NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GS CleanTech Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSCT) today announced the
appointments of David Winsness to President and Chief Executive Officer,
Greg Barlage to Chief Operational Officer, and John “Whit”
Davis to Vice President of Operations.
“These appointments are both very important
and timely to GS CleanTech,” said Kevin
Kreisler, GS CleanTech’s chairman and now
former chief executive officer. “Our corn oil
to biodiesel program has a built up a great deal of momentum and the
depth and breadth of our team will be critical to our continued success
as we transition more fully from technology commercialization to systems
deployment and ongoing operations. David, Greg and Whit each have
intimate knowledge of our technologies as well as standard vegetable oil
refining, and ethanol and biodiesel production processes. I have every
confidence in each of them and the rest of the GS CleanTech team, and I
look forward to the continued success of our corn oil to biodiesel
program.”
David Winsness, GS CleanTech’s president and
chief executive officer, added that: “I am
very excited by where we are today. We have a growing team of dynamic
and hard working engineers and project managers and I strongly believe
that our technologies can help to facilitate tremendous gains for
commerce and the environment. Our first target is the Corn Ethanol
Production Industry, and we intend to remain relentlessly focused on
enhancing the net energy value of traditional corn derived ethanol
production by layering in additional technologies that maximize the
revenues and earnings yield of every bushel of corn. GS CleanTech has
made great strides in the past year and I look forward with anticipation
to our future.”
David Winsness, GS CleanTech’s new Chief
Executive Officer, was previously GS CleanTech’s
President and Chief Operational Officer in which position he led the
commercialization effort for GS CleanTech technologies. Mr. Winsness has
spearheaded the addition of over a dozen patented and patent pending
technologies to GS CleanTech’s portfolio, six
of which were developed and authored directly by Mr. Winsness, including
GS CleanTech’s Corn Oil Extraction
Technology. Mr. Winsness is a graduate of Clemson University (B.S.,
Mechanical Engineering) and he has spent his professional career as a
process engineer in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical and power
generation markets. Prior to accepting a position with GS CleanTech, Mr.
Winsness served as chief technology officer and eventually chief
executive officer of Vortex Dehydration Technology where he directed the
research, development and commercialization of a technology that is now
GS CleanTech’s Tornado Generator™.
Greg Barlage, GS CleanTech’s new Chief
Operational Officer, has over 15 years of deep process engineering
experience, including manufacturing optimization, maintenance and
operations management with a leading food products company. Prior to
joining GS CleanTech in early 2006, Mr. Barlage worked for Alfa Laval, a
global leader in heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling
solutions. There he was responsible for all separation, heat transfer,
and specialty process capital equipment sales to the meat processing and
vegetable oil processors in the U.S. In this position he effectively
reformed the sales team to grow sales and innovate with new products and
systems for these industries. Notably, Mr. Barlage lead the Alfa Laval
team as it worked with GS CleanTech’s
management in the commercialization of its proprietary corn oil
extraction technology and has worked extensively with GS CleanTech’s
team as they designed and deployed GS CleanTech’s
existing Corn Oil Extraction System installations at Little Sioux Corn
Processors and Glacial Lakes Energy. Mr. Barlage has also worked on the
engineering and installation of a commercial scale version of GS
CleanTech’s Tornado Generator™
technology located in Joplin, Missouri, where it effectively processes
and dehydrates poultry products into highly nutritional and shelf stable
products. This system operates 24 hours per day, 5 days per week and
also uses Alfa Laval heat transfer and centrifuge components in
conjunction with the Tornado Generator™ to
produce high quality animal fats, chicken broth and dehydrated poultry
proteins. Mr. Barlage has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, and an M.B.A. from the University of
St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
John “Whit” Davis,
GS CleanTech’s new Vice President of
Operations, has a broad base of diversified management, engineering,
operational and business development experience. Mr. Davis led the
deployment of GS CleanTech’s existing Corn
Oil Extraction System installations at Little Sioux Corn Processors and
Glacial Lakes Energy. Most recently in his career, Mr. Davis was the
technical director for special projects at Vortex Dehydration
Technology, where he led product design, development and implementation
for many applications of the technologies underlying GS CleanTech’s
Tornado Generator™. Mr. Davis holds the rank
of Lt. Commander as a reservist with the U.S. Coast Guard. Mr. Davis has
a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and an
M.B.A from Boston University.
About GS CleanTech Corporation
GS CleanTech Corporation provides applied engineering and technology
transfer services based on clean technologies and process innovations
that make it cost-effective and easy to recycle and reuse resources.
Additional information on GS CleanTech and its technologies is available
online at www.gs-cleantech.com.
GS CleanTech is majority owned by GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin
Board: GSHF), a company devoted to facilitating the efficient use of
natural resources. Additional information on GreenShift is available
online at www.greenshift.com.
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