Charles Vinick
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Charles Vinick was appointed Chief Executive Officer on January 18, 2011. Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Vinick was Executive Chairman effective August 1, 2010. Mr. Vinick has served as a director since August 2006 and has served as the Chairman of the Board since December 22, 2009. Until December 2010, Mr. Vinick served as Director of Business Development and Government Relations for Dehlsen Associates, a renewable energy technology development firm in Carpinteria, California. Mr. Vinick has more than 25 years of experience directing and managing organizations and programs. From June 2005 through August 2007, Mr. Vinick was the Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. He served as Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Santa Barbara City College from June 2004 through May 2005 and as Vice President of Fritz Institute from October 2003 to March 2004. Mr. Vinick was Executive Vice President of the Ocean Futures Society from its founding in 1998 through September 2003. Including the Ocean Futures Society, Mr. Vinick has previously held executive positions for over 20 years with organizations headed by Jacques or Jean-Michel Cousteau.
Michael R. "Mickey" Donn, Sr.
Chief Operating Officer and Director
Michael Donn, Sr. was appointed a director in March 2005 and was appointed our Chief Operating Officer on March 27, 2008. Mr. Donn has held a number of senior executive positions with us since January 2000. As part of his duties, Mr. Donn set up and coordinated our relief effort in Waveland, Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Donn was the Project Manager for Ecosphere’s EPA Verification testing of its Water Filtration System. From November 2006 until January 29, 2010, Mr. Donn was a director of GelTech Solutions, Inc. From 1994 to 2000, he served as President of the Miami-Dade County Fire Fighters Association, a 1,700-member employee association for which he previously served as Vice President and Treasurer beginning in 1982. His responsibilities included negotiating, lobbying at the local, state and national levels, head of the business operations for the Association, and Chairman of the Insurance Trust.
D. Stephen Keating
Director
D. Stephen Keating was appointed a director in August 2008. Since December 2008, Mr. Keating has served as the Vice President of Taxes at Crocs, Inc. Mr. Keating served as the Vice President of the Worldwide Taxes for CA, Inc. from 1988 through June 2008 where Mr. Keating was the senior officer responsible for the worldwide tax, which included tax planning and strategy, tax accounting and day-to-day supervision for the U.S. and international tax departments. At CA, Inc., Mr. Keating was involved with approximately 100 mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Additional responsibilities included negotiating with the IRS and various countries tax authorities on audit issues and APA reports.
Gene H. Davis
Director
Gene Davis was appointed a director in August 2008. Since August 2, 2010, Mr. Davis has been the Vice President of Geosciences at Caerus Oil and Gas LLC, an independent oil and gas exploration and production firm headquartered in Denver, CO. From March 2008 until June 2010, Mr. Davis was employed as Vice President/General Manager of the Denver Region for NFR Energy, LLC, an independent oil and gas production company headquartered in Houston, Texas. From December 2004 to March 2008, Mr. Davis was the Geological and Geophysical Manager for the Western Business Unit of Forest Oil Corp. where he developed and implemented drilling programs in the Permian and various Rocky Mountain Basins. Mr. Davis has over 30 years of executive geoscience, asset management, and successful exploratory and development geology and geophysics experience.
Jimmac Lofton
Director
Jimmac Lofton was appointed as a director on March 7, 2012. Since January, 2012, Mr. Lofton has been an advisor of Stanhill Capital Partners, a merchant banking group that invests principally in the natural resources sector. From March 2008 to December 2011, Mr. Lofton worked in investor relations and corporate development at Evergreen Energy, a clean coal technology, energy production and environmental solutions company. Prior to that, Mr. Lofton was a registered representative at Raymond James from September 1996 through March 2008. Mr. Lofton was selected as a director due to his experience with clean technologies, business development and the capital markets.
