Management Team

Dan Gautschi, Chairman & CEO

With 30 years experience in construction, petrochemical and environmental engineering, Dan is the founder of SunEco Energy, Global Renewable Energy Systems Inc. Global RES, Inc. is in the development of liquid fuels technologies from alternative organic feed sources and developed the Waste to Energy tech for the growth, harvesting and refinement of Algae to Energy. The company also markets organic bio-fuel and solvents. Dan developed the proprietary processes and equipment that will constitute the corpus of the initial intellectual property interest. Dan’s other companies include Global EMS Inc. Environmental Engineering & Construction Firm involved in building, retrofitting, and decommissioning major chemical facilities and works with local, State, and Federal Army corps of engineers to conduct environmental cleanup and remediation as well as construction of local infrastructure, West Coast Bio-Fuels Inc., a wholesale distributor of a wide variety of solvents, petroleum products, and biodiesel products including some of Dan’s own proprietary solvents and products for the fuel industry.

Keith Meyer, President/COO

Keith Meyer is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of management experience in the energy industry, both domestically in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Meyer is Chairman and CEO of Sunthenoil LLC, a company created to encourage the development and commercialization of global biofuels. Prior To forming Sunthenoil, Mr. Meyer was president of Cheniere LNG Inc., a principal subsidiary of a publically traded company, which successfully developed America’s largest LNG receiving terminal (Amex: LNG).

In addition to Fortune 500 corporate experience, Mr. Meyer’s experience at Cheniere gave him direct experience growing a company from a handful of staff to an organization of 400 people overseeing business development, LNG terminal operations, marine operations including the chartering of two LNG tankers, FERC regulated pipeline development and operation, community affairs, regulatory affairs, and with senior involvement in risk management, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, IT, and all aspects of corporate growth.

Mr. Meyer is a graduate of the Rice University MBA program, with an undergraduate degree in Finance from Wayne State University in Michigan. Mr. Meyer has served as guest lecturer for Duke University, Louisiana State University, and Rice University, and is a frequent public speaker on various energy topics. Mr. Meyer also serves as the Chairman of the Biofuels Advisory Committee for World Energy magazine.

James Hardin is a molecular biologist by training with a Ph.D. from Purdue University and postdoctoral training at Harvard University. He spent 25 years as a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine - University of Arkansas for medical sciences and Saint Louis University. He was COO/Executive Vice President of the John Wayne Cancer Center where he oversaw a staff of 200. He was CEO of Mitos Pharmaceutical and has reviewed and made funding decisions on over 50 biotechnology companies. He has testified before national and state legislative committees.

Hoyt Isom, CIO Marketing, Media & Public Affairs

With a technical education from the University of Cincinnati, Industrial Design and Communications, has over 27 years of strategic planning, design, management and execution experience of large-scale international design build projects in the land development arena for clients such as Ford Motor Company, AT&T, Paramount Studios, Trizeck-Hahn, Fiat, JMB Federated, Time Warner. Leading design teams from concept through execution on projects ranging up to 500mm and the start up and expansion of over 100 companies. Additionally has prepared and successfully made numerous land use and zoning application changes working with a wide array of agency and regulatory officials.

Robert Hughling,

Mr. Hughling is a graduate of both Northern Arizona University and Pacific Coast Banking School, University of Washington. After 32 years in the banking industry, Mr. Hughling retired from a position as President of Desert Community Bank in 2003. He then formed Western Cities Financial to provide construction financing for independent contractors, while assisting clients in obtaining commercial financing. Mr. Hughling joined SunEco as Vice President of Finance in January 2009.

Heidi Gautschi, Corporate Secretary, Board Member

27 years of administration, human resources and financial reporting in the Banking, Health Care and Engineering construction Industries.

Laura Anderson, Logistics & Vendor Interface

8 years Oil & Gas construction logistics for on/off shore rigs and OSHA safety compliance inspection protocols for Exxon, Valero and CITGO. Complimented by 6 years sales & marketing consulting in technology including inventory control, CRM/ERP implementation/maintenance, point of sales date analysis, vendor interface for Ingram Micro, Samsonite, CDW, Best Buy, Amazon, Tom-Tom.

Steve Peters, International Affairs

National & International Broker Naftx Petro Energy, Director of Business Development Over 15 years experience in petroleum/energy projects in the United States and abroad.

John Harpster, Senior Process Control

14 years in the design, engineering and execution of custom feed mill solutions and commercial fluids process control applications across North America, utilizing proprietary processes to provide an unmatched level of asset/nutrition control for commercial producers such as Carnation, Land O Lakes, Con Agra, Cargill, Manna Pro.

Technical Advisors

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Department of Regenerative Studies

Dr. Ahmadzadeh, PhD. Bio-Chemist & Dr. Murry, PhD. Micro-Biologist

Both with over 20 yrs each of algae growth and separation experience. Serving as departmental leaders with a mission to advance the principles of environmentally sustainable living through education, research, demonstration and community outreach. Leading SunEco Energy’s growth and media control imitative.

Emerson Process Management

EPM, (emersonprocess.com), is a leading global supplier of products, services, and solutions that measure, analyze, control, automate, and improve process-related operations. With numerous divisions of manufacturing of key algal process components and technical support from a worldwide network. Emerson has contributed numerous analytical components to the Chino process module. Specifically, augmenting best-in-class measurement, analytical, and control products. As well as innovative PlantWeb® architecture, with a broad array of engineering, consulting, maintenance, and project management services. With its global presence providing regional service and replacement and component inventory management and control.

Criterion Automation

With over 50 years of process and facilities manufacturing in the agricultural, food and refinery industries. Integral to the fabrication and design of the Chino process module. They provide complete solutions from mechanical fabrication, "U" and "R" Stamp Code Work and hardware installation to custom application programming and system integration. Integrating the best available software and hardware technologies successfully to provide World Class Automation solutions. Criterion will be providing equipment to be assembled by GRES.