Management Team
Executive Officers
Stephen R. Johnson
President, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Johnson was elected as Chief Executive Officer of UltraStrip Systems, Inc., the parent Company of Brisben Water in October, 2003. Mr. Johnson joined the Company as Senior Vice President of Marketing in January of 2003, and previously served on the Company?s Advisory Board since 2001. Prior to that, he served as vice-president for the Ocean Development Group, a cruise ship development company. From 1997 to 2002, he served as President of Marine Management Consultants L.C. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Johnson served as President and from 1991 to 1994 as Vice President of Atlantic Marine Inc., a major ship yard in Mobile, AL. Over a 20-year career with Bethlehem Steel Corporation, he has held positions that include President of the Ocean Shipping subsidiaries and Senior Manager of the Sparrows Point Shipyard in Baltimore, MD. Mr. Johnson received his bachelor?s degree in Marine Transportation from the State University of New York Maritime College in 1968. He has attended programs at the SeaTrade Academy in London, AMA, and Harvard University Graduate School of Business.
Dennis McGuire
Executive Vice President of Business Development and Technology
Dennis McGuire is Chief Technology Officer of Brisben Water Technologies, and founder of its parent company, UltraStrip Systems, Inc. In this role, Mr. McGuire leads development of innovative and scalable solutions to help solve the global water crisis. Mr. McGuire?s U.S. and International Patents have been assigned to UltraStrip Systems and have become the foundation of a broad intellectual property base encompassing robotic coating removal for ships, automobiles, and aircraft; and water filtration technology that purifies water while preventing hazardous industrial by-products from being released into the environment. Mr. McGuire developed the technology for the first full-scale robotic coating removal services in ship repair history on the FPSO Jamestown while that ship was dry-docked in Lisnave, Portugal. During this process, approx. 200,000 sq. ft. of coatings were removed using a robotic vehicle and only high pressure water. The highly toxic wastewater was treated on site, and remediated to drinking water standards, with the company?s proprietary mobile water filtration technology. This technology has recently been verified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to treat wastewater from a terrorist attack on a municipal water supply. Mr. McGuire received a top ten finalist from Discover magazine and the Innovation of the Year award from Ship Repair magazine for his inventions. Mr. McGuire has been instrumental in forming technology and environmental partnerships with various prestigious organizations and Fortune 500 companies such as the Robotics Engineering Consortium at Carnegie Mellon, NASA, Carnival Cruise Lines, Ocean Futures, The Shaw Group, and Water Culture Network.
Michael R. (Mickey) Donn, Sr.
Senior Vice President
Mr. Donn was elected to serve on UltraStrip Systems? Board of Directors in March 2005. Mr. Donn has served as a consultant, Director of Communications, Managing Director, and in his current role as Senior Vice President of Operations and Treasurer for UltraStrip Systems since 2000. Mr. Donn was Project Manager for the Company?s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Verification testing. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Donn served as the President of the Miami-Dade County Fire Fighters Association, a 1700-member employee association for which he previously served as Vice President and Treasurer since 1982. His responsibilities included Lead Negotiator, lobbying at the local, state, and national levels; Chairman of the Insurance Trust; and management of business operations for the Association. From 1978 to 1980, he conducted the day-to-day operations of Dade Oil Company as General Manager. Mr. Donn holds Associate Degrees in the Arts and Sciences (Fire Administration) from Miami-Dade Community College. Mr. Donn also completed numerous advanced training programs at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies at the National Labor College in Washington, D.C.
Val Landi
National Marketing Consultant
Val has more than 25 years experience as a senior sales and marketing executive for both Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial startups. His experience ranges from EVP of International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest information-technology media and research company to Chief Marketing Officer of Google-competitor LookSmart through IPO (LOOK:NASDAQ). Val was also CEO of Redband Broadcasting, a Sony company. He holds a masters degree from Harvard University and is CEO of Lucid Strategies Inc., a pre-IPO corporate-identity and marketing company.
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