Blue Marble Energy

The Blue Marble Energy Team

Kelly Ogilvie

President and Chief Executive Officer

Kelly is the co-founder and CEO of Blue Marble Energy. Blue Marble Energy was founded as a synthesis of Kelly’s professional and personal passions in environmentalism, politics, and sustainable business. Kelly has extensive political strategy experience in local, regional and national campaigns. His resume includes work in the offices of Washington State Governor Gary Locke and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. Kelly’s business experience includes working with Paul Allen’s Vulcan, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and as Executive Director of the Alki Foundation. Kelly currently serves on the board of directors at the Woodland Park Zoo and Seafair, as well as in an advisory capacity to several Seattle area startups. His dedication to alternative energy and clean technology led him to found BME with James Stephens in May 2005. The company has been hailed as a pioneer of petroleum displacement through renewable biochemicals and bioenergy.

Kelly was a theater actor for four years in a show called Sex in Seattle.

James Stephens

Vice President and Chief Science Officer

James is co-founder, VP and Chief Science Officer of Blue Marble Energy. James brings a strong background in industrial microbiology to Blue Marble, with particular focus on alternative energy generation through fermentation as well as pathogen detection and control technologies. James has conducted extensive research and development in microbiology, including ways to make commercially viable applications for pathogenic organisms in both the industrial and medical diagnostic markets. James’s strong interest in alternative energy has led him to carry out independent research on the use of microorganisms to generate clean energy. James began his education in Chemical Engineering before moving on to graduate with honors in Microbiology and Medical Technology, with an emphasis on Industrial Microbiology from the University of Montana. Most recently, James worked as Director of Microbiology and New Product Development with an international medical diagnostic company.

James used to be a dedicated spelunker while living in South Dakota, but after getting lost for a period that could be measured on a calendar in the abandoned Holy Terror goldmine, let’s just say he doesn’t like underground spaces anymore.

Devin Elliot

Chief Operations Officer

Devin Elliot brings a passion for alternative energy, environmentally responsible and sustainable solutions to Blue Marble Energy. As Chief Operations Officer, Devin also brings business management skills and inexorable energy to the company. Prior to joining the Blue Marble Energy team, Devin was the founder of his own algae-to-energy company, as well as the owner/operator of a construction firm.

Devin once tried to answer a cell phone while hitting a jump in Park City, Utah. At approximately 25 feet in the air and traveling some 70 feet to make the landing, he figured he had enough time. He didn't.

Colby Underwood

Vice President of Business Development

Colby serves as Vice President of Business Development to Blue Marble Energy. Prior to joining the Blue Marble team, Colby founded and managed several companies including Colby Underwood Consulting LLC, a Seattle-based company that focused on developing funds for political candidates/groups, non-profit organizations, and start-up companies. Over the past decade, Colby has raised over $62M in funds for a diverse set of clients. Colby brings a vast network of contacts and relationships, both regional and national, to Blue Marble Energy. He also serves on the board of directors for several organizations in the Western Washington region including Senior Services of Snohomish County, The Washington Bus, and Operation Nightwatch.

Colby has a pilot’s license and was once investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration for an unauthorized flyover of an United States Air Force base. Fortunately, no missiles were launched.

Heather Johnson

Director of Finance

Heather’s professional life has been committed to developing organizations and businesses that serve our most poignant societal needs. She brings to Blue Marble Energy capacities ranging from building accounting structures and financial forecasts, to coaching teams through times of significant growth. Her resume includes work as a consultant with over twenty businesses and organizations, a founding leader of Sustainable Connections in Bellingham, Director of Finance and Accounting with BabyLegs, LLC, and role as Interim Director for two non-profit organizations. Heather is a magna cum laude graduate of Western Washington University with a degree in Business Administration/Finance, and is certified in Integral Organizational Assessment from Pacific Integral/Leadership Institute of Seattle.

Heather loves discussing the transitory nature of existence, taking perspectives on perspectives, exploring the human developmental process, and demonstrates an absurd enjoyment of knock-knock jokes and Adam Sandler movies.

Danielle Hendrix

Communication Manager

Danielle is a Seattle native and passionate advocate of a sustainable future, both regional and worldwide. As Communications Manager for Blue Marble Energy, Danielle brings a creative and global edge to BME’s communication and marketing strategies. She has a strong artistic background and speaks several languages including French and Italian. Recently, Danielle worked as a board member and Art Director for a startup nonprofit on Whidbey Island, whose focus is education and collaboration for a sustainable culture. Danielle has extensive experience as a liaison and primary contact, coordinating communication for Northwest Language Academy. Danielle graduated magna cum laude from Occidental College with a BA in Art History and Visual Arts, and a minor in English Literature.

Danielle is an avid long distance runner whose favorite run to date was crossing the Deception Pass Bridge at 4am in a leg for the Ragnar Relay Series. She has also been known to make good money off of Star Wars trivia bets.

Julia Ruedig

Executive Assistant

Julia Ruedig brings a diversity of talents and experiences to the Blue Marble team. As Executive Assistant at Blue Marble Energy, Julia draws on her strong organizational and multitasking skills to keep the engines well oiled (with waste-veggie oil, naturally).

Julia graduated cum laude from Scripps College in Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Mandarin Chinese. During her time at Scripps, her passion for sustainability led her to co-found a student run biodiesel cooperative that is still active today. She has merged her journalistic interest with her Mandarin Chinese skills to run production for a documentary film in Beijing.

Julia once interviewed David Hasselhoff about homelessness in Los Angeles, and has hosted a TV variety show in front of a live studio audience in Hangzhou, China.

Courtney Ryan-Petterson

Research Assistant

Courtney is Blue Marble Energy’s research and laboratory assistant, bringing a high degree of dedication and versatile talents to the team. Prior to joining Blue Marble, Courtney volunteered at the Treehouse Wearhouse in Seattle, a not-for-profit dedicated to providing service and materials to foster children. While living in New York, Courtney worked at Marie Claire Magazine as a contributing fashion credit editor. Courtney graduated from Smith College with a BA in History and is currently pursuing a major in Chemistry at the University of Washington.

When she’s not in the lab, Courtney enjoys practicing gymnastics and has been known to read HTML textbooks and scientific biographies for fun.

Expertise

Mark Briant

Communications Consultant

Mark is an award-winning veteran of 30 years in journalism, public relations and public affairs, and brings a veteran’s knowledge of how to effectively communicate with media, the public and potential investors.

After a 20-year career as a metropolitan daily newspaper reporter, Mark served as a vice president of a major public relations firm in Seattle before opening his own marketing/communications consulting practice. He has won regional, national and international awards for his work in both journalism and in public relations, working with such diverse clients as the Northwest Ford Dealers, the law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis LLC (now K&L Gates), the Washington State Department of Transportation, Washington State Ferries, Quality Food Centers and the Associated General Contractors of Washington.

Advisory Board

Sidney Rittenberg

Chinese Business Consultant

Sidney Rittenberg has known every Chinese leader: Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the notorious Gang of Four, Deng Xiaoping, and the present president and premier.

The Army trained Mr. Rittenberg in Chinese Studies during World War II, and sent him to China. He later joined the UN Relief Program, met and formed a friendship with Zhou Enlai, and in 1946 accepted the invitation to help train Chinese journalists working in English.

He became a leading translator for the works of Mao Zedong, and was the only American citizen accepted into the Chinese Communist Party, until the Cultural Revolution. In China, Mr. Rittenberg found Yulin, his dream girl and lifetime partner; she has been for 48 years the source of his happiness and the strength behind his achievements.

Sixteen of Rittenberg's 35 years in China were spent as a prisoner in solitary confinement on charges of being an American spy. He was freed in 1977 and declared a true friend of China. His family became a myth and a legend, giving them easy entrée to China's leaders - a great advantage for their consulting work.

As consultants, Mr. Rittenberg and Yulin have helped clients such as Intel, Nextel, Levi Strauss, Teledesic, and ICO, as well as CBS's Dan Rather and Mr. Rittenberg's close friends, Mike Wallace and the Reverend Billy Graham.

Mr. Rittenberg has appeared on virtually every major TV and radio comment program, and frequently gives seminars on the China business. He has been a professor of History at the University of North Carolina, where an endowed chair has been announced in his honor. He is currently a visiting professor of China Studies at Pacific Lutheran University.

Mr. Rittenberg's 35 years in China are chronicled in The Man Who Stayed Behind, a book he co-authored with senior Wall Street Journal writer Amanda Bennett.

David Lahaie

Founder, Evergreen Recycling Inc.

David Lahaie has 15 years experience in materials recycling and recovery. As founder and President of Evergreen Recycling Inc. David has built business relationships with companies like Boeing, Intel, Seagate, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony and continues to find recycling options diverting materials from landfill and reducing long term liability.

Evergreen Recycling works with Public and Private Sector entities nationwide and in the EU to deliver alternatives to landfill for various industries. Industries David has worked with include Refineries, Steel Making, Primary Aluminum production, Cement and Brick Manufacturing, Silicon Chip and Hard Drive Manufacturing, Automotive and Aircraft Production, Public and Private Utilities.

Dr. Nguyen Minh

Former Head — GE Global Research

Dr. Nguyen Minh is an internationally known expert on solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology and has been involved in the development of fuel cells and related technologies in the last twenty years. His research and development experience covers a number of areas ranging from fundamentals (electrochemistry/electrochemical engineering, reaction mechanisms), materials (high-temperature materials, molten salts, ceramics) to processes and manufacturing (hydrogen production, ceramic fabrication), system operation (system design, prototype demonstration).

Until May 2007, he was Chief Scientist, GE Global Research, Torrance, CA. As the Chief Scientist, Dr. Minh was responsible for the organization's overall technical objectives on fuel cells, oversaw the broad technical roadmap and R&D direction, and served as the Principal Investigator of GE fuel cell programs and the primary technical representative to customers and industry. From 2001-2004, he was Manager, Fuel Cells and led the fuel cell group at GE to develop SOFCs for commercialization. He was responsible for group performance and provided technical direction, coordinated group activities, and assisted in business strategic planning.

Before GE acquisition of Honeywell's Fuel Cell group in 2001, Dr. Minh was Senior Manager, Fuel Cells at Honeywell and AlliedSignal (before AlliedSignal merged with Honeywell) leading the SOFC and proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell R&D efforts aiming at commercial, military, and space applications. Before joining AlliedSignal in 1986, he was Associate Manager, Fuel Cell Program Office and Group Leader at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois (1980-1985) working on molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs), batteries, and advanced electrolytic processes. Dr. Minh received his Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering.

Dr. Minh has lectured extensively on fuel cell technologies and has been invited to give seminars and presentations at numerous international and national meetings/conferences/workshops. He also has served on review panels for Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation and several state agencies. His accomplishments on SOFCs include many firsts in this area. He was the first to propose the anode-support cell configuration, now the standard for planar SOFCs, first to demonstrate the use of a conventional ceramic processing method (tape calendaring or rolling) to fabricate thin electrolytes, first to build hundred-watt-class stacks with metallic interconnects, and published the first monograph on the technology. Dr. Minh is the author/coauthor of the book "Science and Technology of Ceramic Fuel Cells" as well as 4 book chapters, 20 patents, and over 100 published technical articles on fuel cells and related technologies. His feature article "Ceramic Fuel Cells" published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society (J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 76, 1993, 563-588) is among the most cited papers in the electrochemical technology literature. Dr. Minh has received several awards, most recently the 2007 Francis T. Bacon Medal, for his research on SOFCs.

Don Stark

Founder, Gogerty Stark Marriott

Don Stark is one of the founders of Gogerty Stark Marriott. He has led public affairs strategy for clients such as AT&T, Weyerhaeuser Real Estate and PACCAR.

For the past few years, Stark has supervised the firm's consulting activities for the Boeing Company on governmental, environmental and community relations issues. He is the lead consultant on behalf of Wal-Mart for public affairs and media strategy in Washington State and consults with a number of businesses and organizations that are impacted by major transportation projects in the Puget Sound area.

He offers considerable experience in local government finance and management, having served as director of the Office of Management and Budget for the City of Seattle, and as Deputy Mayor of the City of Renton.

Stark is the former chair and a member of the Executive Board of the Alki Foundation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce. He chaired an ad-hoc group of senior communications professionals that advocated for improvement of migrant farm worker housing conditions in Washington State; he is also a member of the Pacific Northwest Regional Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

Stark is a University of Washington graduate and also holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Oklahoma.

James R. Hodge

CEO Sanitas Partners LLC | CEO Tao LLC

James Hodge brings expert experience in waste management, the development and marketing of new businesses as well as infrastructure implementation.

James is currently the CEO of Sanitas Partners, a Seattle based company offering comprehensive set of solid waste solutions to international municipalities, and designed to transform environmental and public health challenges into public assets.

Previously, James conceptualized, permitted, and developed the world’s largest waste-by-rail system centered around Roosevelt Landfill. This system provided cost-effective and environmentally secure disposal options for rural urban communities from Alaska to California. He has also served on the boards of both the Environmental Transportation Assoc in Washington D.C. and Washington State’s Solid Waste Advisory committee