Management
Ingo Stuckmann, Ph.D., CEO, President and Director
Dr. Stuckmann received a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the University of Heidelberg and conducted research at Harvard thereafter. In 2002, Ingo joined Energy Farming International, a wind farm financing and construction company based in Germany. During his management, 230 MW of wind farm projects were successfully developed in Spain and 329 MW were successfully developed in the US. Energy Farming International merged with Seeba Energy Farming Group in 2007, and Ingo now serves as a Principal of the merged entity. With currently more than 80 employees, SeeBa Energy Farming Group www.seebaenergyfarming.de is involved in the planning and developing of more than 900 wind turbines with an accumulated capacity of more than 1300 MW around the world. Approximately 30% of these wind turbines are mounted on SeeBa-lattice towers, the majority with hub-heights of more than 100m. In 2008, Ingo co-founded Zero Emission People LLC for wind energy development in North America.
J.C. Pennie, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr. Pennie is a pioneer in the wind energy industry in Ontario, Canada. He has successfully developed six wind energy projects representing $360 million in power contracts that have been sold into joint ventures with international firms such as Energy Faming International of Germany and Schneider Power of Toronto. Mr. Pennie is on the IESO (Independent Electrical System Operators) renewable energy standing committee. The IESO is responsible for coordination of generation and transmission with electricity demand. Mr. Pennie is also Vice-Chairman of DareArts Foundation for Children, founded in 1994 using multi-cultural arts education programs for children at risk. DareArts has reached over 110,000 children in Canada. www.DareArts.com
Glen MacMullin CA, Director
Mr. MacMullin is a Chartered Accountant and is currently Senior Vice President, Asset Management with Minto Properties, a real estate development, construction and management company based in Ottawa, Canada. Prior to joining Minto Group in 2008, he was a Managing Director at Xavier Sussex, LLC, a New York-based private equity firm affiliated with Deutsche Bank that he co-founded in 2004. The firm launched with a $200 million seed commitment from Deutsche Bank and structured private investments into mid-market companies undergoing financial and/or operational restructuring. Previously, Mr. MacMullin was Chief Operating Officer with the proprietary trading group of Deutsche Bank in New York. The group managed over $6 billion in capital through a 20 strategy alternative investment platform including managed futures, statistical arbitrage, merger arbitrage, event, fundamental long/short, systematic long/short, relative value, private equity, convertible arbitrage, foreign exchange and credit. Prior to his appointment with Deutsche Bank in New York, he ran the hedge fund division for Deutsche Bank Offshore in the Cayman Islands.
Mr. MacMullin is currently a Director of Pensato Europa Absolute Return Fund, an Irish listed UCITS fund. He has also been on the Board of Directors of numerous public companies in North America including DSL.net Inc., Aegis Communications Group Inc., Briazz Inc., and Nayarit Gold Inc.
Mr. MacMullin started his career in public accounting with Coopers & Lybrand in Ottawa, Canada and KPMG in the Cayman Islands. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Saint Francis Xavier University and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Thomas Tschiesche, Ph.D., Advisor
Dr. Tschiesche received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle and a Ph.D. from the University of Duisburg. Thomas served over 5 years as general manager at Nordex, one of the world's leading wind turbine manufacturers. Over 100 wind farm projects were realized under his management - in locales as varied as Pennsylvania, California, Germany, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and China with Nordex annually doubling its turnover year after year culminating in the IPO in 2001. In 2002 serving as its CEO, Thomas co-founded Energy Farming International, a company for wind farm financing and construction that grew to $100 Million USD in revenue over six years. Energy Farming International merged with Seeba Energy Farming Group in 2007 where he also serves as a Principal of the merged entity. In 2008, Thomas co-founded Zero Emission People LLC for wind energy development in North America.
Cam Birge, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Birge served on the Advisory Board and as Vice President of Operations of the Trust for Sustainable Development which has been engaged in the business of planning and creating sustainable buildings and towns involving alternative energy since 1994. Cam has also served as President and Director of two public mining companies and is a partner in a Honda car dealership. Cam was an Associate Professor at United States International University (Mexico City campus) and was twice elected to serve on the Academic Counsel as the Head of the Graduate Business studies. He is a consultant to public and private companies doing business in Canada, the United States and Mexico.