HOUSTON — The Alternative Energy Technology Center Inc. (AETE) has announced new appointments to its board of directors and management team. The initial directors are:
CEO and Chairman Brown Marks. Marks is an executive with more than 30 years of management experience. His prior experience includes 10 years with Armco/National Oilwell (now National Oilwell), where he was manager of Business Strategy.
He directed worldwide strategic planning, directed development of five-year business plans and conducted business development activities including acquisitions and technology transfers. From 1992 to 2003, he served as president and general manager for several Waste Management Inc. operations, including the State of Louisiana, with responsibility for all landfills, solid waste collection, transfer and recycling operations. Before that, he worked for Inland Container Corp.
He is a graduate of the University of Indiana and has completed graduate work at Xavier University and Columbia University. He is the former president of The North American Society of Corporate Planners in Houston.
CFO and Director Steve Turknett. Turknett comes to AETE as the CFO and a partner of RSI Partners LLC in Arlington, Texas, where he has served since 1999. Before joining RSI Partners, Turknett was a partner in Turknett & Gosh, a Texas accounting firm.
His prior work includes Norton Company in Troy, N.Y., from 1992 to 1998 and Memorex Consumer Products, a division of Tandy Corp. He began his career in 1980 at Price Waterhouse, where he worked in the SEC practice.
EVP, Corporate Counsel and Director John Michael Johnston. Johnston is a successful lawyer who will assist the company with its growth, legal compliance, intellectual property and business development. In addition to practicing law, Johnston served as North American Regional Manager for O’Connor Actuarial Ltd. from 1996 to 2001. He obtained his law degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1971 and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
David Mordekhay, VP Business Development. Mordekhay has founded and managed several successful international trading companies, including manufacturing, marketing and import/export. He has founded companies such as Millennium 2000, DaveMore Ltd and Continental Connections USA LLC. He has managed multiple government construction projects in Israel. Mordekhay will assist with negotiations, international development and client services.
AETE, based in The Woodlands, Texas, is a technology company focused on biofuels and alternative energy technologies. It is developing the first true biorefinery in the U.S. It will focus on technologies using renewable energy inputs from non-food energy sources and on technologies that can be scaled up to efficiently address the post-petroleum energy needs of the United States.