Corvus Energy

Brent Perry, Chief Executive Officer

Brent Perry is a global operating and management executive who’s successful at building high-performance teams and leading sophisticated manufacturing and service organizations with P&L responsibility.

Mr. Perry is a strategic visionary who has a strong understanding of the energy sector and attacks problems with a clear sense of purpose and urgency. He is well skilled at establishing operational excellence within culturally diverse environments, translating conceptual models into specific growth strategies and planning and executing multi-faceted global business development campaigns designed to improve market share, gross revenues and net profit.

Previously, Mr. Perry worked as vice president and director of operations, among other noted titles, for a large number of multinational companies, including Luhrs Corporation (400M business, USA), Grand Banks Ltd., (100M, Asia) and Hanse Yachts LLC (130ME, Germany). He’s held positions ranging from vice president to director of operations.

Mr. Perry has a clear vision for the expansion of the lithium-ion battery industry and a proven history in lean manufacturing, sales, product distribution and customer service leadership.

Neil Simmonds, Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Simmonds has worked in the battery industry for more than 25 years and holds more than 70 battery-related patents.

He has worked as the lead researcher on numerous research projects and has developed products for many of the worlds’ leading original equipment manufacturers, including Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Phillips Communications, Sony Corp., NEC, Panasonic, Sanyo and Rayovac Corp. among others, as well as numerous government and military organizations. He also enjoys playing ice hockey, fishing and fine food and wine.

• The first commercially available battery conditioning system for nickel cadmium batteries (circa 1987).
• The first sub-4C charging algorithms for nickel cadmium batteries (circa 1991).
• The first sub-1C charging algorithms for nickel metal hydride batteries (circa 1993).
• One of the first single-unit multi-chemistry chargers for NiCd, NiMH and Li-on batteries (circa 1995).
• The first universal input starved-regulator technique for Li-ion/LiP batteries (circa 2000).
• The lowest cost full-function charger for Li-ion/Lip batteries (circa 2001).
• A highly integrated controller for the control of Li-ion batteries in electric and hybrid electric vehicles (circa 2005).

Cecil (Cec) Primeau, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Primeau brings to Corvus Energy a unique combination of management, financial and information technology skills. He is well suited to making a difference in today's rapidly evolving business world and looks forward to making a difference at Corvus.

Previously, Primeau held senior management positions as chief financial officer, chief operations officer and chief information officer in a broad range of industries, including A&W, FRBC, Argus Industries, PricewaterhouseCoopers and NewHeights Software.

Recently, Mr. Primeau helped turn a telecom software start up into a widely recognized and admired company worth more than $20 million and named by Canadian Business magazine as one of the top 50 companies to work for in Canada. For nearly two years, he has honed his operation and financial officer duties by working on business planning and strategy with a number of start-up businesses.

Mr. Primeau is a Certified Management Accountant and has a Masters of Business Administration in International Management from Asia Pacific International University.

Joe Vosburgh, Chief Strategic Officer

Mr. Vosburgh has more than 15 years of experience in the successful development, marketing and commercialization of breakthrough technologies. He has held senior product strategy and leadership positions with Creo, Chancery Software, Ballard Power Systems and Ikona Gear International.

Most recently, Mr. Vosburgh implemented Ballard's material handling market strategy and a 1MW clean energy distribution power project with FirstEnergy Inc. In 2005 and 2006, Mr. Vosburgh received the Ballard's Award of Excellence for Strategic Growth. In 2009, he received an award for his work with the FirstEnergy project. His work in Distributed Power set the groundwork for a market segment that represents the company's primary source of revenue and margin growth over the next five to ten years. At Ikona, Mr. Vosburgh had overall P&L responsibility and drove the company's market, product and corporate development functions.

As chief strategic officer for Corvus Energy, Mr. Vosburgh will focus on market and product development, as well as global business development strategies.

Mr. Vosburgh holds an MBA in marketing and accounting from Queen's University (1995) and an Engineering Degree from the University of Victoria (1993), both with honors distinction.

Executive Biography - Corvus Europe

Cor Meedendorp, Managing Director

Cor Meedendorp has a long time experience in boatbuilding. He started at the famous De Keijzer company in Holland. During these years he successfully managed installation teams for several worldwide known Dutch shipyards.

In 2005 he founded together with Diederick Stam the company Floattech. Today Floattech is very succesfull in the Netherlands.

The market was asking for new solutions for storing energy. From this demand, again together with Diederick, Cor decided to found a new company ES Technologies. This company developed solutions for diesel - electric powered vessels. Main part of the development are several Lithium Polymer batteries. ES Technologies served as basis for the Corvus Europe company.

Diederick Stam, Managing Director

After serving his duty for the military, Diederick Stam started to work at a well known German shipyard. He was responsible for all electric installations as well as all navigation and communication systems.

After a few years he started to work for one of Hollands most respected companies for navigation and communication systems. Diederick more and more specialized in integrated systems. Large computer networks are now very common on super yachts. Diederic has extended knowledge of these systems.

Together with Cor Meedendorp he founded Floattech and made that company succesfull. A few years ago he founded ES Technologies together with Cor.