Robert Anderson
Director of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, Illinois Institute of Technology came to IIT after 38 years of experience at UOP LLC, a technology and licensing company for oil refineries and petrochemical companies. At UOP, he worked in a number of positions related to business and engineering, a combination fostered by his degree earned at IIT and his master's degree in management earned from Northwestern University in 1984. His responsibilities at UOP included leadership positions in R&D, manufacturing, licensing, and general management. He most recently served as Vice President of Marketing, a position that he held from 1996 through 2000. Mr. Anderson has had a long relationship with Illinois Institute of Technology. Since graduating from IIT in 1962 with a B.S. in chemical engineering, he has been a generous donor of both time and of funds to IIT. For the last eight years, he has been active on the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Advisory Board and currently serves as its Chair. He is a member of IIT's President's Council and has been awarded both the IIT Distinguished Alumnus Award (1997) and the Alumni Award of Merit (1999). Mr. Anderson has been on the NuVant board of directors since 2002.

Thomas E. Mallouk
DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry at Penn State University, is an expert in fuel cell catalysis, sensors, and combinatorial chemistry. Dr. Mallouk earned his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1983. He is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Exxon Solid State Chemistry Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, the Camille and Henry DreyfusTeacher-Scholar Award, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a former member of the Department of Energy Chemical Sciences Council, has held several elected offices in the American Chemical Society, and is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Mallouk has been Chief Scientist since 1999 and on the board of directors since 2002.

Eugene S. Smotkin
Technical Advisory Board Leader and Chairman of the Board of Directors, is a Chemistry Professor at Northeastern University in Boston and a Research Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He has 14 years experience in fuel cell R&D; awarded over $14 million in government and industry grants, has over 50 peer-reviewed articles and 7 patents. He frequently chairs professional symposia on fuel cells and catalysis including the ACS National Meeting, Electrocatalysis and Fuel Cells, Orlando FL April 7 – 11, 2002, the ARO Workshop on Designed Catalysts for Fuel Processors and Fuel Cells, Chicago, IL April 18 – 21, 1999, and the 4th US – Japan Workshop on Combinatorial Discovery of Materials in San Juan, Puerto Rico Dec. 6 – 9, 2006.  He was the chair and organizer of the Physical and Computational Characterization of Nanostructured Electrocatalysts Symposium at the American Chemical Society 232nd National Meeting & Exposition, September 10 - 14, 2006 in San Francisco. He was an invited speaker at three prestigious Gordon Conferences, all related to heterogeneous catalysis, and the Olaf Hougen Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin in 2003.

Mark V. Hurwitz, Ph.D., J.D.
Obtained his Ph.D. in Astronomy from U.C. Berkeley in 1990. He was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1997 and is a member of the American Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union. He is Associate Research Astronomer and Senior Space Fellow at UC Berkeley. Dr. Hurwitz obtained is J.D. from U.C Berkeley in 2000. He has a Certificate in Law and Technology and is a member of the California Law Review and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He is a member of the American Bar Association. From 2000 – 2004 Marks was a Litigation Associate with Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP. Mark was elected to the board as the preferred stock holder’s representative.