Management Team

The Inventure management team has proven experience with petroleum fuels and bio-based fuel manufacturing and marketing, market and product development and new business start up management.

Mark Tegen — CEO

Mark brings Inventure over 18 years of petroleum industry manufacturing, marketing and logistics experience. Before co-founding Inventure, Mark was President of Senergy Chemical, which he formed after licensing a novel patent to convert crude biodiesel glycerin into propylene glycol. (The technology won the 2006 Presidential Green Chemistry Award.) Subsequently Mark has worked diligently to develop the technology, form partnerships with Fortune 50 companies and develop Senergy into a projected $200 million plus revenue, profitable, start up business in less than 2 years. Before forming Senergy, Mark was Vice President/General Manager of Pacific Fluids LLC, the largest bulk marketer and terminal of Biodiesel in the Pacific Northwest. He continues to serve as a steering committee member of the Seattle Clean Cities Coalition, a member of the Washington State Department of Agriculture Biofuels Advisory Committee. Mark received his degree in Business Finance from the University of Washington.

Wes Berry — Chief Technology Officer

Wes has over 30 years of chemical engineering experience, from advanced ester processing to uranium recovery; he holds 23 patents. Wes has extensive knowledge in: Ion Exchange/Adsorption System Review: Arsenic Removal from Intermediate Acid: Manganese Recovery from Waste Water: Fine Particle Recovery: Strategic Metals Purification: Metal Salt Recovery from Industrial Process Stream: Phosphoric Acid Ultra-Purification: Industrial-Grade Phosphate Production: Industrial/Food-Grade Phosphate Production: Industrial-Grade Monoammonium Phosphate Production: Animal-Feed Grade Di-Calcium Phosphate Production Evaluation: Fluoride By-product Recovery Electronic Chemical Recycle/Recovery: Luminescent Materials Recovery and Preparations: Precious Metals Fractionation: Ammonium Thiosulfate Production. His extensive experience with catalytic reactions and esterification/transesterification are critical in the patent pending process that Inventure employs.

William Sutterlin, PhD — VP Technology

Dr. Sutterlin has experience in laboratory management, and has served as a primary investigator for SBIR and STTR awards and an APPA/DEED award. As an analytical chemist, Dr. Sutterlin has experience in trouble shooting, interpretation and method development with the following instrumentation: HPLC, LC/MS, GC/MS, AA, GFAA, GC/FID, NMR, FTIR, ES-MS, MS-MS, UV-Vis, DSC, TGA, and thermally controlled powder X-ray diffractometer. He is part of the United States and Brazil research collaboration in biomass conversion, and is a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. Dr. Sutterlin received his B.S. in Chemistry from Troy State University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry. from University of Missouri.

Hans Haglund — Board of Director, Co-Founder

Hans has over 15 years' experience in company startup and business development. He was involved in developing and raising capital for biodiesel production facilities in the western US. Hans was co-founder of two software companies: Legal Anywhere, which was acquired by Niku Corporation in 2000 (NASDQ:NIKU) and AchieveOne, which merged with Dealplanner Inc. in 2001.

Advisory Board

James S.D. Leach

James S.D. Leach is non-executive Chairman of the Board of Nviro Cleantech PLC (www.nvirocleantech.com), a premier clean technology development and commercialization company. Mr. Leach is currently non-executive Director of CLP Holding, the parent company of China Light & Power Co. Ltd, a position he has held since December 1978. In addition, Mr. Leach is an independent non-executive Director of Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co. Ltd. and a Director of China Construction Bank (Asia) (formerly known as Bank of America (Asia) Ltd.). Mr. Leach has spent most of his career in Hong Kong working on various appointments with the Kadoorie Family. During this time he was exposed to many privately held and public operations, with a later focus on the Kadoorie family's associated public held corporations, including CLP Holdings, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, and Tai Ping Carpets. Mr. Leach was closely involved from the inception of China Light and Power's international operations in Thailand, India and Australasia. In the early 1980s, he ran a venture capital company which invested in oilfield equipment manufacturing and construction materials. Mr. Dickson Leach holds an MBA from Columbia University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Peter Ozolin

Peter Ozolin has served in the role of Vice-President at Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC), where he oversaw its Practice Management Segment, which generated revenues in excess of 25M. Prior to Thomson, Peter was the Chief Knowledge & Technology Officer at Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, a global law firm with over 15 offices and 1,200 attorneys world-wide. Earlier in his career Peter was the founder and President of Legal Anywhere, a provider of extranet solutions for the legal market. Niku Corporation (NASDQ:NIKU) acquired Legal Anywhere in 2000 at a transactioned valued at 27M. Post acquisition, Peter served as Niku's Vice President and General Manager for the Legal Profession. He is currently CEO of RemoteMgr.com, a technology company that provides end-to-end management systems for the Quick Service Restaurant industry. Peter has both his Masters in Business and Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Willamette University. He did his undergraduate work at University of Oregon, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Economics and Political Science.

Dr. K. Shaine Tyson

Dr. K. Shaine Tyson is executive director of Rocky Mountain Biodiesel Consulting (www.rockymtnbiodiesel.com), and has been working to develop a commercial biodiesel industry in the United States since 1997. She was a project manager for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory from 1989 to 2004, where her projects included review of biomass process and chemical engineering, emission testing, environmental and policy analysis, life cycle assessment, resource assessment, geographic information systems, and economic modeling. From February 1997 to May 2004, Dr. Tyson directed the U.S. Department of Energy's Biodiesel Program. She has used her position and strategic business skills to work with the National Biodiesel Board, US Department of Energy and US Protection Agency, state agencies and emerging developers to craft the biodiesel industry we have today. Dr. Tyson received the Midwest Research Institute's President's Award in 1990, a Clean Cities Award in 1998, and was recognized by the DOE Biomass Energy Program for superior achievement in establishing, promoting, and implementing biomass energy technologies and resources in 2002. She has provided live and written testimony to the U.S. House and Senate, and has authored over 40 publications and reports during her career at NREL.