Mr Nichol is a Director of Glasgow- based Trigas Ltd a company set up in 2000 to design and market alternative fuel components.

He was previously a Director of Silver Birch, a Scottish charity providing employment for people with learning disabilities.

Mr Nichol spent most of his career working in the insurance industry, with periods as Manager of the Norwich Union in Glasgow and as General Manager in Ireland.

Mr Patterson is Senior Counsel to the international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, based in Palo Alto, California. His primary focus has been corporate law, with particular emphasis on high tech venturing and on protection and exploitation of Intellectual Property. He has been active in venture capital since the early 1980s, and has been a Director of multiple U.K. and U.S. venture funds and start-up companies. He has been a visiting scholar and is on the Board of the John Foster Center for Private Equity (a research institute for capital formation) at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Mr Patterson is on the Advisory Board of Stanford University’s Greater China Project on regions of innovation and entrepreneurship and is also leading a project to pool cancer research IP from leading U.S. medical institutions.

John M. “Mick” Seidl is the Chairman of the Board of Envirofuels LLC, a private entity in the energy industry headquartered in Houston, Texas. He has held that position since February 2006 and earlier was the Vice Chairman of its Advisory Board. Seidl has been in the energy business in various positions since 1977. He is a member of the Board of Directors of St. Mary Land and Exploration Company (NYSE:SM) which is an exploration and production company headquartered in Denver, CO. Prior to year end 2004, Seidl was Chief Program Officer, Environment for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in San Francisco, California.
Dr. Seidl served in Washington as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Departments on Health, Education and Welfare and Interior. He spent a number of years on the faculty of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and has also taught at the Jones Business School of Rice University. He has held Board and Chief Executive positions in a number of major oil, gas and natural resource companies (Natomas to 1984; Enron to 1989; Maxxam, Kaiser Aluminium and Pacific Lumber Company to 1993). He was President and CEO of CellNet Data Systems, a pioneering provider of remote meter reading networks to the U.S. utility industry. He was also the Chairman and co-founder of myHomeKey.com, and Chairman of Language Line Services Inc.

David Sigsworth is a Chartered Electrical Engineer and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. After spending over ten years as a main board director of FTSE 100 utility companies he retired in March 2005 following a career spanning 43 years in the energy sector. He held several appointments in Yorkshire Electricity Board before joining the North of Scotland Hydro-electric Board in 1987. He was appointed as Commercial Director of Scottish Hydro Electric plc in January 1995 and subsequently held several positions on the board of Scottish and Southern Energy plc (SSE).

During the latter part of his career, he had responsibility for all of SSE’s environmental issues and managed one of the largest and most diverse generation fleets in the UK with over 10,000 MW of plant. He was also responsible for a £1bn programme of investments in renewable generation technologies. Projects included a large new hydro scheme on Loch Ness, tidal stream developments, various micro-generation systems as well as major on and offshore wind farms including the deepwater Talisman project in the Moray Firth.

David is now active in promoting high technology start–up companies, involved in the renewable and sustainable energy markets, and holds several associated Non-Executive Directorships. He is also Chairman of the Dundee Science Centre, Vice President of the Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA), a board member of Energy Action Scotland as well as a trustee of the think tank Sustainability First.

Dr. Thresher is the Director of the National Wind Technology Center in Golden, Colorado, which is a division of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He earned a tenured professorship in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University where he taught courses in Applied Mechanics, and initiated pioneering researcher in the mechanics of Wind Energy Systems during the 1970’s and early 80’s. He joined NREL in 1984 and has provided leadership for the growth of NREL’s wind program from $5MM/year at its inception, to its current level of about $30MM/year. He has published extensively and is recognized internationally as one of the leading experts in research, development and commercialisation of wind technologies. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Panel on Ocean Energy Technologies for the Electric Power Research Institute’s. In 2005, Dr. Thresher was invited to testify before the US Senate’s Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the research and development needed to accelerate the use of Wind and Ocean Technologies on the US Outer Continental Shelf.