George E. St. John, P.E., President  is a former engineering consultant to The World Bank, The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Bechtel Construction Company, and Hawaiian Electric Industries. He served as a legislative and regulatory spokesman for the independent-power and sugar industries.  Mr. St John served as former President of Amfac Energy, Director of Engineering, and Chief Engineer for AMFAC’s five sugar mills in Hawaii. He is an expert in engineering, operations management, and project development for renewable energy projects and also served as program manager of the Honolulu City and County 47 MW, 1200 tpd garbage to energy plant in Hawaii.


Robert Shleser, Ph.D., VP Technical Development, CTO holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics and Molecular Genetics from Purdue University with more than 30 years of experience in developing and managing research and production projects.  He is the author of a comprehensive 1994 study of Ethanol production technologies and financial analysis for production in Hawaii, prepared by the State of Hawaii’s Department of Business Economic Development and Tourism.  Dr. Shleser was formerly a consultant on the economics of energy production using waste material as feedstocks for Unisyn Biosystems and a consultant to USAID and Asian Development Bank evaluating waste conversion opportunities in Micronesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. He is a former Director and Vice President of the Oceanic Institute of Hawaii.


Eric Darmstaedter, VP Business Development; Acting CFO  was formerly VP Business Development for HEI Power Corp International, Metcalf & Eddy, Research Cottrell, and other  companies in the power generation and environmental engineering markets. He has twenty-five years of energy and environmental market experience in the US and Asia, developing project companies, new startups, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions, technology transfers and licensing agreements.  BS Environmental Engineering, Cornell University.   Mr. Darmstaedter is.currently serving his fourth year on Hawaii Angels Executive Board evaluating new high technology companies for angel investors.  Members of Hawaii Angels have collectively invested over $22 million in over 35 companies since 2003. Mr. Darmstaedter also serves on the Boards of Directors of Durafizz and Hawaii NanoSciences.


Steve Sharpe, Financing Advisor/Consultant to ClearFuels  most recently was CEO of NP Capital and Energy Partners, Mr. Sharpe successfully arranged $1 billion in commitments from the private equity market including Thomas H. Lee, Madison Dearborn Partners, Citigroup Venture Capital.  As VP Finance of PGE/Bechtel, Mr. Sharpe raised non-recourse construction and term financing, development capital and equity, closing over $5 billion in project financings representing 17 projects.  Experience includes commercial bank underwriting and syndication, 144(a) debt offerings, private placements, high yield taxable and tax-exempt bonds, leasing, mezzanine, and wide variety of equity structures. As VP and Deputy to the President of Lloyds International Corporation, Mr., Sharpe arranged high yield financings totaling more than $3 billion.  He had direct responsibility for sourcing, structuring, negotiating and syndicating senior secured commercial loans with specific expertise, industrial and energy project finance, LBOs, corporate finance, new ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.  Mr. Sharpe was a Member of the Bank Advisory Group to Mexico during the first critical stages of the country's debt crisis in 1982 - 1983.  He was instrumental in negotiation and implementation of the initial $7 billion Mexican rescue plan which also established the framework for the other country restructurings that followed. 


W. Patrick Fligg, Outside Counsel to ClearFuels for Contracts was formerly Vice President and General Counsel of HEI Power Corp., the international power subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (“HEI”) and sister company of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (“HECO”).  Mr. Fligg was the principal advisor to HECO, a public utility, in negotiations with various independent power producers and represented and advised the company in day-to-day interface with them during project development, construction, commissioning and commercial operation of coal, oil, garbage, hydro, wind and recaptured gas power plants, including, representing the company in the rearrangement of term project financing for an independent power producer. Previously, Mr. Fligg served in the U.S. Army in various positions of leadership in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps including as the Staff Judge Advocate for the U.S. Army Support Command, Hawaii.  He is a graduate of the Command & General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  He received his BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a JD from California Western School of Law and an LL.M (Taxation) from New York University School of Law.