Personnel

GARY D. MCKAY, BSME, P.E, MBA (Finance)

Mr. McKay has two decades in the Power Industry supporting numerous clients in the areas of plant performance, thermal sciences, engineering economics and finance. His experience includes performance analysis, economic evaluation, equipment selection, and performance testing - from initial feasibility studies to detailed engineering and operations support. Mr. McKay has developed extensive analytical and computer skills in support of this expertise.

Mr. McKay has extensive experience in geothermal power, including performance optimizations for the design of SMUDGEO#1, Oxy Geothermal No.1 and CCPA #1, together with performance assessment and enhancement work for a number of other units world-wide, and other domestic and international geothermal fields.

Prior to his work as a consultant, Mr. McKay was employed by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation as a key member of the Heat Balance and Special Studies Group and earned an MBA in Finance. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado.

ROBERT E. TUCKER, BSME, MSME

Robert Tucker has nearly 30 years of geothermal industry experience with increasing responsibilities from Project Manager for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation to executive positions within WESTEC Services, Geothermal Resources International, Caithness Energy, and more recently Co-Founder and Senior Executive Vice President of GeoGlobal Energy.

To compliment his management expertise, Mr. Tucker has served as the Geothermal Resources council General Chairman in 1988 and the Key Note Speaker at the 1999 Annual Meeting. As a gifted educator, Mr. Tucker has also been an adjunct professor for the graduate-level capstone course in the Masters of Science in Engineering and Technology Management Program at the Colorado School of Mines.

Mr. Tucker has been involved in more than half of the world?s geothermal MWs, including reservoir assessment, engineering, design, construction, startup, operator training, operations and maintenance and project rehabilitation and expansion.

KENNETH A. PHAIR, PE, MSME

Mr. Phair has worked in the geothermal power industry for more than 31 years. Mr. Phair has contributed to the design or upgrade studies for power plants that represent nearly 40% of the world's installed geothermal generation capacity.

As Project Manager, Project Engineer, or Lead Mechanical Engineer on projects for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation and Power Engineers, Mr. Phair has provided technical direction of engineering and design activities on a wide variety of geothermal projects. He has also participated in construction, startup, and commissioning, and performance testing of geothermal power plants.

Mr. Phair engineered the mechanical systems for SMUDGEO #1 and Darajat Stage II, two of the world's most efficient geothermal power plants.

Mr. Phair authored the Geothermal Power section for the tenth and eleventh editions of Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Michigan and California.

ULF A. KUTSCHERA, BSME, MSME

Mr. Kutschera has worked in the power industry for more than 12 years as a design engineer of geothermal, coal, and combined cycle gas power plants. Mr. Kutschera's major area of expertise is thermal cycle design of steam power plants. During his career Mr.Kutschera served as a lead and design engineer and was responsible for process and systems design which included specification of major power plant equipment. Additionally, he conducted and supported performance testing of several power plants.

Prior to his association with Global Power Solutions, Mr. Kutschera was employed by Shaw - Stone & Webster, where he contributed to engineering and design of geothermal power plants such as Kamojang IV and Salton Sea Unit 5. He supported feasibility studies and EPC proposal efforts for Geothernal Projects in the US, Turkey, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

Mr. Kutschera, a mechanical engineer, received a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a Master of Science from the University of Colorado Boulder. Mr. Kutschera is a native of Germany and fluent in both spoken and written German and English. Prior to his experience in the power industry Mr. Kutschera worked as a mechanical design engineer in the minerals processing industry.