DOUG BENDER

President and CEO
HyPower Fuel Inc.

Doug has been the leading influence of HyPower Fuel Inc. since its inception in 1997. Prior to joining HyPower, he was involved as an owner, executive, general manager and consultant in a number of successful business start-ups in a variety of fields. Immediately prior to HyPower, he held a senior position with an automotive parts manufacturing company. While with this company, Doug was responsible for both manufacturing and marketing. In the first nine months of operations he produced the necessary product to generate sales in excess of $3.4 million.

HyPower retains a number of free thinking engineers and technicians with training from a variety of universities and colleges in Europe and North America. These staff members all have specialties which, when combined, have given HyPower a leading edge in new product development in the hydrogen field.

HENRY ZACHARIAS

Ztech Technical Inc.

Mr. Zacharias was trained in Instrumentation Technology at the Radio and Communications College in Toronto. He later upgraded his education with degrees and certificates from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, DeVry College and the University of Calgary (Computer Science). Mr. Zacharias has worked in the field of computers and instrumentation his entire career with such corporations as SNC Lavalin, Husky Oil, PetroCanada, Syncrude Canada (a consortium of oil companies such as Imperial Oil (Exxon), ConocoPhillips, Murphy Oil and PetroCanada in the Alberta tar sands) and Dow Chemical.

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS

Dr. Cliff Ricketts PhD

Dr. Cliff Ricketts has been a Professor at Middle Tennessee State University for 30 years. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Tennessee and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Dr. Ricketts has been involved with alternative fuel research since 1978. He has run engines off ethanol from corn, methane from cow manure, soybean oil, hydrogen from water, and has a solar/electric truck. Highlights include presentations at the 1982 World’s Fair on ethanol, exhibits at the Atomic Energy Museum in Oak Ridge, coverage of his work at the Smithsonian Institute, and 15 year holder of the Land Speed Record for a hydrogen vehicle at the Bonneville Salt Flats. He has also testified before the 109th United States Congress, Committee on Science and Energy. Dr. Ricketts is presently working on a plug-in flex-fuel hybrid system using a solar unit to generate electricity which he banks and from which he then generates hydrogen from water through electrolysis to run his internal combustion engine car. Therefore, the only two energy sources to run his vehicles are sun and water.


Elise Vajsabel BSc, PEng

Ms. Vajsabel is a graduate engineer from the University of Alberta where she specialized in environmental waste management. She has worked for such large corporations as Epcor (formerly Edmonton Power Corp.), Enbridge and Atco Gas in a variety of capacities over the past 10 years, most recently being Project Manager of a large water treatment facility.