Kevin Kreisler, Chairman
Mr. Kreisler is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of GreenShift Corporation. Mr. Kreisler is responsible for devising the Company's strategic direction, driving the financing, acquisition, development and commercialization of the Company's clean technologies, and facilitating the realization of the Company's mission to build shareholder value by catalyzing disruptive environmental gain. Mr. Kreisler served as the Company's vice president from 1998 to 2000, president from 2000 to 2002, and chief executive officer from 2002 to the present. Mr. Kreisler has also served as the Company's chairman from 2005 to the present. Mr. Kreisler is a graduate of Rutgers University College of Engineering (B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994), Rutgers University Graduate School of Management (M.B.A., 1995), and Rutgers University School of Law (J.D., 1997). Mr. Kreisler is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Edward R. Carroll, President and Chief Financial Officer
Since joining GreenShift in September 2007, Mr. Carroll played a pivotal role in positioning the Company for the completion of the significant levels of financing required to execute on its capital intensive business model.
Mr. Carroll has over 13 years in investment banking and corporate finance. Mr. Carroll has experience executing mergers & acquisitions and large scale transactions and has managed the entire lifecycle of M&A transactions from negotiating financial terms to financing the deals to implementing change across multiple business units to increasing shareholder value. He has extensive experience in general industrial and cross-border M&A and change of control transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations and joint ventures. Mr. Carroll has worked with both U.S., European and Japanese companies in acquiring U.S. and overseas assets. Prior to joining GreenShift, Mr. Carroll worked at Daiwa Securities where he was an officer in the Mergers & Acquisitions group. Through this experience, he has developed an expertise in several industry sectors, including alternative fuels, energy, consumer products and general manufacturing.
Mr. Carroll is a prior board member of the Westchester Venture Group, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance with a Minor in Asian Studies from Saint John's University, and an MBA in Finance from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). Mr. Carroll also has military experience as a former infantry officer in the United States Army.
Greg Barlage, Chief Operational Officer
Mr. Barlage ensures that the Company's construction and production activities are carried out in a safe, compliant and cost-effective manner. Mr. Barlage has developed many of GreenShift's process innovations and he leverages his role at the apex of operations to help phase the Company's new technologies into commercial viability.
Mr. Barlage's experience includes 15 years of process engineering, manufacturing optimization, maintenance and operations management with a leading food products company. For the 6 years prior to joining GreenShift, Mr. Barlage worked for Alfa Laval, a global leader in heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling solutions. There he was responsible for all capital equipment sales to the meat processing and vegetable oil processors in the U.S. In this position he effectively reformed the sales team to grow sales and innovate with new products and systems for these industries.
Mr. Barlage also played a critical role in the engineering and installation of a commercial-scale version of GreenShift's Tornado Generator™ technology, the only one of its kind in the world, in Joplin, Missouri, where it effectively processes and dehydrates poultry products into highly nutritional and shelf stable products. This system operates 24 hours per day, 5 days per week and also uses Alfa Laval heat transfer and centrifuge components in conjunction with the Tornado Generator™ to produce high quality animal fats, chicken broth and dehydrated poultry proteins.
Mr. Barlage has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
David Winsness, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Winsness leads the Company's technology conceptualization, prototyping and piloting activities. As a co-inventor of the Company's corn oil extraction technologies, Mr. Winsness also directs GreenShift's extraction sales and marketing activities.
Mr. Winsness has either personally authored or directed the acquisition of many patented and patent-pending technologies, all of which are now part of GreenShift's technology portfolio. His authored technologies alone have the potential to dramatically increase the profitability of renewable fuel production and make a tangible contribution to energy independence in the United States.
Mr. Winsness is a graduate of Clemson University (B.S., Mechanical Engineering 1991) and has spent his professional career as a process engineer in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical and power generation markets. Prior to joining GreenShift, Mr. Winsness served as chief technology officer and eventually chief executive officer of Vortex Dehydration Technology where he directed the research, development and commercialization of a technology that is now GreenShift's Tornado Generator™.
Richard Krablin, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Special Projects
Dr. Krablin directs GreenShift's environmental, health and safety programs and plays an integral role in GreenShift's research and development activities and other special projects.
Prior to joining GreenShift, Dr. Krablin served as Senior Vice President of Environment, Health and Safety for Horsehead Industries, Inc., a leading zinc recycler. Dr. Krablin administered Horsehead's compliance as it extracted zinc from electric arc furnace dust, a hazardous waste produced by the steel industry.
Prior to joining Horsehead, Dr. Krablin had a multi-tasked career with Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) where he directed the worldwide environmental affairs of the mining and mineral processing subsidiary and managed the legacies and Superfund sites of the former Anaconda Co. Dr. Krablin started his industry career with The Anaconda Co. in Montana.
Dr. Krablin has a Ph.D. and M.S. in physics from Drexel University in Philadelphia and a B.S. in physics from Lafayette College, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program for business leaders.
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