Board of Directors
Patrick O’Neill Haskell
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Patrick Haskell was appointed to the Board of Advisors in December 2007. He then joined the Company full time as Chairman and Co-CEO in June 2008 and became CEO in December 2008. Mr. Haskell is a former Managing Director with HSBC, where he served as the Head of North American Rates, Sales and Trading from March 2005 until December 2006. He was also a member of HSBC’s Markets Management Committee for the Americas. Mr. Haskell’s career includes serving as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). While at CSFB he also served as Co-Head of Dollar Interest Rate Trading, a member of the Fixed Income Division’s Operating Committee and chaired the firm’s Managing Director Evaluation Committee. Mr. Haskell is Series 3, 7, 24, and 63 licensed. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Union College. Mr. Haskell has been a philanthropic supporter and Board Member of Boy’s Hope/Girls’ Hope since 1998 and was the organization’s Vision of Hope Award Winner in 2006. Mr. Haskell is also an active participant in the “Save-a-Limb Foundation”.
Vice Admiral George R. Sterner, United States Navy (Retired)
Lead Director
George Sterner was elected to the Company’s Board of Directors in March of 2002, served as Chairman of the Company from March 2005 until March 2008 and currently serves as Lead Director. Admiral Sterner joined Raytheon in 1999 as the company’s Naval Mission Area Executive. He retired in 2005 after three years as Vice President for Strategic Pursuits at Raytheon. From 1998 to 1999, he served as Vice President–System Integration for Walt Disney Imagineering and directed the technical aspects and delivery preparations for the MS Disney Wonder cruise ship. Admiral Sterner spent 36 distinguished years with the U.S. Navy including four years as Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (1994 - 1998), until his retirement in 1998. Admiral Sterner is currently co-owner and managing director of Sea Systems Solutions, Inc., a consulting firm in Vienna, Virginia.
Joe M. Allbaugh
Director
Joe Allbaugh was elected to the Board of Directors in October 2005. Mr. Allbaugh served as the FEMA Director under President George W. Bush until March 2003. Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., he was Chief of Staff to then-Governor Bush of Texas and was the National Campaign Manager for the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign. Mr. Allbaugh is currently the President and CEO of the Allbaugh Company, LLC, which formulates corporate strategies designed to create new opportunities and expand competitive advantage for private sector clients. He also serves as a Director on the boards of Emergent Biosolutions Inc. and the National Rifle Association.
Michael R. "Mickey" Donn, Sr.
Chief Operating Officer and Director
Mickey Donn was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of Brisben Water Technologies in March 2005 and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer for the Company. Mr. Donn previously served as a consultant, Director of Communications, Managing Director, Senior Vice President of Operations, Executive Vice President, and Treasurer for the Company, as well as President and Chief Operating Officer of Brisben Water Systems, since 2000. Mr. Donn was Project Manager for Brisben Water’s EPA verification testing of its water filtration system. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Donn served as President of the 1700-member Miami-Dade County Fire Fighters Association, for which he previously served as Vice President and Treasurer since 1982. Mr. Donn coordinated relief efforts for the Miami-Dade fire fighters following Hurricane Andrew. Additionally, he set up and coordinated the Brisben Water relief effort in Waveland, MS following Hurricane Katrina. From 1978 to 1980, Mr. Donn conducted day-to-day operations of Dade Oil Company as General Manager.
Charles Vinick
Director
Charles Vinick joined Brisben Water’s Board of Directors in August 2006. He currently serves as a renewable energy consultant focused on ocean current and wind power development, specializing in government relations, permitting, environmental impacts and business development. He has more than 25 years of experience directing and managing non-profit organizations and programs. His recent positions include: President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, from June 2005 through August 2007; CEO of the Foundation for Santa Barbara City College from June 2004 through May 2005; and Vice President of Fritz Institute from October 2003 to April 2004. He was Executive Vice President of the Ocean Futures Society from its founding in 1998 through September 2003. Including the Ocean Futures Society, Mr. Vinick has previously held executive positions for over 20 years with organizations headed by Jacques Cousteau or Jean-Michel Cousteau.
D. Stephen Keating
Director
D. Stephen Keating was appointed a director in August 2008. He served as the Vice President of the Worldwide Taxes division for CA, Inc. from 1998 through June 2008. Mr. Keating was the senior officer responsible for the worldwide tax planning and strategy, tax accounting and day-to-day supervision for the U.S. and international tax departments. At CA, Inc., Mr. Keating was involved with approximately 100 mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. His responsibilities included negotiating with the IRS and various countries tax authorities on audit issues and APA reports.
Thomas D. Wolfe
Director
Thomas D. Wolfe was appointed a director in August 2008. He was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D of Open Energy Corporation from December 2006 through July 14, 2008. In 1998, Mr. Wolfe founded WaterEye Corporation where he served as its President and Chief Executive Officer and until WaterEye was acquired by Open Energy in December 2006. Mr. Wolfe has over 25 years’ experience in the chemical process industries, with particular experience in power, water and wastewater treatment technologies. Mr. Wolfe is one of the pioneers in the reverse osmosis field and has made many contributions to the development and advancement of reverse osmosis membrane technology and wastewater evaporation technology dating back to the early 1970’s. He has participated at all levels in some of the largest membrane and evaporator installations in the world and has hands on experience with a wide variety of evaporator configurations including vapor recompression, steam driven single and multiple effect systems, as well as direct contact and submerged combustion processes. Mr. Wolfe developed much of the software currently in use today for reverse osmosis membrane performance prediction and computational chemistry for recovery determination and scale control. Mr. Wolfe has authored more than 20 technical articles and papers in his various fields of involvement and is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Water Works Association.
Gene H. Davis
Director
Gene H. Davis was appointed a director in August 2008. He was the Geological and Geophysical Manager for the Western Business Unit of Forest Oil Corp. from December 2004 to March 2008 where he evaluated and implemented drilling programs. From July 2004 until December 2004, Mr. Davis was a Project Geologist for EOG Resources Inc. From September 2000 to July 2004, he was an Exploration Geologist for Chi Energy, Inc. Mr. Davis has over 28 years of executive geoscience and asset management, successful exploratory and development geology and geophysics experience.
*Admiral William Owens, United States Navy (Retired)
Chairman Emeritus
William Owens previously served as Chairman of Brisben Water and was elected Chairman Emeritus upon completion of his service to the Company. Admiral Owens is Chairman and CEO of AEA Holdings, Inc. Previously, he served as Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nortel Networks. Prior to becoming CEO at Nortel, Admiral Owens was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Teledesic LLC and President, Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the U.S. ’s largest employee-owned high-technology company. Prior to joining SAIC, he was Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. From 1991 to 1993, he was the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments. Admiral Owens served as commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in 1990 and 1991. Between 1988 and 1991, he served as senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense Carlucci and Cheney. Admiral Owens sits on the public boards of Nortel Networks and Daimler Chrysler AG, and on several philanthropic boards including the Carnegie Foundation, Brookings Institution and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center .
*Admiral William Owens is no longer a Board member.
*Jean-Michel Cousteau
Director Emeritus
An explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer for more than 40 years, Jean-Michel Cousteau is founder and president of the Ocean Futures Society, a non-profit marine conservation organization. the eldest son of undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel travels the globe as the "voice of the ocean," meeting with world leaders and policymakers, educating young people, documenting stories of change and hope, and lending his reputation and support to help energize alliances for positive change. At the 2001 Winter and 2004 Summer Olympic Games, he was chosen to represent the environment, literally carrying the torch for the Earth into the Opening Ceremonies. As a former member of the Brisben Water Technologies Board of Directors, Mr. Cousteau has played a leading role in helping the Company form eco-alliances with shipyards and ship operators to protect the ocean environment from industrial pollution. Going forward, Mr. Cousteau will work with Company executives and the world's oil exploration companies to help them with produced water issues for the protection of the world's oceans. Mr. Cousteau served on the Brisben Water Board of Directors from August 15, 1999 until April 2005.
*Jean-Michel Cousteau is no longer a Board member. He continues to serve on the Advisory Board.