Dr. Radlein became a Director of the Company in December 1997 resigned in August 2002 and was re-appointed in August 2003. Dr. Radlein has been the President of RTI - Resource Transforms International Ltd. an R&D company specializing in pyrolysis technology and applications since 1994. Dr. Radlein received a B.Sc. in Chemistry (1986) from the Alcan Scholar University of the West Indies in Jamaica and M.Sc. in Theoretical Chemistry (1970) from the University of Calgary in Alberta. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge England (1975) in Physical Chemistry. Dr. Radlein was also an Associate Research Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Waterloo from 1987 to 1994. He is an inventor or co-inventor of 10 patents on pyrolysis and petroleum processing and has also authored over 20 publications in various scientific journals. Some of his research activities include: pyrolytic production of fermentable sugars fundamental studies on biomass pyrolysis mechanisms catalytic hydropyrolysis for hydrocarbon production and catalyst development for gasification. |