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Altergy Board of Directors

Terry D. Carlone, J. D., Chairman

Mr. Carlone has wide-ranging experience as both an attorney and senior executive. As an attorney, he has served both in private practice and as in-house counsel with a concentration on capital formation and offerings, securities law compliance, antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and licensing. In private practice, he headed the expansion of McDonough Holland & Allen's Sacramento high tech and biotechnology business; chaired Weintraub Genshlea & Sproul’s Technology and Intellectual Property Group; practiced with Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco and established the firm’s Washington D.C. office where he focused on energy regulation; and founded Capital Law Group, specializing in representation of early stage technology-based growth companies. In addition, he has served as General Counsel to Synergex International Corporation, a California-based software company with end users in all 50 U.S. states and more than 80 nations; and Ventria Bioscience, a leading biopharmaceutical company producing plant-made pharmaceuticals for human therapeutics and nutrition. He also was senior legal counsel for Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., a publicly-traded multinational corporation involved in ocean shipping, food products, and real estate development and management.

Mr. Carlone also has broad executive and entrepreneurial experience in both public and private companies including co-founder and President of a technology licensing and consulting firm; co-founder and President of an international manufacturer and marketer of biomedically-based skin treatment products; co-founder and Chief Administrative Officer of a professional employer organization offering turnkey human resource solutions for emerging growth companies; and corporate asset manager of a real estate management and development subsidiary of a publicly traded company.

Mr. Carlone received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University. He is a member of the State Bar of California, District of Columbia Bar (inactive), and Hawaii State Bar Association (inactive). He serves on the board and Executive Committee of the Golden Capital Network, and has served on the boards of the Sacramento Valley Forum for Growth Companies, the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, and the Sacramento Region Chapter of the International Association for Corporate Growth.

Jerrold E. Franklin, Ph.D., Director

Dr. Franklin has been leading engineering activities for over 26 years. His engineering experience spans advanced materials and processes, rocket engine technology, high temperature environments, and design for manufacturing and assembly for fuel cells and other products. His efforts focus on simultaneous design of product and related processes to assure cost effective designs for high volume, low cost manufacturing. He holds three issued and eleven pending patents on fuel cell technology and applications and an issued patent on jet engine technology.

Dr. Franklin and Mr. Mettler have worked together successfully for more than a decade. Prior to joining Altergy, Dr. Franklin served as Director of Technology for Power Technologies Inc., an integrator of advanced power and water desalination equipment solutions, and served as Director, Engineering for Manufacturing Technologies Corporation, a water desalination equipment company, and engineering project manager and project engineer for GenCorp Aerojet where he was awarded a Technical Achievement Award for the development of a high temperature rocket engine. He also led projects as diverse as developing laminated ceramic fluid devices such as heat exchangers and rocket engine propellant injectors, investigated the application of ceramic rocket nozzles and was technical lead for fuel cell development using advanced rocket technology.

Dr. Franklin holds a Ph.D. in Engineering/Materials Science, a Master of Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Davis, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University-Sacramento.

Eric S. Mettler, Director

Mr. Mettler has more than 28 years of engineering, manufacturing and executive management experience leading cost effective business operations, including general management with P & L responsibility, project management, contracts management, financial management, business development, research & development, engineering, product development, high and low volume manufacturing, supply chain management, and quality assurance.

He brings a consistent record of dynamic leadership, hands-on, results oriented management, and on-time and on-budget performance. He has been successful in two prior start-up experiences: Power Technologies Inc., an integrator of advanced power and water desalination equipment solutions, and Manufacturing Technologies Corporation (MTC), a water desalination equipment company. Prior to MTC, Mr. Mettler built a 20-year record of achievement with GenCorp Aerojet which included a division turn-around, and management of the Titan Liquid Rocket Engine Division ($600M annual sales, 600 employees and the largest and most successful division within Aerojet), where as General Manager he led the development, production, sales and market launch of products for the Division while significantly reducing product and overhead costs. He is an inventor of issued and pending patents on fuel cell technology and the architect of Altergy’s manufacturing technology breakthroughs and high volume production processes.

Mr. Mettler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Production, Operations, and Systems Management from California State University-Sacramento. His post-graduate work includes completion of most of the MBA program at California State University-Sacramento, and completion of the Advanced Management Program, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, and the Executive Management Program at the UC-Davis Graduate School of Management. In addition, he has completed professional education and development programs such as Frontline Leadership, American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) CIRM, the JCIT Demand Flow College, Sales and Operations Planning, Master Scheduling, Enterprise Resource Planning, Material Requirements Planning, Capacity Requirements Planning (Oliver Wight Companies and RD Garwood) and Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma courses.

Amer Rustom, Director

Mr. Rustom is co-founder of the Platinum Group, an international business
development company established in 1984.  Mr. Rustom has successfully
guided the many diverse business units of the Group and been instrumental
in the creation of The Platinum Group USA, Inc. as an operational
platform for many business ventures. He has successfully developed strong
ties with many of the Middle East and North African leaders and country
officials as well as the local and international business communities.
Educated in Europe, Mr. Rustom is multi-lingual.

Gary L. Watson, J.D., Director

Mr. Watson is a private investor whose career includes a long history of executive and legal positions in both public and private companies. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Hydrogen Power Source, LLC (HPS), a firm that manages and operates alternative energy companies in the United States, South America and developing nations worldwide.

Prior to joining HPS, Mr. Watson was General Counsel of Mannatech, Incorporated and Executive Director of MannaRelief Industries both headquartered in Arlington, Texas. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Sunstates Acceptance Corporation; Vice President and General Counsel for AgriTech Labs, Inc.; Chief Operating Officer of Quantum Leap, LLC; and President and Chief Operating Officer of Life Changes International, Inc. He also has maintained a private law practice.

Mr. Watson’s public service activities have included two terms on the Indiana Future Farmers Association Foundation Board from 1976 to 1984, and participation on the State of Indiana Air Pollution Control Board from 1976 to 1982, including serving as Chairman from 1978 to 1982.

Mr. Watson earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, and a Juris Doctorate at Indiana University.