James Young, PhD
Director and Chairman of the Board

 

Dr. Young currently serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) and is on the Board of Directors for 3-V Biosciences, Inc., a private drug company. Dr. Young was President of R&D for MedImmune, Inc. from 1988 through 2008 following its $15.6 billion sale to AstraZeneca PLC in 2007.  During his tenure, Dr. Young was directly involved in the development of approximately twenty clinical programs and commercialization of numerous key drugs while overseeing approximately 1,500 people and an annual budget in excess of $700 million.  At the time of his retirement from MedImmune, Dr. Young was a Director in the Department of Molecular Genetics at Smith Kline and French Laboratories, now part of GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Young has served on the Boards of Directors of Xencor, Inc., Iomai, Inc. and Arriva Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Baylor College of Medicine.

 

 

Stan Lis
Director

 

Mr. Lis is a co-founder, President & Director of MicroCoal® Technologies Inc. since its inception in 2006. From 2000 until 2006, he was President, CEO & Director of Stream Communications Network & Media Inc., a cable company where he was directly responsible for taking the company from start up to 60,000 subscribers and personally raised over 37 million USD for the company. From 1993 until 2000, Mr. Lis acted as President, CEO & Director of Trooper Technologies Inc., an environmental company focused on waste management in Central Europe. In 1988 he founded International UNP Holdings Ltd., a Toronto Stock Exchange Investment Company used to acquire and finance privatized Polish state enterprises. Mr. Lis studied Business Administration and Securities at the Simon Fraser University.

 

William C. Hudson
Independent Director

 

Mr. Hudson has been an Independent Director of MicroCoal® Technologies Inc. since 2010. In 1992, he founded The Domus Group, a private holding company that invests in and develops real estate properties in South Texas including a 1,000-acre Master Planned Community with 2,600 households and over $300 million of tax base created to date. Mr. Hudson was also co-founded, in 1989, International UNP Holdings Ltd. Mr. Hudson was a key team leader in the acquisition of control of the public shell corporation, designing the business plan, assembling a first-rate board and competent management team and raising the initial $20 million in investment capital. In 1979, he co-founded Hudson & Hudson Partners, a Texas general partnership that managed real estate, mineral exploration & production and securities investments. Mr. Hudson worked as a Geologist with the Continental Oil Company from 1975 to 1980. He was also a director of First Valley Bank Group, Inc. a $450 million bank with branches in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas from 1968 to 1997, and was crucial in growing the bank 10-fold while retaining strong earnings.
 

Ian Hume
Independent Director

 

Mr. Hume has been an Independent Director of MicroCoal® Technologies Inc. since 2010. In 1969, he joined the World Bank as an economist. His career at the World Bank included macroeconomic work, project assignments, and management positions from Division Chief, Assistant Director of Energy Department, Resident Representative and Country Director in Poland. Since 1994, Mr. Hume has worked on a range of private energy ventures in electric power and coal industries including: technical advisor to EUROGAZ Gas Pipeline from 1995 to 1996, coordinator of a consortium for an LNG Feasibility Study in Poland in 2007, formed an independent evaluation group and quality assurance group for the World Bank between 2005 and 2010, and acting as a local US Partner for C2E, a coal to liquids technology company in Hong Kong and the USA since 2009.