Board of Directors
Mr. Brent Brewer
Mr. Brewer brings more than twenty years of management experience with a proven combination of Marine Corps Officer leadership and enterprise executive management. He has earned a B.S. from the Ohio State University, a Certification from the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Brewer has a first-class background of successful leadership and challenging management roles that originated as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, where he earned the rank of Major before he elected to join the commercial sector. While in the Marine Corps, Mr. Brewer distinguished himself both as an F/A-18 Aviator, as well as a management professional with over a decade of leading Marines. In the commercial sector, Mr. Brewer has held exemplary leadership roles focused on enhancing the value and profitability of a company through sound decision-making, technology transfer, sales strategies, new business development, and organizational alignment. Mr. Brewer's number of executive management positions range from publicly traded software companies, such as StarBase Corporation and Fujitsu-Glovia to large venture backed early stage companies. Mr. Brewer culminated his over 10 years of research in the energy field in forming Brewer Energy Corporation, a renewable energy development company, and subsequently formed Brewer Joshua Tree Wind Farm prior to accepting his position as Chairman/CEO of American Environmental Energy.
Ms. Virginia Cha
Ms. Cha has over 28 years of executive and management experience in directly managing hi-tech commercial organisations in China, Singapore, and the US. She just returned to Singapore to pursue her PhD studies in Innovation at the National University of Singapore after four years of leading her own invested businesses in China. She is chairperson of her own investment holding company with science park development projects in China while spearheading Institute of Systems Science (a NUS post-graduate teaching institute)'s initiatives in management research. She also contributes her time in nurturing technopreneurs. In addition to being an INSEAD's Entrepreneur-in-Resident, she also teaches "New Venture Creation" at Fudan University, as part of an NUS Overseas College programme.
In the years 1997-2003, she successfully led two startup companies in Singapore and China and integrated them into public-listed companies when she was the co-founder/CEO of Singapore-based Star+Globe Technologies Pte Ltd and Executive Vice President for Hong Kong-based CyberCity Holdings and CEO of The 8th Network Corporation, a CyberCity invested firm in Beijing. Star+Globe was a spin-off software technology company from NUS. The company was the first in the world to offer Unicode-based commercial products to process multi-lingual applications and was awarded Singapore's prestigious bi-annual National Innovation Product Award in 1999 for its WinMASS product. CyberCity Holdings was one of the pioneering science park developers in mainland China, having created CyberCity Shenzhen (now known as Vision Century Shenzhen Business Park).
Between years 1995-1997, she held a brief two-year assignment at the Institute of Systems Science where she spearheaded the venture-funded technology spin-off model.
She started her career in 1980 in the U.S. as an assistant systems programmer in the operating systems department at Unisys (then Burroughs Corporation), with appointments in various positions, ending with Director, Advanced Technology reporting to the CTO. During her 15 years at Unisys, she held many management positions across many different product sectors, including operating systems, network communications and transaction processing.
Mr. Steven Byle
Mr. Byle, 41, brings 20 years of experience and technology development in the energy industry to American Environmental Energy. Mr. Byle is a successful entrepreneur, engineer, and patent attorney. He holds a J.D. degree in law from the University of Texas School of Law with Honors, specializing in Intellectual Property Law, and a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, School of Engineering with Highest Honors. Mr. Byle has a track record in domestic and international business and is presently the Vice President of Technology for Dockwise, an energy services and transportation company in the offshore oil market with annual revenues of nearly US $500 million. Mr. Byle is also a member of the board of a diverse group of companies, including Proteonomix, a stem cell research company and Core Rubber Resources, an international manufacturing and distribution company.
Mr. Walter O'Brien
Mr. O'Brien, 34, brings over 15 years of corporate, entrepreneurial, and consulting experience in small to medium enterprise business environments to American Environmental Energy. Mr. O'Brien is a successful entrepreneur and has extensive knowledge and experience in process methodologies, globalization, and regulatory compliance. Mr. O'Brien furthermore has worked with other corporate leaders to reduce risks and costs while improving revenue and efficiency at companies such as Capital Group ``The American Funds,'' Oracle, Fujitsu, Microsoft-Trados, Baltimore Technologies, and Critical Path. He has a Bachelors of Science with Honors in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, at Brighton, England. Mr. O'Brien led the Irish national team in the1993 International Olympics in Informatics for high speed computer problem solving. In addition, the U.S. Government awarded Mr. O'Brien with an Extraordinary Ability EB-1-1 visa in 2001.
Mr. William McManes
Mr. McManes, 59, brings 30+ years of executive management experience in small - high growth, mid-sized and fortune 1000 companies in the technology sector where he led sales, distribution channels, and strategic business development. Mr. McManes is a respected professional in the industry and has established himself as an expert in turnaround scenarios for many ventures. His experience includes both the public and private sector where he has held senior executive positions with numerous companies, including Software AG, Intersolv, Template Software, Amdal, Starbase, and Computer Associates. Mr. McManes holds a B.A. in Philosophy with a minor in Political Science and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. Most recently, Mr. McManes was a principal in Crosslink, a private company specializing in outbound marketing and call center operations in the B2B space that was sold to Symcom Global Technologies.