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COMPANY INFORMATION - OFFICERS
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| Chairman/COO - Ronald J. Taylor |
Mr. Taylor, founder of the corporation is the Chairman of the Board, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary of Terra Moya Aqua, Inc. Mr. Taylor is the inventor of the initial design of the TMA wind torque unit that has been accepted for multiple United States and Foreign Patent Protection.
Mr. Taylor is responsible for oversight of corporate operations and that of the Engineering department regarding the design, testing and product development areas of the company.
He has been instrumental in developing many strategic corporate associations such as CPP Wind Engineering, Inc., Air Products Corporation, Waste Technology Corporation, TEC, Inc., Siemens USA, Duke Solar, Composite Technology Corporation and others. Previous to his renewable energy activities, Mr. Taylor was an investment broker / general securities principal for over ten years in Cheyenne , Wyoming .
From 1975 to 1985, Mr. Taylor was the broker / owner of a real estate firm in Montana that he founded upon selling the ranch he owned and operated.
Mr. Taylor has over thirty-five years experience in international and domestic business relationships, import and export, wind turbine manufacturing and product sales. |
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| President- Duane A. Rasmussen |
Mr. Rasmussen is the President of Terra Moya Aqua, Inc. Mr. Rasmussen is responsible for Business Development in the US and abroad for TMA and has presented power sales seminars and licensing agreement proposals in many states, as well as to major utilities in the states of Colorado , California , North and South Dakota , Washington , Texas.
Mr. Rasmussen presented TMA technology in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia , Bremerhaven , Husum and Mechlenburg Vorpommern in Germany and Madrid and Sevilla in Spain . Mr. Rasmussen has been successful in gaining approval of the installation of the TMA technology in Solano County in California and Whitman County Washington.
In addition to his activities in wind energy, Mr. Rasmussen has been associated with the design and formation of marketing concepts since 1962. Mr. Rasmussen's thirty five years experience in the Real Estate industry dealing with commercial, residential and development property and the financing thereof is and will continue to be a benefit to Mr. Rasmussen in his area of Business Development. |
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| Dirrctor - Shannon P. Murphy |
Mr. Murphy is the CEO and President of Rocky Mountain Alternative Technologies, Inc., which is located in Golden, Colorado.
Previously he was the Managing Director of Terra Support Systems (Pty) Ltd. in South Africa . Terra Support Systems and its subsidiaries provided a specialized range of technical, mining, manufacturing and engineering services and expertise and was also one of the largest raise boring contractors in the South Africa and internationally.
Mr. Murphy is a mining engineer and maintains very strong business relationships within the mining industry. Mr. Murphy was an Executive Director of KNJ Group of Companies, which was listed in the Industrial Sector of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. He was Director of the Subroc Group of Companies, located in Johannesburg , South Africa and additionally held numerous Executive and Directorship positions with other South African and American companies. |
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| Director - Gary E. Nordic |
Mr. Nordic is the President of Nordic Construction and Development, Inc. managing partner of Miramont Associates LLC, a company engaged in residential and commercial development and Miramont Office Park LLC. He is the developer of the Reserve, a residential subdivision in Estes Park , general partner in Rigden Farm, a residential and commercial development in Ft. Collins , Colorado and a partner and investor in several other real estate developments in and along the Front Range in Colorado.
Previously, Mr. Nordic was a director of the Commerce Bank of Fort Collins , and Voice It Worldwide Technologies, Inc. He has been responsible for and involved in the development and sales of over $180 million of real estate projects. He received his B.S. in Business Administration with focus in Business Management from Colorado State University in Fort Collins , Colorado .
In 1973 he received his real estate license and has completed over 560 hours of continuing education in sales, business, investing, construction, and development. |
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| Director - Tom Meissner |
Mr. Meissner has 35 Years of Government experience, including 11 years in the U.S. Navy as a guided missile and radar technician.
After being honorably discharged from the Navy in 1975, he was employed for seventeen years as a civilian by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, first as a Nuclear Electrical Systems Technician, and later as a Nuclear Electrical Systems Inspector. He then worked as a cost systems control manager in project management for eight years, where he was instrumental in implementing cost / schedule control systems and in establishing Navy industrial standards.
In 1994 he became a program integrator for the Defense Logistics Agency and became the chief of the east and north San Francisco Bay operations team until his retirement from federal service in 2001. Mr. Meissner graduated, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from Southern Illinois University.
He received a QASAR (Quality Assurance Significant Achievement Recognition) award from the National Aeronautics & Space Administration in 1997 for his role in restoring the production of a defense contractor critical to the space program. |
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| Director - Governor Jim Geringer |
Governor Geringer is a native of Wheatland , Wyoming . Geringer received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University . He served in the United States Air Force in both active and reserve capacities. During his time on active duty, he worked with the unmanned space programs integrating space boosters and satellites for both the Air Force and NASA, including the Global Positioning Satellite System, early detection/warning systems, the Interim Upper Stage for the Space Shuttle and the Mars Viking Lander. His reserve assignments included activation of the Peacekeeper missile system and planning for incidents that dealt with nuclear, biological and chemical warfare.
From 1983 to 1994, Geringer served in the Wyoming Legislature, including six years each in the House and the Senate. His committee chairmanships included Appropriations, Judiciary and Management Audit. He was contract administrator for the construction of a large coal-fired power plant then went into full-time farming.
Jim was first elected as Wyoming 's 30 th governor in 1994 and reelected in 1998. He completed his second term in January 2003. During his time in office Geringer focused on improving education through standards, accountability and technology, partnered with the State Supt to implement No Child Left Behind, implemented integrated education planning from pre-K through college, modernized economic planning to extensively include technology, changed how natural resource agencies among state, federal and local governments worked together, implemented strategic planning tied to performance based budgeting and when he left office, provided Wyoming state government with a budget surplus, one of very few states to make that claim early in 2003. He emphasized community based solutions particularly for health and social services and promoted the use of consensus building to resolve difficult issues.
Governor Geringer is a past chair of the Western Governors' Association. He has participated extensively in policy development for technology in government, was lead governor for energy issues and was involved in policy development for all levels of education. He served as chairman of the Education Commission of the States, was appointed to Senator John Glenn's National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century, the National Commission on Service-Learning, the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future and continues as charter member and now President of the Board of Trustees of the Western Governors University, the first of its kind to certify competency based education. He currently serves on the Association of Governing Boards for higher education and Operation Public Education initiative that advocates a value-added system to measure student learning.
His interests in information technology issues include chair of the National Governors Association Technology Task Force, appointment to the GeoSpatial One Stop Board of Directors, the Mapping Sciences Committee under the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, presidential appointee to the Western Interstate Energy Board, the Board of Governors of the Oquirrh Institute and co-chairs the Policy Consensus Initiative with former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber.
He has delivered several recent keynote presentations both national and international on education policy, distance learning, workforce development, health care, health data standards, energy, natural resources, homeland security, the importance of government services enabled through internet portals, and web-based infrastructure.
Geringer's advocacy for technology has centered on the end result of how technology enhances services, emphasizing the benefits of integrated service delivery and enterprise-wide solutions. That advocacy led Jim to join Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in the summer of 2003 as Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies. ESRI, the world leader in location based software and applications, is headquartered in Redlands , California .
Governor Geringer and his wife Sherri have five children and nine grandchildren. They reside in Wheatland , Wyoming . |
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| Director - John F. Nunley |
Mr. Nunley directed the energy office of the State of Wyoming for 12 years. While employed with the State of Wyoming , John was appointed to serve on a number of select western energy committees by Wyoming Governors Sullivan, Geringer, and Freudenthal.
Upon resigning from the Wyoming Energy Office, Mr. Nunley continued to serve on several of these committees at Governor Freudenthal's request. Mr. Nunley has an extensive background in the energy business, until recently serving as Chairman of the National Association of State Energy Officials, an organization representing energy officials from fifty states and five U.S. territories, plus the District of Columbia .
Prior to heading the Wyoming Energy Office, Mr. Nunley worked in electrical design and construction businesses, operating his own successful company for nearly 15 years, directing the switchgear testing division of a nationally known electrical contractor, and serving as Vice-President for Electrical Products, Composite Technology Corporation.
He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming and a master's degree in environmental engineering from the University of Cincinnati . |
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| Director - Thomas Newsom |
Mr. Newsom has 25 years of experience in the high tech capital equipment business, working for Hewlett-Packard Company, Fluke Company, and Agilent Technologies. During his career, he was Vice President and General Manager of $500M business at Agilent, a worldwide Vice President of Sales and Support with a team of over 500 employees, and a geographically dispersed Business Unit with operations in 4 countries. In addition to managing businesses, he has experience in acquisitions and divestitures.
Tom's experience in large capital equipment for the electronics and semiconductor industries provides a rich background for bringing new innovative technologies from the lab to the marketplace. He served as the product marketing manager the HP 3070, a large Automated Test Equipment (ATE) program which moved HP from #5 to #1 in the ATE market. In addition, he managed a $60M/year R&D budget and was accountable for producing complex systems including hardware, software, and mechanical subassemblies. His experience in mobilizing worldwide design and marketing teams to produce successful products with effective sales and support channels is proven though the success of many automated systems.
Mr. Newsom has been a frequent speaker at the International Test Conference, SEMI conferences in the US, Japan, China, and Singapore, Wescon in San Francisco, Productronica in Munich, and numerous other industry forums. He was recognized by VLSI Research as one of the top marketing executives in the semiconductor industry. He has spoken on numerous occasions to stock analysts and other opinion leader forums.
Tom earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with high honors from the University of Tennessee . In addition, he completed the 12 th executive MBA program offered jointly by Stanford and the National University of Singapore. He lives in Fort Collins , Colorado , and travels extensively throughout the US , Asia, and Europe . |
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Office - (307) 772-0200
Fax - (307) 772-0222
TMA. Inc.
Wyoming Financial Center
2020 Carey Ave., Suite 700
Cheyenne, WY 82001 |
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