The Executive

Dr. Bernhard Steiner became Chief Executive Officer of CDT on September 14, 2004. Previously, Dr. Steiner held Executive director positions from 2003 at both Wayfinder Systems AB of Sweden, a navigation and location software development company, and OWR AG, a leading NBC protection solutions company. He continues as a non-executive director at Wayfinder. From 1999 until 2003, Dr. Steiner was General Manager of the Software Solutions Group of Motorola, Inc., an electronics company. From 1994 until 1999 he was Chairman and Chief Executive of the NXT PLC Group of companies, Wharfedale and Mission, and from 1996 Group Managing Director of NXT PLC. Dr. Steiner, a graduate of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, during his business career also held executive sales and marketing positions at Canon, Sony and Amstrad PLC.

Tim Rogers, Executive Vice President - International, joined Clean Diesel in December 2003. Prior to joining, Tim was Director of Marketing and Sales for ADAS Consulting Ltd, a former UK goverment agency, focussing on the living and growing environment and providing lead and policy consultancy to the UK government and industry. Previously, Tim worked 9 years for Associated Octel Ltd as Global Business Manager for their Specialty Fuel additives business. He later formed Octel's Emission Technology business unit developing new fuel-borne catalysts and setting up Adastra Ltd, a retrofit emission control company. Tim has been in the petrochemicals business for nearly 20 years. In that time he has worked for Exxon Chemicals and Ethyl Petroleum where he held roles in R&D, international sales and business management. Tim has a grounding in mechanical engineering, studying at the Brooks University in Oxford.

Dr. Walter G. Copan, Executive Vice President North American Operations and CTO, was previously Principal Licensing Executive, Technology Transfer, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) based in Golden, CO. At NREL Dr. Copan was responsible for commercialization of clean energy, energy efficiency and related technologies, through partnerships with industry, academia, and government. Prior to joining NREL, Dr. Copan was Managing Director, Technology Transfer and Licensing for The Lubrizol Corporation for whom he’d worked for 28 years.

Ann Ruple, CFO and Vice-President Administration, was most recently Director of Financial Planning and Analysis of NCT Group, Inc, a U.S. publicly-traded, high-tech company with a strong technology base, a position she held for more than eight years. Prior to NCT Group, Ann held various senior management positions in both private and publicly-traded US companies and brings extensive technology and small cap experience to Clean Diesel.