CSPU Management

CEO - GERALD HABIB Mr. Habib is a seasoned executive who has many years of experience in managing technology based projects and in developing new businesses. He has been COO of a $20+ million specialized hazardous waste company with over 100 employees. Trans-Cycle Industries and TCI, Inc, a privately held environmental services company. Mr. Habib has been a Director of three public companies, including a $100 million independent power producer and solar energy company.

Most recently, he had been the Chief Operating Officer of TCI Companies until its sale to a strategic acquirer. Earlier, he had been Director of Worldwide Planning and Business Development for a $1 billion specialty chemicals division of NL Chemicals. His operational and technical experience, spanning over 30 years, is highlighted by the ability to take technology and products to market utilizing internal sales and marketing, licensing, business development partnering, joint venture formation, and mergers and acquisitions in the areas of process engineering and sales of chemicals, polymers and related industrial products.

Employment History: Polacryl: – Vice President, Business Development, NL Industries: – Director of Worldwide Planning and Business Development, Olin Corporation: – Business Manager, Scientific Design/Halcon: – Process Engineer.

Education: New York University-Leonard N. Stern School of Business: – MBA, Corporate Finance, City University of New York City College: – B.ChE, Chemical Engineering.

HEAD OF ENGINEERING - THOMAS P. KAY, The founder of Concentrating Solar Power Utility, is a solar old timer who once worked for Exxon back in the 1970’s as a solar consultant, at the age of 22. Thomas P. Kay got his first Solar Patent when he was 24 years old, "Solar Collector Panel and Refrigeration System" Mr. Kay started his first solar company, TK Solar Distributors in 1970. He marketed hundreds of his solar files to Fortune 500 companies on microfiche/microfilm. He was responsible for installing some of the first solar hot water heaters in New York State. Thereafter, he became a solar energy consultant to Exxon Enterprises the venture capital arm of Exxon. After working for Exxon, he opened “The Solar Store” in Mastic, Long Island, NY, one of the first retail outlets that sold every type of solar product available at the time. Products sold were solar photovoltaic panels, solar hot water heaters, solar cookers, solar watches and calculators, solar pool heating panels and books. CSPU is the culmination of Thomas P. Kay’s lifetime commitment to the advancement of solar energy’s power to help humanity by developing the world’s most efficient solar MHD electric technology.

Mr. Kay is a solar inventor with 3 U.S. solar patents and other solar patents pending. One Solar MHD patent was jointly developed with two professors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Since 1994, Mr. Kay has published several articles, testified before the U.S. Congress and made numerous appearances in the media regarding solar energy topics. Mr. Kay attended Hofstra New College. and New York University Stern School of Business. Stern is one of the oldest and most prestigious business schools in the world. Mr. Kay will continue as Chief Technology Officer with responsibility for overall system design, integration, testing and product technology refinement.

CHIEF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OFFICER - PROFESSOR DOUGLAS B. CHRISEY, Professor of Physics and Engineering Physics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans. Mr Chrisey has 300 peer-reviewed publications and 20 patents and has been honored with the endowed Jung Chair of Materials Engineering. Doug began his stellar engineering and academic career when he earned a B.S. in Physics from the State University of New York At Binghamton in 1983 and later a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia in 1987. He spent the next 17 years at the Naval Research Laboratory as the Head of the Laser Processing Section. After spending 1 year as the Deputy Director at the North Dakota State University Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Doug joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a Professor of Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering. Currently, Doug is teaching and performing research at Tulane University and is the Jung Chair of Materials Engineering in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics with Adjunct appointments in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tulane and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Material Science Department.

Doug is well known to the world of science and engineering with more than 400 citable publications and over 9,000 citations and an h-index value of 49. He has edited or co-edited 15 books and has 18 patents. He also serves as a Scientific Advisor to Nanotherapeutics, Science and Engineering Officer at MSI Limited, the Chief Technology Officer for Nano Solutions, and is President of Omni-Metrics.

Doug’s research interests are wide ranging and include the novel laser fabrication of thin films and coatings of advanced materials for electronics, sensors, biomaterials, and for energy storage. Doug is world renown and is considered one of the pioneers in the field of Pulsed Laser Deposition and was the lead inventor of MAPLE processing technique (matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation). He is currently publishing in areas of metallic nanoparticle fabrication, biosensing, bionanotechnology, tissue engineering, stem cell processing, ceramics, and polyamorphism.

Board of Advisors

STRATEGIC PLANING, SYSTEM INTERGRATION - JOHN SORENSEN, Ph D, Dr. John Sorensen has over 40 years of engineering, technical project management, business development, and corporate management experience. His technical background has been primarily in the areas of design and analysis of dynamic systems with expertise in automatic control and traffic management. His early technical career was devoted to spacecraft flight control and space booster (rocket) guidance for NASA. Since 1971, he focused on aviation systems design. His work has also included significant contributions to the integration of air traffic management with airline flight dispatch and the flight deck. He has taken over 100 technical projects from initiation to successful completion. In July 1985, Sorensen co-founded Seagull Technology, Inc. where thereafter he was Chief Executive Officer for twenty years. He led Seagull to become a well respected, high technology company, and in the process, he spun off two related successful companies. In April 2005 Seagull was sold to Sensis Corp. of Syracuse, NY, where Sorensen became a Sr. Fellow. In April 2009, he became an independent systems engineering and organizational management consultant. His education includes B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State U (1962); M.S. Engineering Mechanics, Iowa State U (1964); and PhD Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford U (1970).

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