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MANAGEMENT2008
Company Directors -- left to right:
Dr. Barry Iseard, V.P., Dr. Karl Kordesch, V.P., (Directors Sonny Spoden [CFO], Kim Kawasaki [VP])
APOLLO ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC. & SUBSIDIARY “APOLLO” or “THE COMPANY”
MANAGEMENT, KEY PERSONNEL AND
Officers and Directors, ZJG Traction Plastics
Limited, China
KEY PERSONNEL FOR THE APOLLO FUEL CELL PROJECT IN AUSTRIA Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Karl Kordesch
INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY Prof. Dr. Jurgen Otto Besenhard, Director of the Institute Dipl. Ing. Gerold Koscher
Dipl. Ing. Thomas Hejze, Engineer
INSTITUTE FOR HIGH VOLTAGE Prof. Dr. Hans Stigler, Director of the Institute Prof. Dr. Viktor Hacker, Team Leader Dipl. Ing.Peter Enzinger, Engineer
BACKGROUND OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
In 1960 RRA set up a battery plant in New Orleans, Louisiana, Battery Power Incorporated, and moved the Puerto Rico operation there after the tax exemption period had expired. In 1966, he invented the "Tri-Polar Lead-Cobalt Battery" (Lead Cobalt Battery) and moved the New Orleans operation to Detroit where he formed a new company, Electric Fuel Propulsion Corporation (EFP), which produced Lead Cobalt Batteries for electric vehicles until 1980. EFP also developed electric propulsion system components for electric vehicles such as electric motors, controllers and chargers, and produced over 100 electric vehicles, most of which were sold to electric utility companies. RRA has been granted 16 patents in 14 countries on the Lead Cobalt Battery, and 11 patents in 6 countries on electric vehicles and electric vehicle systems, all of which were assigned to EFP. (Other EFP engineers and designers were granted 10 patents on electric vehicles and electric vehicle systems, which were also assigned to EFP). In 1980 EFP granted a license to Electric Auto Corporation (Bahamas) Limited (EABL) in Freeport, Bahamas to manufacture electric cars and Lead Cobalt Batteries. RRA, and his son, Raymond Douglas, set up the battery operation for EABL. RRA also established Ross Manufacturing Corporation (Delaware) in 1988 to handle export/import business with the Bahamas and other countries. This operation has continued until the present time. In 1985 RRA formed Bahamas Smelting & Refining (BSR) Limited in Freeport, Bahamas to manufacture batteries and assemble electric vehicles. BSR was granted a license to do so under the Industries Encouragement Act. However, the Bahamas Environmental Protection Agency decided against a large scale battery operation in the Bahamas and therefore BSR was converted to an assembler of electric golf carts and has continued in that business until the present time, assembling golf carts, from imported kits, and selling them throughout the 30 islands of the Bahamas. In 1986 RRA was invited by McDonnell Douglas to participate in its Korea and China Offset Program. He formed two companies in Hong Kong for this purpose, Traction Batteries Limited (Traction) and Revpower Limited (Revpower). Traction contracted with Nambang Corporation of Seoul, Korea to produce dry charged industrial battery cells. Traction designed and built industrial battery jar and cover molds and other special equipment for the Nambang factory and proceeded to produce battery cells in 1987 and 1988 for sale to its customers in the U.S.A. and Canada. Traction became profitable in 1988 and is still audited by Ernst & Young in Hong Kong. In 1988 Nambang sold out to a European battery manufacturer and Traction moved its battery business to China to be taken over by Revpower. In 1988 Revpower signed a contract with a Chinese Government-owned entity to establish a battery plant in Shanghai. After the plant was built and operating, it was confiscated by that Government entity which now owes Revpower US$12 million as a result of a Swedish arbitration award granted to Revpower in 1993. In 1990, Traction signed a contract with another Chinese Government-owned entity to establish a battery plant in Zhang Jia Gang, Jiangsu Province, China. After the plant was built and operating, Apollo signed a Letter of Intent to purchase the plant on condition that the Revpower arbitration award would be paid. As of July, 2000, the award had not been paid and therefore Apollo did not proceed with the project. In 1994 RRA established Electric Auto Corporation, a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (name changed to Apollo Energy Systems, Inc.), to manufacture Lead Cobalt Batteries, Fuel Cells, electric propulsion system components and electric vehicles under a worldwide exclusive license from EFP. RRA served in the U.S. Army during World War II, studied mechanical and chemical engineering at the University of Idaho and was graduated from Woodbury University in Los Angeles, California with a B.A. Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Business Administration, with a major in Foreign Trade, and minor in accounting. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, a director of the Small Business Exporters Association of Washington, D.C., a member of the Bretton Woods Committee of Washington, D.C. and a member of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D. C. and Miami, Florida. In 1942, RRA won the Los Angeles, California City Chess Championship after having been High School Chess Champion in Los Angeles (all Los Angeles High Schools) from 1939 to 1942.
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PUBLICATIONS: The MARS II Electric Car, SAE Report 680429, May, 1988, Society of Automotive Engineers. Robert R. Aronsson, Electric Fuel Propulsion Incorporated. Three Developmental Electric Cars Show Major Differences, SAE Journal, November 1968, Vol. 76, No. 11, Society of Automotive Engineers. L. Martland and A.E. Lynes, Ford Motor Co. Ltd.; L. R. Foote, Ford Motor Company; Bruce R. Laumeister, General Electric Company; Robert R. Aronsson, Electric Fuel Propulsion Inc.. Long Life Expectance of Alkaline Fuel Cells in Hybrid Vehicles, IECEC-98-000, August, 1998, 33rd Intersociety Engineering Conference on Energy Conversion, Colorado Springs, Colorado. K. Kordesch and G. Gsellmann, Technical University of Graz, Austria; Robert Raymond Aronsson, Electric Auto Corporation. New Aspects for Hybrid Electric Vehicles with Alkaline Fuel Cells and RAM™ Batteries, November, 1988, Electro-Chemical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Karl Kordesch, Josef Gsellmann, Susanne Voss and Martin Cifrain, Technical University of Graz, Austria; Josef Daniel-Ivad, Battery Technologies, Inc., Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Robert Raymond Aronsson, Electric Auto Corporation. Large Fuel Cells and a Fuel Especially for Electric Vehicles. Annual International Power Source Conference, August 26-28, 1998, Nagoya, Japan. Long life performance of alkaline fuel cells in hybrid vehicles. Karl Kordesch, Josef Gsellmann, Susanne Voss and Martin Cifrain, Technical University of Graz, Institute for Inorganic Technology, A-8010, Graz, Austria. Robert Raymond Aronsson, Electric Auto Corporation Fort Lauderdale, Fl, 33308, U.S.A. . Revival of Alkaline Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems for Electric Vehicles. November, 1998, Palm Springs California. Karl Kordesch, Josef Gsellmann and Martin Cifrain, Technical University of Graz, Austria. Robert R. Aronsson, Electric Auto Corporation. Intermittent Use of Low-Cost AFC-Hybrid System for Electric Vehicles. May, 1999, 21st International Power Sources Symposium, Brighton, England; and Journal of Power Sources 80 (1999) 190-197. Karl Kordesch, Josef Gsellmann, Martin Cifrain, Susanne Voss and Viktor Hacker, Technical University of Graz, Austria; Christoph Fabjan and Thomas Hejze, Technical University Vienna, Austria; Josef Daniel-Ivad, Battery Technologies, Inc., Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Robert Aronsson, Electric Auto Corporation. Alkaline Fuel Cell for Electric Vehicles. 3rd International Fuel Cell Conference, Nagoya, Japan, November 30 - December 3, 1999. Viktor Hacker, Gottfried Faleschini, Peter Enzinger, Michael Muhr, Kurt Friedrich, Innovative Energy Technology, Institute of High Voltage Engineering, Technical University of Graz, Austria; Robert Raymond Aronsson of Electric Auto Corporation. Developing Transportation Applications for Fuel Cells. December, 2001, CBI's 4th Business Case for Fuel Cell - Fuel Cell Conference, Dec 3 -4, 2001, Miami, Florida. Karl Kordesch, Martin Cifrain, Josef Gsellmann, Viktor Hacker, and Gottfried Faleschini, Technical University Vienna, Austria; Robert Aronsson of Apollo Energy Systems, Inc.
He began his career in the battery business when he was nine years old assisting his father in taking battery voltage, current and time readings during road tests of the MARS I Electric Car which was built by RRA and RD in 1966 in New Orleans, Louisiana. After RRA moved the battery manufacturing operation to Detroit, Michigan, RD worked on the weekends in the plant doing odd jobs. In 1970 RD designed an electric propulsion system for an electric go-cart, and built and sold six "Lightning bolt 1" Electric Go-Carts. In 1978 he worked in the summer time at the battery and electric vehicle facility of Electric Fuel Propulsion Corporation (EFP) in Detroit and built the first two sets of Lead-Cobalt Batteries for the first two Silver Volt Electric Cars made in 1978. EFP licensed its technology to Electric Auto Corporation (Bahamas) Limited (EABL) of Freeport, Bahamas in 1980. RD and his father set up the battery plant for EABL and RD trained the EABL workers in the production of Lead Cobalt Batteries for the Silver Volts. EABL subsequently built 12 Silver Volt Electric Cars. These were equipped with Lead Cobalt Batteries manufactured under the direction of RD. In 1988, RD joined Ross Manufacturing Corporation as Vice President in charge of export/import operations. In 1991, RD made an agreement with the largest fiberglass manufacturer in China (which had been previously selected as a source for fiberglass separators for batteries) to manufacture fiberglass game-fish replicas. RD proceeded to develop the business, training the Chinese workers at their home base, China and in Ft. Lauderdale Florida in the art of producing the product. The fiberglass molds were made at Ross's shop in Pompano Beach, Florida (from freshly caught gamefish), then shipped to China where the replica gamefish ("blanks") were made. The blanks were then shipped to Pompano Beach shop where they were painted and finished for sale.
This entire operation was initiated and developed by RD. In 1996 Ross
spun off this division into a new corporation called King Sailfish Mounts
(KSM) with RD as Chief Executive Officer. KSM has developed sales
throughout the U.S.A. and in 30 countries abroad. Sales are increasing by
about 30% per year and the operation is profitable. KSM is now
the largest producer of mounted gamefish in the world. RD was graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1987 with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, having majored in accounting.
Sonny Spoden , is an outside Director of Apollo and Chairman of the Board’s Audit Committee. It is planned that he will become active as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Mr. Spoden was a Partner in Ernst & Young's National Office in New York, New
York from 1988 to 1995. He was involved in financial and management
consulting services which included financial reporting and accounting
requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Internal Revenue
Service and other regulatory agencies, risk management, technical accounting
and auditing support for Ernst & Young's General Counsel's office in class
action litigation and other legal and regulatory matters. He served as
senior accounting and auditing member of legal defense teams in financial
report litigation and regulatory investigations.
Professor Dr. Karl Kordesch. is a Vice President and Director of the Company, having joined the Company in 1997 and is active in the day to day affairs of Apollo from his offices in Ohio and Austria. He is in charge of the Company's Fuel Cell Development at the Technical University of Graz, Austria, and the Technical University Vienna in Austria, heading up a team of scientists and engineers He studied chemistry and physics at the University of Vienna, Austria, and received his Doctorate from that university in 1948. From 1953 to 1955 he was a Scientific Staff member of the U.S. Signal Corp., Fort Monmouth, and managed its battery section which resulted in several patents assigned to the U.S. Government. From 1955 to 1977, he worked for Union Carbide Corporation. He started out as a Scientist, Group Leader, then Department Head and finally Corporate Research Fellow in the fields of batteries and fuel cells. He was granted 60 patents in batteries and electrochemical systems, all assigned to Union Carbide. He invented the Alkaline Primary Battery Cell which replaced the Zinc-Carbon flashlight batteries. Eveready, Energizer, Duracell and Rayovac now have 75% of the Alkaline Primary Cell market in the U.S.A. He developed Hydrazine and Alkaline Fuel Cells in cooperation with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and NASA. In 1966 he developed a new, thin carbon electrode and, based on this, his group built a 150 kW Alkaline Fuel Cell for the General Motors "Electrovan", and a 90 kW Alkaline Fuel Cell for the Ford Motor Company. In 1970 he built an Alkaline Fuel Cell/Battery Hybrid Electric Car based on an A-40 Austin and drove it for his own personal transportation needs for over three years. The Fuel Cell was installed in the trunk of the car and hydrogen tanks on the roof, leaving room for 4-passengers in the 4-door car. Thus, he was the first person in the world to have produced and driven a practical Fuel Cell/Battery Electric Car. While at Union Carbide, he also started development of a rechargeable alkaline flashlight battery which was later marketed under the Eveready brand. In 1977 he took early retirement from Union Carbide and was offered the position as Full Professor to the chairs of Electrochemistry at the Technical University Vienna, Austria, -- or Head of the Institute of Inorganic Technology and Analytic Chemistry at the Technical University of Graz in Austria. He accepted the latter position and remained as Director of the Institute until 1992. He now serves as Professor Emeritus with that Institute with an office, laboratory and staff at his disposal. While Director of the Institute at the Technical University of Graz, he directed work on electrochemical systems under contracts with Varta Batteries in Germany and other European battery manufacturers. He also headed the Austrian Government Scientific Program, managing a 1984-89 joint five-year program with eight different participating Austrian Universities and Industrial Groups covering Fuel Cell Systems, Zinc-Bromine Batteries, Bipolar Batteries, Catalysts, Environmental Studies, among others. From 1981 to 1985 he served as Secretary General of the International Society for Electrochemistry (ISE) and is a member of several other scientific and technical societies. In 1986, he received the Technology Award of the U.S.-Electrochemical Society (Vittorio De Nora Gold Medal). In 1990 he received the Austria State Energy Prize and the Ernst Schroedinger Prize. In 1991 he was awarded the Frank M. Booth Prize of the Royal Society of Great Britain. In 1992 he was awarded the Auer V. Welsbach Medal. In 1986 he was a co-founder of Batteries Technologies Incorporated ( BTI) in Toronto, Canada and became the Senior Vice President of Research & Development. Twenty (20) patents were granted to him and assigned to BTI on Rechargeable Alkaline Manganese Dioxide (RAM) Batteries (small batteries for flashlights and small appliances, not competitive with AES's Lead Cobalt Batteries). BTI has licensees in the U.S.A. (RAYOVAC), in Korea (YOUNG POONG), Malaysia and Austria (GRAND BATTERY INC [GBY] ), and in Germany (BATTERY INNOVATION GROUP [BIG] ). In 1988, he formed Kordesch & Associates, Inc. and acts as a consulting company in Canada, serving BTI and others. Between 1988 and 1993, he participated in the European Space Agency (ESA) Program developing an Alkaline Matrix Fuel Cell for the manned Space Vehicles HERMES under contracts between the Technical University of Graz, Dornier and Siemens. In 1990 he received an Honorary Doctorate of the Technical University of Vienna. He wrote several books on batteries, electric vehicles and fuel cells, the latest being Fuel Cells and their Application published by Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH (VCH) in Germany, Switzerland, UK, USA, Canada and Japan in 1996, and has written over 200 technical publications. In 1997, in cooperation with Energy Ventures Inc. (EVI) of Canada, he managed a development program for the National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, covering rechargeable Nickel-Zinc and Zinc-Carbon Batteries with Austria Government participation. He is head of research of EVI. In 1997 he joined Apollo Energy Systems, Inc. as a Director and Vice President in charge of fuel cell development. The front cover of Professor Dr. Karl Kordesch's latest book is shown below.
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Dr. Barry Iseard, is a Vice President and Director of the Company and resides in Freeport, Bahamas. It is planned that he will relocate to Florida and assume the responsibilities as Science and Engineering Coordinator for Apollo. He also is Vice President and General Manager of Bahamas Smelting & Refining Limited (BSR) in Freeport, Bahamas (a company owned by RRA), having served in that capacity since 1986. BSR imports knocked-down electric golf carts from several sources (EZ Go, Club Car, Yamaha, etc.) and assembles them in Freeport for sale throughout the Islands of The Bahamas. From 1980 to 1986, he was Vice President of Anglo-American Research Limited of Freeport, Bahamas, a licensee of Electric Auto Corporation [Bahamas] Limited (EABL) in the development of batteries, electric propulsion system components and electric vehicles. He was granted two patents on battery and fuel cell systems, which have been assigned, to Apollo. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Exeter University (U.K.), a Master of Science Degree in Organometallic Chemistry and a Doctorate in Thermo chemistry from Sussex University in England.
Dr. T. Nejat Veziroglu is a Vice President of Apollo and Advisor to the Company on Hydrogen Production for fuel cells. He is a native of Turkey, graduated from the City and Guilds College, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of, London, with degrees in Mechanical Engineering (A.C.G.I., Sc.), Advanced Studies in Engineering (D.I.C.) and Heat Transfer (Ph.D.). In 1962, after serving in some Turkish government agencies as a Technical Consultant and Deputy Director of Steel Silos, and then heading a private company, he joined the University of Miami Engineering Faculty. In 1965, he became the Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering, and two years later initiated the first Ph.D. Program in the School of Engineering and Architecture. He served as Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1971 through 1975, and was the Associate Dean for Research of the School of Engineering and Architecture, 1975 through 1979. At present, he is the director of the Clean Energy Research Institute at the University of Miami, which acts as the focal point of energy and environment related research and information dissemination activities. Dr. Veziroglu teaches Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Hydrogen Energy and Nuclear Engineering. His research interests are instabilities in Boiling Water Reactors, Interstitial Heat Transfer, Renewable Energy Sources and Hydrogen Energy System. He has published some 200 scientific reports and papers, edited 160 volumes of proceedings, and are the editor-in-chief of the monthly scientific journals International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and International Journal of Energy Environment Economics. He has been an invited lecturer and/or consultant on energy research and education to many countries, including USSR, People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, Japan, Canada, Germany, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Philippines, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia. Dr. Veziroglu organized the first major conference on Hydrogen Energy: The hydrogen Economy Miami Energy (THEME) Conference, Miami Beach, March 1974. This conference considered hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels, as a clean, renewable fuel, and aroused wide interest throughout the world. Subsequently, Dr. Veziroglu has organized several conferences and symposia on energy and environment related subjects such as Hydrogen Energy, Remote Sensing Applied to Energy Problems, Ocean Energy Systems, Multi-Phase Flows, and Biosphere: Problems and Solutions, and Energy and Environment. Dr. Veziroglu has memberships in eighteen scientific organizations, has been elected to the grade of Fellow in the British I Institution of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the Founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy. In recognition of the high quality of his research, Dr. Veziroglu has been the recipient of several international awards. He was presented the Turkish Presidential Science Award in 1974, made an Honorary Professor in Xian Jiaotong University of China in 1981, and awarded the 1. V. Kurchatov Medal by the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy of USSR in 1982 and Energy for Mankind Award by the Global Energy Society in 1986. Apollo Energy Systems, Inc. feels very honored to have such a distinguished and accomplished scientist and visionary on its team.
In 2002 Hydrolec signed a Letter of Intent with Apollo Energy Systems under which Hydrolec will assemble, for the elevator industry, Apollo Power Plants from Apollo Fuel Cells, Lead Cobalt Batteries and other components to be supplied to Hydrolec by Apollo. Hydrolec has given Apollo an order to supply Apollo Power Plants as a backup for hydraulic and electric elevator systems.. Mr. Kawasaki has attracted several investors to his company, including Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries of Tokyo, Japan (www.ihi.co.jp) and Hydrolux Limited, an elevator systems company in Luxembourg. Ishikawajima is developing a high temperature fuel cell in Japan and is interested in other types of fuel cells.
Hydrolec has placed an order with Apollo for Apollo Power Plants to be used
as emergency back for hydraulic elevator systems. As many of
these Power Plants may derive hydrogen from ammonia, Hydrolec may become a
subcontractor to Apollo in the production of Ammonia Crackers and partial
assembly of Apollo Fuel Cells for the elevator market.
Richmond Terry, is Vice President of Manufacturing and will take charge of fuel cell manufacturing at the Company’s planned fuel cell factory number 2, in Alabama. Mr. Terry started his career with West Point Manufacturing Company, now WestPoint Stevens, in 1950, as a wage-hour employee. Upon completion of military service with the U.S. Air Force, he returned to West Point Manufacturing Company and completed their Co-op Scholarship Program. His responsibilities began with the job of Supervisor and progressed through Department Manager, Assistant Plant Manager, Plant Manager, Division Vice President of Manufacturing to Corporate Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Services, the position he held at retirement in March, 1999. Departments reporting to Mr. Terry included Engineering and Environmental, Purchasing, Transportation, Chemical Plant, Real Estate and Corporate Services. WestPoint Stevens is the leading U.S. manufacturer of bed and bath products, including sheets, pillowcases, comforters, blankets, bedspreads, towels and related products with plants through the United States and overseas with annual sales exceeding $1.8 billion. Mr. Terry was graduated from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama in 1959 and a B.S. degree in Textile Management. Mr. Terry was inducted in Phi Psi and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Fraternities.
George Moon, Vice President, Battery Production and will supervise battery production at the Company’s battery subcontractor in Miami, Florida. Mr. Moon has worked as a sales manager of industrial batteries for Crown Battery Company of Fremont, Ohio from 1992 to 2000. Prior to that, he was the President and CEO of Pilot Battery, Incorporated of Kankakee, Illinois, an industrial manufacturing company he founded in 1979. In 1991 he sold the company to Chloride Batteries of the United Kingdom. Form 1967 to 1979 he worked for Gould, Incorporated, the second largest producer of industrial batteries in the USA as Manager of Process Engineering and Quality Control. Mr. Moon is a full member of the American Society of Quality Control. Mr. Moon studied at Oliver Nazarene College of Kankakee, Illinois as a Science Major from 1954 to 1960 and at Governors State University in Park Forrest from 1973 to 1976 earning a degree in Organizational Management and Environmental Law.
He studied mechanical engineering and business management and was graduated from Advanced Schools, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois earning a Degree in Electrical Science. Mr. Scrattish started his battery career with Globe Union division of Johnson Controls working at various engineering jobs from 1966 to 1974. He later worked for Douglas Battery Manufacturing Company from 1974 to 1983; for Prestolite Battery Division of Allied-Signal from 1983 to 1985; and for Miami Battery Corporation from 1985 to 1990. Since 1990, he has operated his own battery consulting company, Pb Plus, Incorporated, near Fort Lauderdale, Florida performing battery engineering services for a number of battery manufacturers in the U.S.A. and abroad including the Zhang Jia Gang Industrial Battery Plant established by RRA in China. He served in Vietnam with the United States Army in the infantry and was later promoted as a communications specialist. He earned an honorable discharge in 1970 with the grade of E-5 and was offered a field commission to Second Lieutenant.
Richard McLean, resides in Freeport, Bahamas and is a Vice President of the Apollo. He will relocate to Florida and work for the Company when Apollo opens its vehicle prototype shop inside Apollo’s planned fuel cell factory number 1 in Florida. He now works for the Company on a part time basis, visiting Apollo’s Pompano Beach, Florida facility several times a year. He presently works for Bahamas Smelting & Refining Limited of Freeport, Bahamas (owned by RRA) in charge of electric golf cart assembly. He studied Electrical Engineering while in the United States Air Force in 1966 and has since developed a rich background in electric vehicle engineering. In 1974 he joined the engineering staff of Electric Fuel Propulsion Corporation (EFP) in Detroit, Michigan. Among his many accomplishments, he developed EFP's 45-KW Mobile Power Plant which can be used for fast charging batteries of various sizes in electric vehicles in stationary or mobile operation. In 1978 he was instrumental in developing the electric propulsion system for the Silver Volt Electric Car, as a pure electric car, and in 1980 he developed a battery/engine hybrid system for the car which incorporated a small rotary engine in parallel with the Lead Cobalt Batteries for range extension. He will use this background and technology in developing an Electric Propulsion System (battery/fuel cell hybrid system) for electric vehicles to be supplied to Apollo by Voltage Vehicles. It is anticipated that the Apollo Electric Propulsion System will also be supplied to one or more major auto makers in the USA and abroad.
Yao Ke Li, is Managing Director of Zhangjiagang Traction Plastics Limited (TPL) of Shanghai, China, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo. He is responsible for TPL's industrial battery jar and cover molds and other equipment which are stored in a bonded warehouse in Shanghai. Mr. Yao is holding preliminary conversations with several companies in Shanghai who are interested in purchasing Apollo™ Fuel Cells, Ammonia Crackers and Lead Cobalt Batteries for use in electric vehicles. He is also negotiating with Dong Feng Motor Corporation, the largest automaker in China, for a license to produce the Silver Volt II Electric Car, Lead Cobalt Batteries and Apollo™ Fuel Cells. He worked for the Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Shanghai Aviation Industries Corporation in engineering and executive capacities from 1962 to 1988. From 1988 to 1990 he was President of Shanghai Xuhui Corporation, an import and export corporation specializing in machinery and equipment. He studied aeronautical engineering at the Harbin Aeronautical Institute, receiving a Master of Arts Degree in 1962.
ADVISORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2008
Dr. Manfred Kuehnle, President and CEO of the MRK Group of Companies consisting of XMX Corporation (Electromagnetic Resonance Materials, Particles and Coatings); Image Science Company, LLC (Digital Color Image Acquisition and Printing Products); Saphir Motor Corporation (High-Efficiency Engine and Compressor Systems); and Toroidal Power Systems Company, LLC (Electric Wheel Motors and Torque Conversion Systems). Besides being a very successful businessman, Dr. Kuehnle is a prolific inventor with over 600 patents in his name. Most of the US government-owned satellites are equipped with Dr. Kuehnle’s optical systems. Of especial interest to Apollo is Dr. Kuehnle’s high torque, light weight Wheel Motors and Toroidal Power Drives which can be installed in automobiles, trucks, buses, fork lift trucks and golf carts. Apollo intends to use these unique products in its ASV-1 Air Supported Electric Car (see this vehicle in Order on Internet section) and has signed a Letter of Intent with Toroidal Power Systems Company covering the purchase of these motors and drive systems. Photo of Dr. Kuehnle
Mr. Steven M. Schneider, founder
and President of Voltage Vehicles, a full-service alternative fuel vehicle
distributor specializing in the full spectrum of electric vehicles (EV) and
full-performance alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) including automobiles,
motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, hovercraft, neighborhood electric vehicles
(NEV), commercial vehicles and accessories. He also founded Auto
Distributors, Inc., which is the promotion and distribution arm of Voltage
Vehicles’ dealerships. Mr. Schneider is Chairman of the Board of ZAP, a
publicly held company (symbol ZAPP). Upon completion of the ZAP – Voltage
Vehicle merger, Mr. Schneider will also be appointed as the CEO of ZAP.
Nicholas J. Maroulis, a native of Greece and USA citizen, is Co-CEO and Director of Fuel Cell Technology Transit Inc. (FCTT) with offices in Sand Key, Florida, Athens and Thessalonica, Greece. FCTT is the exclusive distributor for Apollo in Greece and its 4,000 islands and plans to sell Apollo Power Plants to small hotels and guesthouses on these islands, and to thousands of boat owners who ply the waters between these islands. FCTT also plans to sell Apollo Electric Propulsion Systems to taxi and bus fleets in Athens where internal combustion vehicles are banned.
Dr. Christos P. Tsokos, a native of Greece and USA citizen, is Co-CEO and Director of Fuel Cell Technology Transit Inc. (FCTT) with offices in Sand Key, Florida, Athens and Thessalonica, Greece. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He received his PhD from the University of Connecticut in Mathematics and studied at the University of Rhode Island, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Tsokos has written twelve textbooks and authored over 200 technical publications. He is a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, NASA, U.S. army, U.S. Navy and U.S. air Force.
Professor C.C. Chan of the University of Hong Kong
joined Apollo's Advisory Board of Directors in July 2004. Professor Chan has
had a long history in the development of electric vehicles for the Orient.
He received his Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1982 from the
University of Hong Kong and became Head of the Department of Electrical &
Electronic Engineering at that University where he is now an Honorary
Professor.
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Auditors |
McGladrey & Pullen |
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Stock Transfer Agent |
Computershare Trust Company, Inc. |
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Patent Attorney |
Pillsbury, Winthrope |
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Legal Counsel |
Gibbs & Associates, P.C. |
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SEC Attorney |
Schneider Weinberger & Beilly LLP |
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Attorney in China |
Shanghai Trend Law Firm |
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Bank |
Bank of America |
