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Gary Cook, Chief Executive Officer
Biographies E. Gary Cook, the Chairman and CEO, is the former Chairman, President, and CEO of Witco Corporation. Dr. Cook received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University. He joined E. I. DuPont in 1969 as a Research Chemist. He spent 23 years with DuPont, holding a variety of senior management positions, including Vice President of Medical Products, Vice President and General Manager of Publishing and Printing, and Vice President-Corporate Plans. He joined Ethyl Corporation as Senior Vice President and President-Chemicals Group and Director in 1992. In 1994, the Chemicals Group was spun off from Ethyl as the Albemarle Corporation as an independently traded specialty chemical company. Dr. Cook served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Albemarle. He was named Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Witco Corporation in 1996. He served in that capacity until the merger of Witco and Crompton and Knowles in 1999, at which time he was named Chairman of the merged company, CKWitco. Dr. Cook has served on numerous industry association boards, including those of the Chemical Manufacturers Association, the Soap and Detergent Association, the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, and the Health Industry Manufacturers Association. He has served as a director of numerous public companies over the last twenty years, and is currently Chairman of the Board of Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, a building products company. David Farmer, the President and COO, holds a BSIE from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Duke University. He provides overall general management and strategic responsibility for the business development activities of InEnTec Chemical. With over 27 years of professional experience, Mr. Farmer brings a well-rounded background in marketing, operations management, and engineering to the group. Mr. Farmer worked for Kraft-General Foods for over 13 years where he held various engineering, operations, and marketing positions including the launch of the successful Lunchables product line. Mr. Farmer held Marketing Director positions at Nevada's Sierra Pacific electric utility, Fort James paper products, and Praxair, a $6B global leader in industrial atmospheric gas and applications. At Praxair he led global business development efforts targeted to the food & beverage and chemical and refining industry segments Mr. Farmer joined InEnTec in 2003 as president of the wholly owned subsidiary InEnTec Medical Services LLC. He successfully managed the division until 2007 leading to a strategic relationship with MedServe, Inc. a national medical and hazardous waste services company. Mr. Farmer assumed the position of COO with InEnTec in 2007 and was named to his current position with InEnTec Chemical in 2008. Cam DiFrancesco, Chief Financial Officer. A senior business executive with extensive experience in management, finance, banking and accounting, entrepreneurial ventures and start-ups, business development, strategic planning, and market and business analysis, Cam was most recently an Executive Vice President at Healthworks, Inc., a private healthcare professional practice company specializing in the areas of invasive and non-invasive cardiology, electrophysiology and specialty nursing. Prior to that he was the emerging company practice director at Lordi Consulting, LLC, a Philadelphia-area accounting and business consulting firm. Prior to joining Lordi Consulting, Cam provided senior level career management services as a Career Consultant at Drake Beam Morin, Inc. (“DBM”), and as an Executive Vice President with a Philadelphia area career coaching, marketing and management firm. Cam was one of five founding executives of supplyFORCE.com, a B2B MRO e-procurement company located in King of Prussia, PA, where he held the position of Chief Financial Officer. Scott G. Hornby, Vice President and General Counsel - Mr. Hornby has nearly 20 years of combined experience as legal counsel, management and leadership positions for corporations and law firms in the commercial and regulatory realms. As InEnTech Chemical’s General Counsel, he is charged with managing the company’s legal affairs to complement its business development initiatives and growth goals. Mr. Hornby graduated from the University of Michigan with dual degrees in Economics and English Literature and received his law degree from the University of Detroit School Of Law in 1992. His path after law school, and for the ensuing several years, led to Mr. Hornby’s position as General Counsel and Regulatory Affairs Director for a RCRA treatment, storage, and disposal facility, and one of the Midwestern U.S.’s largest used oil recyclers. During this stage of his career, Mr. Hornby successfully represented the company before various regulatory agencies in RCRA, CERCLA, and TSCA compliance and enforcement matters, oversaw and managed the company’s several outside attorneys, and he was also instrumental in successfully orchestrating a bet-the-company defense in a multi-plaintiff nuisance lawsuit that received national notoriety. His General Counsel role evolved into the formation of a boutique corporate law firm, specializing in corporate and regulatory matters for the environmental, manufacturing, staffing, and technology industries, continuing the representation of his former employer and adding many of its friendly competitors. His innovative and pro-active “value add” approach to corporate legal representation in the commercial and regulatory realms benefited Mr. Hornby’s clients ranging from start-ups and early stage companies to middle and upper market corporations. Mr. Hornby maintains licensure and certification in Michigan and North Carolina. Gary McDow, Executive Vice President – Business Development is responsible for driving all project and new business development activities for InEnTec Chemical. He holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University as well as completing numerous professional development courses in finance, marketing and sales. His career has spanned over 35 years with responsibilities ranging from engineering to sales, operations and business development. Mr. McDow began his career in the oilfield services industry, but eventually moved into the field of industrial gases with Big Three Industries and subsequently Air Liquide, a global leader in that market. He has held numerous senior management positions including Vice President of Hydrogen Ventures, Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of the Chemical Market Group. He has extensive experience in strategic planning and organizational implementation. In addition, he has been responsible for starting new business units within companies and has run a successful entrepreneurial business of his own. With this broad background, Mr. McDow brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the areas of project and business development as well as contract negotiations and administration. William J. Quapp, PE, Vice President of Project Development, develops project economic and technical evaluations for InEnTec Chemical customers. He also is involved in environmental permitting and regulatory analysis. Mr. Quapp has over 40 years of engineering, project management, and business development experience for a wide variety of companies including General Electric, Westinghouse, Lockheed, and EG&G, including over 16 years of experience in nuclear and hazardous waste management. He was responsible for managing nuclear waste management and environmental restoration technology development at INEEL and holds 3 patents in those areas. Mr. Quapp led the Department of Energy system engineering studies to evaluate thermal and non-thermal options for the treatment of Hazardous, Transuranic, and Mixed Waste and served as a technical reviewer for the DOE Environmental Management Science Program. In addition, he has managed the design of complex experimental programs for determining the safety limits of nuclear reactors, has over 70 publications in the fields of waste management, systems engineering, depleted uranium technology, nuclear engineering, and reactor safety and has served as Technical Program Chairman for Topical Meetings of the American Nuclear Society. Mr. Quapp holds a BS in Science from San Diego State University and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the San Jose State University and has done postgraduate work in business development, project management, personnel management, chemical engineering, and environmental law. David A. Lamar, Vice President of Engineering, oversees all activities at InEnTec’s Richland Technology Center. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Montana State University in chemical engineering. He was an engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute from 1986 to 1998, and has worked on and managed several key glass melter projects over the past ten years. He was also previously in charge of a program for demonstrating plasma applications in a radioactive environment for the treatment of low level and mixed waste at Department of Energy sites. Major projects on which Mr. Lamar worked include designing and overseeing construction of an Advanced Vitrification Technology melter which expanded the number and types of waste that could be processed, the Hot-Cell Restoration Program, which involved developing methods to evaluate, categorize, catalog and remove special case radioactive wastes at the DOE Hanford site, and characterization of the West Valley Demonstration Plant in which Mr. Lamar oversaw a team of scientists and engineers who characterized and assessed the waste at the site and an analyzed appropriate remedial efforts. Mr. Lamar has also been involved in various assessment, surveillance and permitting projects at Hanford and other Department of Energy sites as well as commercial sites such as Three Mile Island. This work has given Mr. Lamar a broad understanding of the environmental regulatory arena, and the permitting process for hazardous and radioactive waste processing operations. Mr. Lamar was the recipient of three R&D 100 Awards in 1997 and 1998. Mark Hall, Senior Vice President and Chief Environmental Officer of Lakeside Energy is serving in the capacity of Senior Vice President of External Affairs for InEnTec Chemical. In this role, Mr. Hall is coordinating government and environmental affairs for InEnTec Chemical and is the coordinator for Responsible Care activities. Mr. Hall works with other Lakeside Energy portfolio companies in a similar capacity and is also actively involved with new evaluating new acquisition opportunities. Mr. Hall has over 18 years of experience in the energy and environmental fields. Prior to joining Lakeside, Mr. Hall was the Senior Vice President of External Affairs for Environmental Power Corporation (NASDAQ:EPG), responsible for public and government affairs, investor relations, corporate communications and the company’s carbon strategy. Previously, Mr. Hall was Senior Vice President for Primary Energy Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of EPCOR Power L.P. where he was responsible for external and environmental affairs. He also served as the investor relations officer for Primary Energy Recycling Corporation (TSX:PRI.UN) a public company managed by Primary Energy Ventures. Prior to joining Primary Energy, Mr. Hall was Vice President of External Affairs for Trigen Energy Corporation, responsible for Trigen's government affairs, corporate communications, and e-business functions. Mr. Hall has also worked as an environmental consultant to industrial, commercial and institutional clients before joining Trigen. His education includes a BA in Chemistry from Austin College in Sherman, Texas with a Masters of Science Degree in Environmental Science (MSES) from Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington, Indiana. Mike Hatem, PE, Vice President, Operations. Mr. Hatem's 21 years of progressive experience encompasses all facets of engineering, maintenance and operations management of power generation facilities. In addition to plant management, Mr. Hatem's career is marked by engineering achievements such as timely turbine rebuilds, efficiency improving control upgrades, reliable power distribution coordination, successful plant construction and commissioning, and innovative plant restructuring. In 1998, Mr. Hatem joined Air Liquide where he successfully commissioned and managed a newly constructed 300 MWeq waste gas generating station. After leaving Air Liquide to join Nations Energy's executive team in 2000, Mr. Hatem was Vice President of Operations where he managed the company's diverse portfolio of generating facilities that utilize a wide array of generating technologies and fuels. A registered Professional Engineer in the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, Mr. Hatem earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University and a M.S. in Management from Purdue University. |