Michael Matvieshen, 45, Chairman of the Board.Mr. Matvieshen became a director of the Company on January 13, 2004 upon the Company's acquisition of EPOD International Inc. and then Chairman of the Board on January 21, 2004.Mr. Matvieshen is the founder of EPOD and was its President since inception.Prior to founding EPOD, he was President of Wolverine Resources Inc., a large oil upgrading refinery owned by a large venture capital firm.Mr. Matvieshen has also served as Vice President of Gen5 Tech Corporation, which managed the construction, capital budgeting and startup of an oil upgrading plant in Alberta.Mr. Matvieshen has extensive experience in the industrial wastewater and industrial waste-oil treatment industries and has been in the technology business for the past fifteen years primarily as an entrepreneur and inventor.