David Thacher serves as Board Chair and advisor to the company, drawing on his engineering management and technical marketing experience from 18 years at Microsoft. Mr. Thacher is currently an active angel investor in the Seattle venture community.

Mr. Rose spent most of his career, including eight years as President and CEO, at Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation, a major regional broker and underwriter of municipal bonds. Currently he consults with public and private clients on public finance matters as part of The Leora Consulting Group and also serves as Director of Manzanita Capital, the parent company of regional brokerage firm McAdams Wright Ragen.

Bill Hunter became President of Practical Steam in December, 2011, and is responsible for general management of the business as well as marketing outreach. He is also the President and Owner of AirClean Technologies (ACT) which he founded in 1999 and is the principal engineer for its sister company, AirClean Engineering LLC, for performance of industrial energy efficiency audits. He is a registered engineer in the state of Washington

Joshua Tolbert became the company’s Chief Technology Officer in 2013. Josh has two master’s degrees in engineering, and is a doctoral candidate, expecting to receive his PhD in late 2013 from the University of Alabama. He has significant expertise in reciprocating engines, engineering design and thermodynamics.