E. Gary Cook, Ph.D
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Dr. Cook is Chairman of the Board of Directors, and prior to the company's incorporation in 2011, served as Chairman of the Management Committee of InEnTec LLC since 2002. He also currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, a building products company. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of LRM Industries, a specialized producer of very large, thermoplastic products. He also serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of InEnTec Chemical LLC, InEnTec's joint venture with Lakeside Energy. Dr. Cook received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University. He joined E. I. DuPont in 1969 as a Research Chemist. He spent 23 years with DuPont, holding a variety of senior management positions, including Vice President of Medical Products, Vice President and General Manager of Publishing and Printing, and Vice President-Corporate Plans. He joined Ethyl Corporation as Senior Vice President and President-Chemicals Group and Director in 1992. In 1994, the Chemicals Group was spun off from Ethyl as the Albemarle Corporation as an independently traded specialty chemical company. Dr. Cook served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Albemarle. He was named Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Witco Corporation in 1996. He served in that capacity until the merger of Witco and Crompton and Knowles in 1999, at which time he was named Chairman of the merged company, CKWitco. Dr. Cook has served on numerous industry association boards, including those of the Chemical Manufacturers Association, the Soap and Detergent Association, the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, and the Health Industry Manufacturers Association.
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Jeffrey E. Surma
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Jeff Surma is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Strategy Officer for InEnTec. He is also President and Chief Executive Officer of S4 Energy Solutions LLC, which was formed in 2009 as a joint venture between Waste Management Inc. and InEnTec and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of InEnTec. Prior to joining InEnTec, Mr. Surma was a senior research engineer at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNNL) where he led multimillion dollar research projects in the areas of high-level radioactive waste vitrification, electrochemical and plasma processing of waste. Mr. Surma is an inventor on 26 US patents and various international patents and has been the author or presenter of over 50 technical papers. Mr. Surma has won the prestigious R&D 100 award four times for his work on plasma processing and associated technologies and was awarded the Pacific Northwest Directors Award for excellence in engineering. Mr. Surma led a multi-institutional team involving PNNL and the Plasma Fusion Center at MIT to develop plasma technologies that have since been commercialized through InEnTec, of which he was a founder and where he served as CEO from 1998 to 2009. Mr. Surma holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University.
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Larry Dinkin
Mr. Dinkin has an extensive background in business startups and management and is one of the founders of InEnTec. He has been the key individual involved in the startup of three prior successful companies. The most recent of these companies, Marie Callender Retail Foods, was grown during Mr. Dinkin's tenure from a startup in 1987 with $2 million of venture capital to a business with over $160 million in sales in 1994 and was sold in September 1994 to Con Agra. During his career, Mr. Dinkin has received several business awards, including Long Island Entrepreneur of the Year from Inc. Magazine and a Clio Award for his Marie Callender design work. He was featured in the June 26, 1995 issue of Advertising Age magazine in the "Marketing 100" (the 100 hottest marketing successes) for the Marie Callender concept. Prior to his startup and management career, Mr. Dinkin was employed as a computer consultant at Univac, and at Coopers and Lybrand.
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Christopher Fanella
Mr. Fanella is an Executive Vice President at Lakeside Energy who focuses on initiating and structuring investment opportunities, arranging financing's, and actively managing investments. Prior to joining Lakeside Energy in 2007, Mr. Fanella served as Vice President of Finance and as a member of the Executive Committee at Primary Energy where his responsibilities included the identification, structuring and execution of all capital transactions. In this role, Mr. Fanella helped raise over $850 million of capital in the private and public debt and equity markets. Mr. Fanella also was responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with the financial community, equity research analysts and credit rating agencies. Prior to joining Primary Energy, Mr. Fanella worked in the Global Industrial and Services Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Fanella graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame.
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Charles A. Galford
Mr. Galford has extensive experience in law, business development, marketing, public relations and media strategies. Mr. Galford received his BA from the University of Michigan and a JD from Yale Law School. He has been a partner in two major Northwest law firms and worked as a marketing executive at Nike, where he helped devise Nike’s Air Jordan and Nike Air strategies. Mr. Galford has owned and operated a sports marketing firm and served as an owner/managing member of a company providing economic development services, including casino development and management, to various Native American tribes. Throughout his career, Mr. Galford has worked for and/or consulted with a large number of Indian tribes and Alaska Native Corporations. Mr. Galford serves as vice-president and board of directors member for various companies owned by the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians, which is located in northern California and has developed several successful business enterprises. The Paskenta Tribe is a major investor in InEnTec and, through one of its companies, Tepa LLC, is a marketing partner with InEnTec for the development of federal contracts using the PEM.
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Peter L. Korn Jr.
Mr. Korn was elected to the Board immediately following the conversion of the Company from an LLC to a corporation in 2011. He is a corporate and securities attorney with substantial experience working with growth companies and the private equity funds investing in those companies. His specialties include corporate finance, particularly venture capital, M&A and general corporate counseling for emerging technology companies. Mr. Korn is a partner at SNR Denton US LLP where he has served as co-head of the firm's US cleantech practice. He earned his J.D. at Duke University School of Law after earning his B.A. in History at Georgetown University.
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