IPG INNOVATIVE POWER - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Mechanical Engineering - Senior Vice President Engineering

Born in June 1929, Don has over 42 years experience in the installation, start-up, maintenance and training for power plant, particularly with regard to large commercial gas turbine facilities. He has installed and overhauled power plants in many parts of the world, provided expert power consulting services to large oil and chemical companies such as Amerada Hess, Dow Chemical and Esso Petroleum, and for three years operated a gas turbine plant in the United States, under the Rural Electrification Authority. Don was appointed Owners Representative for the Najoya Power Plant project in the Dominican Republic, which IPG co-developed with RRPV, with responsibility for overseeing all civil construction and electrical engineering contractors, the coordination between the civil contractor and the supplier of the heavy fuel oil engines, and for the overall installation, site testing and acceptance of the power plant. Don holds a BSME degree from Union College and is a graduate of the General Electric TCLA and Developing Manufacturing programs. Don and his wife, Trudi, are ordinarily resident in New Port Richey, Florida, USA.

Job Titles:

• Mechanical Engineering - Senior Consultant Project Engineer
• President of Fern Engineering, Inc

Hector is the President of Fern Engineering, Inc., Pocasset, Massachusetts, USA. Hector has extensive experience in the design, analysis, procurement and development of high speed, high temperature turbo-machinery. He has been responsible for the design of air-cooled turbine nozzles, blades, abradable shrouds, casings, gearboxes, shafting, piping and ducting. Hector has performed and supervised stress, high cycle, low cycle fatigue and creep analyses of turbo-machinery hardware using classical analysis and sophisticated 2D and 3D computer analysis methods. He is experienced with development and vibration testing, trouble-shooting, failure analysis and modification of turbine hardware. Hector holds a BSc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and has participated in a number of advanced courses in mathematics, thermal stress and rotor dynamics.

Jeffrey is employed as a Project Engineer at Fern Engineering, Inc., and is a process development specialist with solid technical understanding of both mechanical and chemical engineering topics. Jeffrey has experience in both power plant and chemical process plant operations, and participated in three first-of-a kind start ups. He has in-depth knowledge of coal, oil, and waste gasification and IGCC power plants. Jeffrey's expertise also extends to aerodynamics and system analysis, advanced power cycle analysis, and software development for monitoring and modeling performance of power plants. He has extensive knowledge in design, analysis and troubleshooting of solids handling systems, spray dryers, heat exchangers, high temperature particle filters, acid gas removal, and sulfur recovery systems. Jeffrey specialises in feasibility studies pertaining to the use of non-conventional fuels in gas turbine based power plants, and in troubleshooting existing non-conventional, gas turbine fuel applications. Included among his professional posts, Jeffrey provided technical support for the start up of a 2000 ton/day coal gasification plant for Shell Oil, which plant was part of an integrated 250 MW Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant. His duties included pre-operational testing and debugging of equipment and control systems, final review of safeguarding systems, operator training, writing operator manuals, and evaluating initial performance. Jeffrey also developed a computer model for the Electric Power Research Institute, for the steady state operation of an IGCC power plant using ASPEN flow-sheet simulation software package as a framework. He created models in FORTRAN for various sections of the plant including a numerical finite differencing scheme to evaluate radiant heat transfer in syngas coolers. The model was used to investigate the total system performance under a variety of conditions. Jeffrey has held senior engineering posts at Molten Metal Technology, Inc., Shell Chemical Co., Shell International Petroleum, The Netherlands, Shell Development Co., and as a Research Associate at Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering Department, High Temperature Gas Dynamics Lab. Jeffrey was awarded a Ph.D. and an M.S degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and holds a BS. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University, and a BA degree in Mathematics from Austin College. He is a member of ASME International Gas Turbine Committee on Coal, Biomass, and Alternative Fuels, and is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Fellowship. Jeffrey has published more than 10 Technical Papers on various subjects relating to his area of expertise, with an emphasis on Integrated Coal Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plants.

Job Titles:

• Senior Consulting Engineer Associate

Starting in 1966 as designer draftsman with Mirrlees Diesels, John worked his way up to Assistant Chief Engineer, Commissioning Manager and Project Manager (Special Projects). A specialist in Ruston, English Electric, Caterpillar, Jenbacher, Deutz, and Mirrlees Blackstone engines, burning a variety of fuels. Work includes feasibility study for industrial and occasionally marine power projects, contract/project management with a significant portion of operation and maintenance support. Expert reports are often commissioned to assist commercial settlements. Projects have ranged from construction and commissioning of several power stations that are standby to Nuclear, to rehabilitation and technical and management support worldwide. John was Project Manager for rehabilitation of power at Tanesco power stations in Tanzania from 1987 to 1990 under World Bank funding arrangements. Expertise in protection of the funding investment, on-site training, technical and management support, and plant condition monitoring. Worked closely with various government departments to develop renewable energy expertise in the UK and to support power projects in developing countries. John is a project manager for the British Government department DFID, a Director of Institution Associates Ltd. - a Helpline support company, for developing countries, and immediate and past President of the Institution of Diesel and Gas Turbine Engineers.

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Director

Born in October 1938 and educated in England and Switzerland, for the past 20 years Kenneth has been active in international finance. He has assisted in a number of structured acquisitions as well as private placements to both United States and European residents, and advised small European technology companies in the initial listing of shares on the NASDAQ Exchange in the United States. Kenneth is the principal of Jones Consulting, a Swiss based financial consulting concern, founded in 1988. Kenneth serves on the boards of a number of non-Swiss and Swiss domiciled companies, and has consulted to a number of companies engaged in a variety of service industries and manufacturing disciplines. Since its inception, Kenneth has been responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Company and has been primarily responsible for developing the Company's power plant co-development arrangements, alliances and joint-ventures, and for negotiating power plant contracts. He is a British subject and has been a permanent resident of Switzerland since 1979. email: K.Jones@ipg-power.com

Job Titles:

• Vice President

Philip is a Vice President of and the Manager, Aerodynamics and Thermal Systems, for Fern Engineering, Inc. He has extensive expertise in the disciplines of cycle analysis and design of gas turbine systems, combined cycles and co-generation systems. In addition, his experience extends to support of heat exchanger design for recuperation and heat recovery, and the provision of testing services for gas turbine performance and maintenance. Philip has provided development and customised software for gas turbine and power plant performance evaluation, diagnostics and integrated health monitoring systems. Philip managed the development of the EMAP software for gas turbine combined cycles for EPRI, and the PEGASYS software for gas turbines in pipeline gas compression service for GRI. He modelled and verified performance on large GE and WE combined cycle units at Florida Power & Light and HL&P. Philip was involved in gas turbine selection for combined cycle plants for PLM/Wallingford, Green Mountain Power Corp., PLM/Boylston and PLM/Danvers. Philip has published a number of Technical Papers, holds a BSc. (Mechanical Engineering) degree from the University of Connecticut and a MSc. (Aeronautical Engineering) degree from Ohio State University, and has conducted post-graduate studies at the University of Virginia, George Washington University and MIT. He is a member of the ASME Controls and Diagnostics Committee, a Registered Professional Engineer, Honors-Tau Beta Pi, is the recipient of the ASME National Undergraduate Award, and is a scientist at WADC/WPAFB for axial compressor research and at the United States Space Agency (NASA), Langley for unsteady flow research.

Job Titles:

• Project Manager
• Senior Consultant

Stephen is employed as a Project Manager by Fern Engineering., Inc., and has extensive expertise in the design of gas turbine, steam turbine and generator rotor mechanical design and structural analysis, and the dynamic analysis of rotor/bearing systems and turbine blading. His expertise also extends to failure analysis of turbomachinery, pumps, generators, motors, mechanical equipment, mechanical systems and large structures including buildings and wooden structures. Stephen's disciplines include fine element stress analysis, fracture mechanics and fatigue analysis of structural components. He is a developer of computer software for engineering analysis, and has designed testing apparatus and specified instrumentation and testing of mechanical structural systems. Stephen has a background in field and laboratory testing, analysis of data and diagnostics and correction of vibration problems in rotating machinery, buildings and structures, including the vibration monitoring and balancing of large rotor systems. Stephen is a graduate, and served as a Research Assistant in the Civil Engineering Department, of the University of Rhode Island, where he was awarded BSc. and MSc (Civil Engineering) degrees. Stephen is a member of a number of professional associations and was, among other posts, a Senior Engineer, Gas Turbine Rotor Mechanical Design, Thomassen U.S. Inc., Fern Engineering Division, a Project Engineer, Component Analysis and Testing, General Electric Corporation and a Structural Engineer, United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. He is a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Phi Kappa Phi. Stephen holds two US patents on Reserve End Turn Generator Design, and has published a number of Technical Papers.

Job Titles:

• Vice Chairman

Born in 1943, Joe has over 25 years experience as a senior executive responsible for international business strategy, planning, and marketing. Currently, Joe serves as Chairman Emeritus or AIMS Worldwide, Inc. (NASD OTC BB: "AMWW") and as a strategic consultant and advisor to private clients, including Arvida/St. Joe Company (NY Stock Exchange); Founders Service Corporation; and, UCI Web Group, Inc., and as Vice Chairman of The Communications Group, Inc.; and Neighborhood Marketing Institute, LP. Prior, Joe was a founder and a director and Executive Vice President / Chief Operating Officer of Businesship International, Inc., a $3.65 Billion (USD) multi-national, privately held, holding company with interests in information, education, distributed services and real estate. Prior, he was President and General Managing Partner of GlobalComm, Inc., a multi-national strategic planning, management consulting and financial advisory firm. Joe has served as President and Director of The Communications Group, the largest independent public relations, publicity, marketing-support and strategic planning company headquartered in the Southeast, United States. He has held senior executive positions in a number of publicly listed companies, serving as: Vice President of Marketing and Sales Worldwide of Visual Graphics Corporation (American Stock Exchange); General Sales Manager of Recognition Equipment, Inc. (NY Stock Exchange); and, Director of Industry and Government Relations and Standards of Control Data Corporation (NY Stock Exchange). Joe attended George Washington University and executive development programs at Harvard Business School, Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife in Staunton, Virginia, USA. email: J.Vincent@ipg-power.com

Job Titles:

• Engineer
• Senior Consultant
• Chief Engineer at Thomasson - Fern

William ("Bill") Farrell has been engaged, during the past 38 years, in the design of gas turbines for General Electric and Thomasson-Fern Engineering. He was intimately involved in the design and development of GE's most popular commercial gas turbines still in production today, including the MS6001, MS7000, MS9000 and 9F machines. Whilst employed as Chief Engineer at Thomasson-Fern, Bill led the design and development team for a 10,000 HP advanced inter-cooled recuperated gas turbine. He then returned to GE Aircraft Engines, where he initiated development of the LM6000 aero-derivative gas turbine. Bill holds 9 U.S. patents covering the designs on the MS3002, MS5002, Air Bottoming cycle and LM6000 gas turbines. In 1993 Bill received the Perry T. Egbert award, the highest technical award made by GE Aircraft Engines, for his contribution on the LM6000. Bill holds BSc.ME and MSc.ME degrees from Union College. He resides in Walton, New York, USA.