buckley School and on the boards of the American Australian Association and New Zealand American Chamber of Commerce.
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Robert Averill is an independent director who has served on our board since February 2004. Previously, he co-founded three orthopedic companies that were later sold to Zimmer Holdings, Stryker Corporation and 3M Corporation. In addition, he holds 28 patents on a variety of orthopedic medical devices and materials and he is the co-author of several publications in the field of orthopedics. Mr. Averill holds two degrees from the Newark College of Engineering (BS-Mechanical Engineering and MS-Engineering Management).
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| Glenn Patterson |
Independent Director
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| Director |
| Director Since: 2004 |
AxionPower Committee Membership:
Compensation Committee
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Glenn Patterson is an independent director who has served on our board since February 2004. Mr. Patterson was formerly president of Oregon Electric Group until his retirement in October 2004. During his tenure as president, Oregon Electric grew from $16 million in sales in 1994 to $127 million in sales in 2000. Mr. Patterson graduated summa cum laude from Willamette University (BS-Economics) in 1975.
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| Stanley A. Hirschman |
Independent Director
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| Director |
| Director Since: 2006 |
AxionPower Committee Membership:
Audit Committee
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Stanley A. Hirschman is an independent director who has served on our board since June of 2006 annual meeting for a three-year term. Mr. Hirschman is President of CPointe Associates, Inc., a Plano, Texas executive management and consulting firm that specializes in solutions for companies with emerging technology-based products and is well versed in the challenges of regulated corporate governance. Mr. Hirschman is Chairman of the Board of Bravo Brands, Inc., an independent director of Dalrada Financial Corporation and former chairman of Mustang Software, Inc. While at Mustang Software, Mr. Hirschman took a hands-on role in the planning and execution of the strategic initiative to increase shareholder value resulting in the successful acquisition of the company by Quintus Corporation. Mr. Hirschman is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and participates regularly in the KMPG Audit Committee Roundtable. He is active in community affairs and serves on the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers.
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| Dr. Howard K. Schmidt |
Independent Director
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| Director |
| Director Since: 2005 |
AxionPower Committee Membership:
Audit Committee
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Dr. Howard K. Schmidt is an independent director who joined our board in April 2005. Dr. Schmidt is also presently employed as the executive director of the Carbon Nanotechnologies Laboratory (the "CNL") at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Dr. Schmidt is an expert in the field of carbon nanotechnology and single-wall carbon nanotubes. In 1989, Dr. Schmidt founded SI Diamond Technologies, Inc., a company that received the prestigious R&D 100 Award from Research and Development Magazine in 1989; went public in 1992; and recently changed its name to Nano-Proprietary, Inc. Dr. Schmidt holds two degrees from Rice University (BS-Electrical Engineering, 1980 and PhD-Chemistry, 1986).
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| Michael Kishinevsky |
Independent Director
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| Director |
| Director Since: 2005 |
AxionPower Committee Membership:
Compensation Committee
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Michael Kishinevsky has been an independent director since June of 2005. Mr. Kishinevsky is a Canadian lawyer who has been principally engaged in the practice of corporate and commercial law for 10 years. For the last five years, Mr. Kishinevsky served as general legal counsel for C&T, the original developer of our technology. Mr. Kishinevsky is a 1989 graduate of the University of Calgary (BS in Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology and BS in Psychology) and a 1993 graduate of the University of Ottawa School of Law. Mr. Kishinevsky was called to the bar in the Ontario courts in 1995 and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
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| David Gelbaum |
Independent Director
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Mr. David Gelbaum is a noted private investor in environmental oriented funds and trustee of The Quercus Trust Fund (well known for regularly supporting clean technology and “green earth” initiatives). Mr. Gelbaum is the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Entech Solar Inc. and a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee. He performed quantitative modeling for stock price returns and derivative securities for TGS Management, and for 17 years he worked at Oakley & Sutton in a similar capacity.
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| David Anthony |
Independent Director
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| Director |
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| Mr. David Anthony, an experienced entrepreneur, venture capitalist and educator, is Managing Director of New York based 21 Ventures. Mr. Anthony has held the managing director position with the venture capital firm since 2003. He also serves on the boards of Agent Video Intelligence, 3GSolar, BioPetroClean, Juice Entertainment, a developer of multimedia brands. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from George Washington University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In 2002, Mr. Anthony was awarded the Distinguished Mentor of the Year Award from Columbia University. |
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| Joseph Bartlett |
Independent Director
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| Director |
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| Mr. Joseph Bartlett is counsel to The Quercus Trust, serves on the boards of directors of a number of clean technology companies and has practiced corporate and securities law since 1985. From September 2004 until August 2008, he was a partner of Greenberg Glusker LLP I Los Angeles. From September 2000 until September 2004 he was a partner at Spolin Silverman Cohen and Bartlett. |
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