Board of Directors 

In addition to Mr. Hennessey the Board of Directors includes:

Benton Becker. Mr. Becker is a lawyer in private practice in Miami Dade County. He also teaches constitutional law at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, Florida. He has served on the Board of Directors of Tengasco, Inc., an American Exchange public oil and gas company. Mr. Becker began his legal career in Washington D.C. with the United States Department of Justice, eventually rising to serve as legal counsel to President Gerald Ford at the time that President Ford was assuming the Presidency from former President Richard Nixon. He received his J.D. from the American University.

Ira Langenthal. Dr. Langenthal co-founded Signal Analysis Industries Corp. (SA/COR), an instrument manufacturing company that was subsequently acquired by Honeywell. After the acquisition Dr. Langenthal continued to work at Honeywell, where he served as Director of Engineering, Vice President of Operations and Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell’s Test Instruments Division until retiring in 1991. Since his retirement, Dr. Langenthal has been active as a consultant and on several Boards of Directors and has been active in Colorado’s Incubator System. . He received a M.Eng. and a Ph.D. from Yale University in statistical communications/information theory and received the award for distinguished individual performance.

Larry McGee. Since 1998 until his retirement in 2006, Mr. McGee was Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer of IESI, an environmental services company that collects, transports, and disposes non-hazardous residential, industrial and commercial wastes as well as providing recycling services. IESI was founded in 1995 and purchased by BFI Canada in 2005. Mr. McGee previously held various financial management positions in the waste management business and worked as a Certified Public Accountant. Since his retirement from IESI, Mr. McGee purchased, and now operates, a landfill in Slidell, Louisiana. He is in the process of acquiring additional landfill locations. He has a B.S. in accounting from the University of Tennessee.

Paul Simon, Jr. Mr. Simon is a practicing attorney and partner in the law firm of Sauerwein, Simon, and Blanchard, which he joined in 2006. Prior to that he was a partner in the firm Helfrey, Simon and Jones, P.C. He received his J.D. from the St. Louis University School of Law. Mr. Simon serves as outside legal counsel for numerous corporations and concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate and corporate transactions, construction and business litigation and governmental law and relations.