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Directors
| 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 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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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 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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