Michael Medock
Michael Medock, Founder/Managing Partner, with more than 35 years of experience, has directed nearly 70 successful engineering and construction projects for utilities and architectural, engineering and construction firms.

As principal in charge, he has developed everything from proposals, business development and project and construction management, and has supervised and directed technical assignments in engineering, construction, scheduling, cost control, estimating, plant design, procurement and fabrication. Medock also has provided operational training and has served as liaison between vendors, the client and project architects and engineers.

His work has placed significant emphasis on utility and industrial practices, preferences and procedures, which has proven invaluable in the development of project priorities.

Medock has worked on electric power projects ranging in size from 3 megawatts to 1,100 megawatts utilizing everything from fossil fuel (coal, gas, oil) to alternative fuels (solar, waste-to-energy, geothermal), nuclear, and various advanced power technologies.

He has been responsible for more than $5 billion in projects from engineering and construction to start-up and operational training, including the world’s largest Landfill Gas to Energy project for Los Angeles County; redesign and clean retrofit of the Huntington Beach natural gas fueled utility station acknowledged as the cleanest thermal power plant in the world; and most recently an $800 million clean retrofit of the Jeffrey Energy Center project in
St Mary’s Kansas with lead project responsibility for this 2.4GW coal fired power plant now considered the clean emissions standard for such power facilities.

Prior to joining ESA Energy, he directed power plant development for the world-class utility Arizona Public Service Company and developed a nuclear reactor power plant facility at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Idaho National Laboratory while with the Ralph M. Parsons Company.

John Janes
John Janes, Chairman of ESA Energy, has earned an excellent reputation, through his many years of experience in the capital markets, for his ability to successfully provide financing arrangements in denominations of $50 million to more than $500 million.

Janes, an experienced and versatile financier and developer, began his career more than three decades ago with the development of single-family detached housing, as well as commercial and industrial development projects. As president of the Janes Company in the 1970s, he was responsible for the development and operation of both shopping centers and large apartment complexes.

From 1985 through 1991, he served as President of Pentridge Real Estate Company, as well as Director of Forward Planning for both the Janes Group and M.D. Janes Companies. During this period, he supervised the financing and development of between 200 and 300 single family residences annually, and the design, building and operating of storage facilities totaling more than 400,000 square feet.

In 1997, Janes was selected to represent Ssangyong Business Group/Cement Industrial Co., Ltd., based in Seoul, South Korea, one of the world’s largest multi-national conglomerates, in the $150 million financing and sale – which he completed – of the company’s Riverside Cement Company to Texas Industries.

Currently, in addition to his business activities at ESA Energy, Janes, acting as a director of J.C. Partners International, LLC, is the original and principal founder in a partnership with Massimo Ferragamo of the Salvatori Ferragamo Group in the Brunello Project, a 4,500-acre development in Tuscany, Italy. The project – known as “Castiglione Del Bosco Castle” – consists of a world class winery, exclusive villas and hotel, and a world class golf course.

Janes is a principal in the development of Lido Marina Village, a $300 million waterfront project located on Newport Bay in Newport Beach, California. The project consists of an 80-suite five-star boutique hotel, 37 waterfront villas, a 60-slip marina and upscale restaurants and spa.

Fletcher A. Robbe
Fletcher A. Robbe, CEO of ESA Energy, served for 33 years as the managing partner of F. Robbe International Attorneys at Law, of Newport Beach, California, and brings significant business and financing experience to ESA Energy.

Robbe’s personal law practice was exclusively related to the areas of international acquisitions and mergers, securities law, reverse takeovers, initial public offerings, and the various financing instruments required to finance transactions in all areas of his practice.

He personally represented key investment banking firms doing business throughout the United States and Asia, and his firm founded and maintained offices in both Hong Kong and Beijing where it conducted a substantial practice in reverse takeovers of U.S. public entities by established Chinese operating companies. Typical transactions involved in simultaneous funding of $25 million or more to each entity.

During the past five years, Robbe has conducted business throughout much of China. Before joining ESA Energy, he acquired a substantial ownership interest in and served as CEO and board member of Dolphin Ocean Services and FSI Air Freight, Inc., both of which maintained 26 combined agency offices worldwide. He sold his interest in the two companies two years later at a significant profit.

Tom Forrester
Tom Forrester, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of ESA Energy, a 28-year veteran of business development, operations and executive management, is responsible for ESA Energy’s overall business operations and strategic direction of the company’s technology and project development.

Forrester has lead organizations from early-stage ventures to large, multi-national corporations, with a focus on clean power, alternative energy and engineered solutions. Forrester has advised firms on developing opportunities in renewable energy, as well as green technologies such as concentrated solar thermal, waste, biomass, biofuels, wind and battery technology, and emissions and water treatment technologies.

Before joining ESA Energy, Forrester served as Chief Operating Officer of a growth-stage technology firm he founded and later led to a successful strategic sale, and as a Senior Executive and director for ABB, a $23 billion power generation systems and technology company with Fortune 1000 and government clients worldwide. He also served as a Director with Elsag Bailey, a $300 million provider of power generation systems and emissions technology.

He also served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations of a global commerce company responsible for annual business of $600 million, and where he completed a $180 million public offering as well as led the integration of several acquisitions.

Forrester holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration with honors from the University of Southern California.

Gary L. Faul
G.L. Faul, VP Senior Engineering, has been responsible for the development of more than 20 power plant projects ranging in size from 250 to 800 megawatts, with an emphasis on the design of control system logic and instrument/control equipment specifications.

He has served as lead engineer for a coal liquefaction project and has designed more than 20 coal-fired boiler burner control systems, including system logic and schematics.

In addition, he has headed up purchasing of all system components ranging from field-mounted equipment (igniters, flame detectors, air register operators and more) to pressure/temperature switches and control consoles.

And he has demonstrated a proven ability to reduce the costs of each system through standardization of design, economics of scale in manufacturing, and optimum quantity purchases.

Projects he has developed include everything from the two 800 megawatt coal fired systems at the Four Corners Power Plant, New Mexico, one of the largest coal-fired generating stations in the United States, to the Puente Hills Energy Recovery from Gas (PERG) Project at the Puente Hills Landfill in Whittier, California, operated by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County.

In addition, he was responsible for development of instruments and controls for the SERFF Project (Southeast Resource Recovery Facility), a 1,000 ton-per-day solid waste resource recovery facility in Long Beach, California, where refuse collected by the city is utilized to generate electric power.

A Registered Professional Engineer, Faul received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cleveland State University.

Charles F. Sanders, Ph.D.
Charles F. Sanders, Ph.D., Senior Engineer, has more than 35 years of professional experience in the management of engineering, manufacturing, consulting, research and product development.

He began his career at what was then Exxon Research and Engineering Company as an engineer developing combustion and petroleum processes. After seven years with Exxon, he accepted an engineering faculty appointment at California State University, Northridge, serving as assistant professor, associate professor and professor of engineering. He chaired the Department of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering for 10 years and, for nine years, held the positions of Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Center for Research and Services – all while maintaining an engineering consultant practice.

Sanders’ focus has included analyses of power and plant design and evaluations of new technologies. He also has served as program director of a project to develop a transportable electric generating plant utilizing a fluid-bed furnace coupled with a combustion turbine to burn a variety of fuels. He has organized a variety of technical workshops and conferences and served as editor of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Combustion Fuel Oil Users’ Newsletter.

A Registered Professional Engineer, he has authored numerous publications. He received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of California and a Doctorate, also in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Southern California.