Peter Carre AB. JD - Non Executive Chairman

Mr. Carre has been involved in strategic evaluation, development and implementation of global technology investment opportunities for over 40 years. He is currently chairman of NABInvest Managed Investments Limited, the asset management subsidiary of National Australia Bank; Chairman of PowerSense Limited, whose world leading energy efficiency products provide cost and power reduction solutions in the green building environment; Chairman of the GreenBox Energy Group, a smart energy company whose linked inter-active devices in the home help optimise consumer energy use and reduce utilities’ power requirements; and Director of the Tasmanian Renewable Energy Development Board.

Brian Harcourt - Executive Deputy Chairman

Mr. Harcourt is a co-founder of the Company. He has an extensive background in the formation, business development and international growth of advanced technologies. From 1993 until 2005, he acted as Executive Chairman of the Boston Equities Group, a US investment company providing finance and guidance to start up and emerging growth companies. In 2002 Boston Equities was appointed as Financial Advisor to Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. and Mr. Harcourt assisted OPT in completing an AIM listing on the London Stock Exchange in October 2003. As a Financial Advisor to OPT he also sourced and secured a significant business development contract with a Spanish utility company, Iberdrola S.A., Europe's third largest energy company and the world's leading renewable energy company.

In 2002 Mr. Harcourt was also the co-founder and Vice Chairman of US based Renergy Pacific Corporation which was initially formed with a license from OPT to utilize low cost power from the ocean waves combined with a water desalination process to provide freshwater along the coasts of North and South America. In 2004 this company was merged with the United Kingdom based waste to energy, and water resources company, ReEnergy Group Limited, which listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM Market in December 2005. Mr. Harcourt served as Executive Deputy Chairman of the merged entity until April 2006.

Murray Vitlich - Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Vitlich has over 15 years' experience in the management and operations of companies, with a focus on their revenue development and earnings growth, having served 15 years in management and executive roles with Wesfarmers Limited from 1992 to 2006, and two years as Chief Operating Officer of United Group Limited from 2006 to 2008.

During his time at Wesfarmers, Mr Vitlich held senior roles in a variety of businesses, including the Australian Railroad Group (ARG) where he led the management team in the restructuring of a privatised railroad from 2000 up until its sale in June 2006.  At ARG Mr Vitlich held the positions of CFO, COO and later became the CEO in 2005.

Ross Lyndon-James - Executive Director

Mr. Lyndon James has more than 25 years experience in the formation, business development and international growth of advanced technologies in the high-technology sector. His business enterprise enabled him to develop management expertise in leading early stage technologies through various phases of development and commercialization.

Mr. Lyndon James is the co-founder of a number of publicly traded companies in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom and has held the positions of Chairman, President and CEO in most of these companies.
His most recent public company enterprise was Renergy Pacific Corporation (see above) which he co-founded in 2002. Mr. Lyndon-James was the co-founder and CEO of the Boston Equities Group from 1993 to 2005. As a founding shareholder, he has also served on the board of directors of Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. and as a consultant to that company in the areas of business development and capital raising. OPT listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: OPT) in 2003 raising in excess of $40 million.

Andrew Kent - Non-Executive Director

Mr. Kent is the Chairman and majority shareholder of Aspermont Limited (ASX: ASP), a world leading publisher to the mining, oil & gas and related industry sectors. He joined the board of Aspermont in 1998 and is an experienced business manager with over 30 years experience in the international equities market.

Dominic Redfern - Non-Executive Director

Mr Redfern is the co-founder and Executive Director of Altima Partners LLP, a hedge fund operating in London, Monaco and New York. It currently has over US$ 4 billion in funds under management. He is the portfolio manager of the Altima Global Special Opportunities Fund which specializes in illiquid equity investments and is currently the second largest shareholder in Water Resources Group Ltd.

EXPERTS PANEL

Malcolm Richmond - Senior Advisor

Mr. Richmond has extensive senior executive and Board member experience in the resources industry both in Australia and internationally, involving major projects and corporations. These positions included Executive Director of Hamersley Iron and Managing Director of R&D, Rio Tinto Ltd. Currently he is a Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Management and School of Engineering, University of Western Australia, lecturing the Graduate School of Oil and Gas Engineering, Graduate School of Management and Masters of Technology Management programmes. He is also Advisor and Professorial Fellow, Technology Commercialisation, Curtin University of Technology.

He holds a B. Science Hons (Metallurgy) University of NSW, B. Commerce Merit (Econs) University of NSW and has completed various executive courses in U.K., Switzerland and U.S.A.
 

Mr Richard Morris Desalination Expert

Key Qualifications: Weir Westgarth, UK and Middle East.
Head of R&D, Chief Engineer.
Scottish Development Agency: Energy & Environmental
Technology Group.
Richard Morris & Associates

• Advisor to the European Commission, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Official Development Assistance, and governmental organizations in United Kingdom and abroad
• Desalination expert to the European Commission and the United Kingdom Foreign Office
• Engaged by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to study water, energy, and economic development in South Africa and helped establish the Middle East Desalination Research Center in Oman
• European Commission technical representative to Middle East Desalination Research Center as advisor on desalination to the Middle East Peace Process Working Group on Water
• World Bank consultant for desalination in MENA and Central Asia; development of Water Strategy for Saudi Arabia IFC and Nippon Koei to advise Saudi Aviation Authority on new desalination at King Abdul Aziz Airport, Jeddah, KSA
• Author of numerous papers and reports on water, energy and the environment
• Past Chairman of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering's working group on Desalination and
• Water Technology
• Founding President of the European Desalination Society
• Member of United Kingdom Department of Trade and Industry committee on Renewable Energy

Education: BSc (Hons) in Chemical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1964.

Dr Robert J. Budica Chairman & CEO of Agusta Aerospace Corporation

Key Qualifications: Agusta Aerospace, grew enterprise from $32M to over $500M annual sales. Founding Chief Scientist of new Research Centre, Reston VA.

Kaiser Aerospace & Electronics, Marquardt:
- Vice President Engineering, Test and Business Development
- Chief Scientist, Kaiser HQ
- Directed work with ADTech to develop Vapor Compression Distillation.

Rockwell International Space (now Boeing):
- Director, Systems Engineering and Operations
- Missile Defense (SDI) systems engineering
- Advanced Space Launchers
- Space Shuttle Program
- Space Shuttle Main Engine development (Rocketdyne)
- Designed a passive solar, all plastic, seawater desalination system Grumman, Bethpage: Systems Engineer, Apollo Lunar Module Program

Education: BS - Aerospace Engineering/MS - Aeronautics and Astronautics. MBA - Finance, Program Management. ED - Aerospace Engineering/PhD - Aerospace Engineering/Applied Physics. DBA - International Finance.

Dr Brent M. Haddad Professor of Environmental Studies

Key Qualifications:

• University of California
• Founder and Director, Center for IntegratedWater Research which is to develop major policy and economic analysis of desalination planning for California water agencies.
• (Funded by California taxpayers through Proposition 50)
• Co-founder STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research

Education: Stanford University: B.A. 1982. Georgetown University: M.A. 1985. University of California, Berkeley: M.B.A. 1991 (Business and Public Policy). University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D. 1996 (Energy and Resources)

Languages: Arabic and English.

Dr Bernard Scheffler Senior Physics Lecturer

Research Fields:
- Desalination
- New multi-effect and vapour compression distillation methods with polymer heat transfer surfaces
- Solar Energy (21 South African & international patents)
- Single-pass (series connected solar water heaters)
- Polyolefin absorbers for solar water & pool heaters
- Solar thermal electric
- Solar cookers
- Pasteurization temperature indicators
- Theoretical Physics (earlier)
- Multiphoton ionization in laser beams
- Quasistationary sates for atoms in strong electric fields
- Laser Physics (5 PhD & 4 MSc projects)

Education: BSc, BSc (Hons) & MSc (cum laude) at Stellenbosch, D Phil at Oxford University

RADM Albert A, Gallotta, USN (Ret.) Chairman & CEO of SISCORP

Key Qualifications:
- AAG Associates
- Principal of SISCORP, government relations
- Expert in advancing technology to support Intelligence Warfare, Command & Control, & Electronic Warfare
- Member Boards of Directors of several public and private corporations
- Member of National Academy of Science (served with Bob Campbell on several Task Groups)
- Member of Board of Advisors of Advanced Counter Measure Systems
-- Past President of Association of Old Crows

Education: BA International Relations, Brown University