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Govi Rao

Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board of Directors

Govi Rao was formerly Vice President and General Manager of the Philips Solid State Lighting business in North America, responsible for pioneering sustainable technologies such as solid state lighting. Mr. Rao had previously held several leadership roles in Philips Lighting, including Senior Director of its professional lighting business and Vice President of Business Creation and Brand. Mr. Rao is a founding member of the advisory board at the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and he also serves as an advisor on the U.S.-China Center for Sustainability.

Member of the Executive Committee

Robert E. Bachman

Member of the Board of Directors

Robert E. Bachman , 65, is the president and a director of USGT Investors Management Company, Inc., which is the general partner of USGT Investors, LP ("USGT"), a Dallas-based investment/merchant bank founded by Mr. Bachman and two other partners in 1988. USGT works primarily with private equity funds to source and invest in private companies in the United States and internationally. Mr. Bachman and his partners have founded and sold several private companies, including a natural gas marketing company and a reverse mortgage company. Mr. Bachman received a B.A. from Bowdoin College and an MBA from Columbia University. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

Member of the Audit Committee

David Bell

Member of the Board of Directors

Operating Advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. Chairman Emeritus and former Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Interpublic Group.

Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Executive Committee

Donald R. Harkleroad

Member of the Board of Directors

Donald R. Harkleroad , 62, currently serves as president of The Bristol Company and has served in that position for more than five years. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, The Bristol Company and its subsidiaries comprise a diversified investment and management holding company with interests in finance, food, and technology. Mr. Harkleroad is a graduate of the University of Georgia and of the New York University School of Law, where he was a Weinfeld Associate and editor-in-chief of The Journal of International Law & Politics . Mr. Harkleroad is past chairman of the International Law Section and of the Corporation and Banking Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, as well as chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. He also served for several years as adjunct professor of law at Emory Law School, teaching in the areas of corporate, partnership, and tax law. He is a director of the Society of International Business Fellows, a member of the World Economic Forum, and a director of several public and private companies and charitable organizations.

Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Member of the Executive Committee

Rick Kelson

Member of the Board of Directors

Operating Advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. and former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alcoa, Inc.

Chair of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Executive Committee
Member of the Sustainability Committee

Bonnie Reiss

Member of the Board of Directors

Operating Advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. and former President of Inner City Games Foundation. Also, former Senior Advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Chair of the Sustainability Committee

Daryl N. Snadon

Member of the Board of Directors

Daryl N. Snadon , 60, is the owner of Beltway Development Company, a Dallas-based real estate development company with a 35-year operating history and has served in that position since the company's inception. Mr. Snadon is the principal owner of 25 separate commercial properties in Texas and other states. He serves as an officer and director of numerous privately held corporations, as managing partner of numerous joint ventures, and as a member or partner of numerous limited liability companies and partnerships. Mr.Snadon obtained a degree in economics and accounting at the University of Missouri and continued at the University of Missouri Law School earning a Juris Doctorate. He then attended the Southern Methodist University Law School in Dallas, Texas doing post-doctoral work toward an advanced tax degree. Mr. Snadon was licensed as an attorney in the states of Texas and Missouri, and holds a real estate broker's license in the state of Texas.

Member of the Compensation Committee

Richard Weinberg

Member of Board of the Directors

Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P.

Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Executive Committee