Steve is part Cherokee and part Morman. His family has a 60 year relationship with White Mountain Apache Tribe through their trucking company. Steve, a military veteran (managing nuclear armed planes), built and operated the first biomass power plant in Arizona with APS. Now, as Operations Manager, Steve will be responsible for build out and operations. Steve also comes with myriad ideas to turn waste streams into value streams.

Ronald is a White Mountain Apache Tribal member who left the reservation to educate himself. Working up from a college graduate to a fire fighter to a logger, Ronald has been active in tribal affairs. Through Ronald, the White Mountain Apache Tribe voted in a tribal resolution to lease 81 acres rent free for 25 years to Ronald for this CarbonTech project. Ronald knows the forests, the tribe, and they are waiting for us to get started.

Bob is part Chikasaw / part Dutch. Bob went on to set up MarketCom where such ideas as "the Dream Team" and "the Fridge" originated. Bob worked closely with Wal-Mart, moved to China to do sustainable economic development for 12 years, and invented by the 'seat of his pants' a renewable energy composite fuel. Bob is ready to turn waste streams into value streams and Bob has rekindled his relationship with Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is waiting for us

Doug has a background in the Clinton Administration in the Interior Department and to Mobil Oil before he settled down in Phoenix to set up his own law practice. Doug has been instrumental in our navigation through the Arizona Corporation Commission and in understanding the federal standards and regulations. Doug is a member of the California, Arizona, Washington DC and Texas Bar Associations, and brings a wealth of contacts and experiences

Robert lived in Japan six years and worked in investment research in Tokyo and institutional sales in Los Angeles for The Nomura Group from 1984 to 1991. Robert set up Innovative Technologies Development Center in 2003 to identify, evaluate, and develop commercially viable ideas in the arid lands technology space (water, renewable energy, and bioproducts). The Shatz family bought the licensing rights & helped make Tribal and Wal-Mart agreements