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, Partner 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.