Maurice Strong, Director
Founding Chairman and ex-CEO of PetroCanada, now the 9th largest oil company in North America and former Chairman of Ontario Hydro, North America’s largest utility and ex-Vice Chairman of Tosco Corporation. He is currently Senior Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Chairman of the Earth Council and on the International Advisory Board of Toyota Motor Corporation. He is a former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Senior Adviser to the President of the World Bank.
Brian W. G. Marcotte, Director
Brian Marcotte has over 34 years of experience in the oil and gas industry ranging from technical positions to executive management. During his career with Unocal Corporation, he held the positions of: President Unocal Thailand, President Unocal Indonesia, President Unocal Netherlands, Corporate Vice President Public Policy, Health Environment and Safety, Vice President Unocal US Western Region, Vice President of Technology and Asset Management. He recently served as Chairman of the Unocal Foundation.
Mr. Marcotte has also served as President of the Board for the Indonesian Petroleum Association, Vice Chairman of the Petroleum Institute of Thailand’s Council of Trustees, member of the Thailand Development Research Institute, the Sasin Graduate School of Chulalongkorn University Advisory Council and he served as a board member of the Kenan Institute Asia. He was a member of the Board for the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation (Fulbright Scholarship Foundation) and received the American Community Council Award for Community Service in The Netherlands. He has served on the board of San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield California and was recently honored (2005) as a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Based on his involvement in global conservation issues, Mr. Marcotte will continue to chair the International Leadership Council of The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s largest environmental conservation groups.
John Sibert, III, Director
Managing Director of Global Financial Group, ex-Manager of Research and Development for Atlantic Richfield. Division Administrator of the California Institute of Technology, Trustee of Claremont Graduate University, Consultant to NASA and Jet Propulsion Lab., Board of Governors of the National Coastal Resources Institute, Advisory Board of the Oceans and Atmosphere Association. Ex-Executive Director of the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation. Ph.D. University of California, San Diego.
Frank Easterly, Director
CEO and Chairman of the Board of MetalSpray International. MetalSpray has offices in 14 countries and services oil and refinery facilities, electric power plants and papermaking industries around the world. Chairman of Thermal Coating Services, Inc. Mr. Easterly is on the Board of Directors of E. Angus Powell Endowment for Economic Education, The Maymount Foundation and The Alex de Tocqueville Society. He has been a Member of the Royal and Ancient of Scotland St. Andrews since 1981. He has an MBA from the University of Virginia.
C. Paul Davis, Director
C. Paul Davis brings over 35 years of business experience in the computer industry and other technology fields such as conductive polymers. Mr. Davis has served on seven prior Boards of Directors and holds six patents. He has successfully started seven companies.
Mr. Davis has spent much of his business career working with the top management of large companies, including Polaroid, NCR, Burroughs, 3M, Neste Og, and others. A major joint venture with Polaroid Corporation resulted in a state-of-the-art floppy disk manufacturing facility in California and an agreement to market a co-label Polaroid-PerfectData line of high-end floppy disks on a global basis. PermaByte Magnetics, a company founded by Mr. Davis in 1984, was key to this joint venture. Mr. Davis took one of his companies, PerfectData Corporation, through a successful public offering in 1983. He has built and sold several of his start-up companies and he has engaged in extensive business negotiations in the United States, the Far East and Europe.
In the early 1980’s, Mr. Davis was the Founder and Co-Chairperson of SO/CAL/TEN, a business organization for executives in the high-tech industry in Southern California. Later, when he moved to Santa Barbara he was Co-Founder of the MIT Forum on the Central Coast of California.
Kenneth J. Gerbino, Chairman
Head of Kenneth J. Gerbino & Company, an investment management firm now in its 33rd year. The company manages the Gerbino Gold Group, LLC as well as private equity accounts. Previously a Director of the Los Angeles Unified School District Annuity Reserve Board, Athena Gold Corporation, the Apple School, and Fortress Technologies, Inc. Former co-manager of the publicly traded mutual fund, The Growth & Income Fund, part of the Reserve Funds family of Funds. Founder and ex-Chairman of the American Economic Council, a nationwide economic reform group credited with the passage of the United States Gold Coin Act of 1984, establishing the U.S. Gold Eagle coin. AEC seminars included participation by Alan Greenspan, Noble Laureate F. A. Hayek and Robert Bleiberg, Editor-in-Chief of Barrons. Former member of the Senatorial Trust in Washington, D.C. Former financial analyst for Litton Industries and Republic Corporation. B.S. Ithaca College. MBA from Syracuse University.
