Zero Gravity Solutions Inc
Officers & Directors
Harvey “Kaye” Klebanoff, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Company
Mr. Kaye has served as our Chairman since the Company’s inception as its
current form in December of 2012. From March 2009 to January 2012, Mr. Kaye was
founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Latitude Solutions,
Inc. Latitude Solutions, Inc., a publicly traded holding company for several subsidiaries,
provided products, processes and services for contaminated water applications.
Prior to founding Latitude Solutions, Mr. Kaye was Chief Executive Officer and
President of Gulfstream Capital, L.C., a merchant banking, consulting and financial
advisory organization, which provided advisory and corporate finance, services
to both public and private companies. Gulfstream has acted in a merchant banking,
financial advisory and strategic planning capacity for numerous corporations,
both public and private. Mr. Kaye has a BS in business from Temple University.
Harvey Kaye also serves as a director of Angstrom Technologies, Inc.
Mr. Kaye is well qualified to serve as the Chairman of Board due to his extensive
experience in the management and operation of public and private companies, both
large and small, and his previous leadership experience as an entrepreneur, investment
banker, chairman, chief executive officer and director.
Alexander M. Boies, Director of the Company
Mr. Boies has been a Director of the Company since December 2015. Mr. Boies currently
employed as an associate at the Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP law firm in
New York, NY, where he works with a wide range of clients on complex litigation
matters. He was part of the legal team that won a $663M judgment against a guardrail
maker in a Qui Tam trial. Mr. Boies began working at Boies, Schiller & Flexner
LLP as a summer associate in 2014 and commenced full-time employment in October
2015. From August 2012 until May 2015, Mr. Boies was enrolled as a full-time student
at New York University — School of Law. During the summer of 2013, Mr. Boies
interned at Legal Aid Society in their Bronx, New York — Housing Courthouse
office. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a B.S.
in statistics, Mr. Boies was employed by Livingston Securities, LLC from February
2010 until May 2012, wherein he assisted with a number of private placements and
IPOs, until Mr. Boies resigned in order to pursue his legal degree. Additionally,
Mr. Boies participated in the management of Hawk and Horse Vineyards, a California
company owned and operated by his family since 2001. Mr. Boies also was the Executive
Producer on the film, “Escape Plan.” Mr. Boies brings a wide range
of legal and financial skills and diverse set of experiences to the Board.
Edward F. Cowle, Director of the Company
Mr. Cowle has been a Director of the Company since December 2012. Mr. Cowle has
been a director and former CEO of US Rare Earths, Inc. (Delaware), a company that
U.S. Rare Earths, Inc. (Nevada) acquired in August 2011, and its predecessor Thorium
Energy, Inc., since 2007. USRE is an exploration and development company with
rare earth and thorium deposits in Idaho and Montana. Mr. Cowle was a founder,
and remains a Director, and principal of Laser Technology, Inc., which produces
laser based law enforcement speed guns. Mr. Cowle has also worked closely with
the Office of Industrial Liaison at New York University Medical School, investing
in and incubating several technologies. Mr. Cowle structured a licensing deal
with C. R. Bard for a start-up company that he co-founded with Temple University
Office of Technology Development and Commercialization. He was a founding shareholder
and investor in Biophan Technology and worked closely with management to develop
business, financing, and investor awareness. The company subsequently licensed
and sold its technology to Boston Scientific and Medtronic and the core products
are currently being sold to the medical community. Mr. Cowle was a founder of
Golf Technologies, Inc., the owner and manufacturer of the “Snake Eyes”
brand of golf equipment and apparel. The company was bought by Golfsmith who currently
sells the Snake Eyes line of products. Mr. Cowle formerly served as Senior Vice
President Investments–Paine Webber and Co. and Vice President-Bear Stearns
and Co. He graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1978 with a BA in
English and American studies
We believe Mr. Cowle is well qualified to serve as a member of the Board due to
his extensive experience starting, financing and advising successful small businesses
and the financial acumen he gained from his experience serving in the financial
industry.
Patrick Kennedy, Director and Vice President of Agricultural Business Development
of the Company
Mr. Kennedy has been with ZGSI in his current positions since its inception in
its current form in December 2012. Mr. Kennedy is also a consultant, currently
managing public relations coordination, data, websites and collateral material
for The Williams Investment Companies. From May 2000 to June 2007 Mr. Kennedy
was the President of American Natural Technology Sciences, Inc. Mr. Kennedy has
forty-five years of business experience involving a wide range of skills, including
business development, trade, finance, marketing and sales. He has negotiated,
marketed and consummated over one billion dollars of sales volume. Patrick possesses
valuable industry contracts and has been directly responsible for negotiations
and structuring of marketing and product distribution. From 1977 to 2000 Mr. Kennedy
successfully owned and operated oil companies. Patrick also serves as director
of Axtel Scientific, Inc. and Mitigation of Disease, Inc. He previously served
as director of Digital Stream, Inc.
We believe that Mr. Kennedy is well qualified to serve as a member of the Board
due to his extensive understanding of business development and marketing, as well
as his significant experience working in and with businesses, large and small.
Timothy A. Peach, Chief Financial Officer of the Company
Mr. Peach has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since February
2015. From 2008 until 2014, Mr. Peach served as Chief Financial Officer, Executive
Vice President, and Vice President of Finance of Oncure Medical Corp., a radiation
oncology treatment center management company located in Englewood, CO. From 2004
until 2008, Mr. Peach served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of
Finance for VISTA International Technologies, Inc., a waste to energy technology
company. He served as an SEC and compliance consultant to growing companies from
2003-2004 and was the Vice President Finance and Chief Accounting Officer/Controller
at Convergent Group Corp. from 1998 until 2002. Prior to 2002, he earned his CPA
at PricewaterhouseCoopers and held a variety of senior financial and advisory
positions at Executive Telecard, Ltd., Kaire International and Telectronics Pacing
Systems, Inc. Mr. Peach received his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. Our
Board believes Mr. Peach’s qualifications to serve as our Chief Financial
Officer include his extensive financial and operations experience earned in both
early stage and established companies.
Soumyo Sarkar, Director of the Company
Mr. Sarkar joined the Company’s Board of Directors in December 2015. Mr.
Sarkar has served as Chief Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager of Sumit Capital
LLC, an independent institutionally-orientated investment advisory firm since
its founding in 2010. Founded in 2010, Sumit Capital is a New York based registered
investment advisor. Prior to founding Sumit Capital, Mr. Sarkar was a Managing
Director with Deutsche Bank and the Founder and Head of the Deutsche Bank Matched
Book Arbitrage Group. He ran the Deutsche Bank Matched Book Arbitrage Group from
1995 – 2009. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Soumyo ran a similar strategy
within Credit Suisse proprietary trading group from 1991 – 1995. Prior to
Credit Suisse, Mr. Sarkar held various research and programming roles for over
five years with Solomon Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. He has an
MBA from the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Management and a BTech
from the BHU Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India. We believe Mr. Sarkar
brings an extensive understanding of finance and wide range of experience to the
Board.
Michael T. Smith, Director of the Company
Mr. Smith joined the Company’s Board of Directors in February 2015. He is
the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Hughes Electronics
Corporation, having served from October 1997 to May 2001. From 1985 until 1997
he served in a variety of capacities for Hughes, including Vice Chairman of Hughes
Electronics, Chairman of Hughes Missile Systems and Chairman of Hughes Aircraft
Company. Prior to joining Hughes, he spent nearly 20 years with General Motors
Corporation in a variety of financial management positions. Mr. Smith is currently
a director, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee and Audit Committee
member of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, which provides enabling technologies
for industrial growth markets. He also serves as a director for WABCO Holdings,
Inc., which provides electronic and electromechanical products for the automotive
industry and FLIR Systems, Inc., which produces infrared cameras, thermal imaging
software and temperature measurement devices. He previously served as a director
of ATK Alliant Techsystems, Inc., an advanced weapon and space systems company,
from 1997 to 2009, Anteon International Corporation, an information technology
and systems engineering solutions company, from 2005 to 2006, Ingram Micro Corporation,
a technology sales, marketing and logistics company from 2001 to 2014. Mr. Smith
holds a B.A. Degree in Political Science from Providence College and an MBA from
Babson College and served as an officer in the United States Army.
We believe Mr. Smith brings strong financial skills that are important in the
understanding and oversight of our financial reporting and corporate governance
matters, along with expertise in corporate governance, enterprise risk management
and strategic planning, which we believe qualify him provide guidance as a Director
to the Company
Glenn A. Stinebaugh – President and Acting Chief Executive Officer of the
Company; President and Chief Executive Officer, BAM Inc.
Mr. Stinebaugh has served as our President and Active Chief Executive Officer
since November 2014 and Chief Executive Officer of BAM Inc., our subsidiary since
October 2014. Prior to this, he served as an Advisor to the Chairman of the Board
of Zero Gravity Solutions, Inc. From February 2010 to August 2014 he was Managing
Member of MGA Holdings, LLC, developing and initiating sustainable economic development
and agricultural initiatives, domestically and internationally. From July 2007
to August 2014 Mr. Stinebaugh also served as Secretary for First America Equity
Trust, a Real Estate Investment Trust developing renewable energy initiatives,
with a focus on biomass-to-energy projects. From January 2002 to July 2007 Mr.
Stinebaugh was Managing Member of Marketing Group of the Americas, LLC where he
oversaw the development of strategic partnerships in the Americas, as well as,
the development of market entry strategies for US-based agricultural, food and
technology companies in their efforts to penetrate the Chile and South American
markets. From January 1998 to December 2002, Mr. Stinebaugh was a Director of
AMR Research, Inc., a Boston-based IT research firm.
Biographies of Key Employees
John W. Kennedy, Chief Science Officer of the Company
John W. Kennedy has been with ZGSI since its inception as the current company
in 2012 and was instrumental in its creation. He has 40 years’ experience
in applied research, botany, biology, physics, nutrition, biochemistry and discoveries
associated with health, disease, plant and biological sciences and technologies.
Mr. Kennedy has been operating John W. Kennedy Consultants, Inc. since November
1979, which represents companies and associations in clearance and registration
of pesticides at federal and state agencies. Mr. Kennedy is also president and
chairman of Axtel Scientific, Inc., a Nevada corporation, established October
18, 2012, which was licensed by Mr., Kennedy’s IP to commercialize a unique
modality for mitigation of several cellular devastating diseases. Zero Gravity
Incorporated was a former company owned by Mr. Kennedy that collaborated through
a Space Act Agreement with NASA on six space shuttle launches carrying experiments
to the International Space Station for plant and animal studies. This corporation
was discontinued shortly after the incorporation of ZGSI. Mr. Kennedy holds a
Bachelor of Science degree in Botany and Natural Science from University of Wisconsin.
He has received additional educational credits at the United States Dept. of Agriculture
Graduate School in New York, NY with advanced studies in the Biological Sciences.
He was also awarded a Space Act Agreement with NASA and is considered a National
Lab Pathfinder for his work on plant and human stem cells.
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