Fred S. Zeidman - Chairman of the Board
Mr. Zeidman, Chairman of the Board since April 2009 and a director since August 2008, has held leadership positions in a number of energy related companies. Since March 2009, Mr. Zeidman has been a Senior Director for Governmental Affairs at Ogilvy Government Relations in Washington D.C.   In March 2008, Mr. Zeidman was appointed the Interim President of Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc. (“Nova”), a biodiesel technology company, and has served as a Nova director since June 2007. He served as a Managing Director of the law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP from July 2003 to December 2008. Mr. Zeidman has served as Chairman of the Board of Corporate Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm, since July 2004, and he served as Chairman of the Board of Seitel Inc., an oil field services company, from June 2002 to February 2007. Mr. Zeidman serves as the Chairman of the Board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Washington University in 1968, and an MBA from New York University in 1970.

Larry D. Ryan, Ph.D. – Chief Executive Officer and Director
Dr. Ryan has served as SulphCo’s Chief Executive Officer since January 2007 and as a Director since February 2007.  Previously, he was a senior executive in General Electric’s Advanced Materials Division, where he spent 9 years in technical and business leadership roles, most recently as the Business Manager for the Elastomers and RTV unit. Prior to his role as Business Manager, Dr. Ryan served as Technology Director for GE-Bayer Silicones and Global Technology Leader for the Elastomers and RTV division of GE Advanced Materials in Leverkusen, Germany. He is a graduate of the prestigious General Electric Edison Engineering Development Program, a technical leadership program focused on process engineering projects and product quality improvements and has extensive experience in the Six Sigma business process methodology. Dr. Ryan has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware.

Robert H. C. van Maasdijk – Director
Mr. van Maasdijk has been a director since April 2005 and is the former Chairman of Mulier Capital, an investment bank. During 2006, he sold Attica Alternative Investment Fund, Ltd., a private investment fund, of which he was Chairman and CEO and had headed since 1999. For the previous 16 years, he served as Managing Director and CEO of Lombard Odier Investment Portfolio Management Ltd. Over his 36-year career, he has held executive, portfolio management and research positions with Ivory & Sime, Edinburgh; Banque Lambert, Brussels; Pierson Heldring Pierson, Amsterdam; and with Burham and Company, New York.

Lawrence G. Schafran – Director
Mr. Schafran has been a director and Audit Committee Chairman since December 2006 and has extensive experience in the financial markets, complex litigation and corporate governance, and is a member of the Board of Directors of other U. S. publicly-traded companies.  Mr. Schafran currently is a Managing Director of Providence Capital, Inc., a private New York City based activist investment firm, specializing in small-cap mining and oil/gas exploration firms. He has held this position since July 2003.  From 1999 through 2002, Mr. Schafran served as Trustee, Chairman/Interim-CEO/President and Co- Liquidating Trustee of the Special Liquidating Trust of Banyan Strategic Realty Trust. He also currently serves as a director of RemoteMDx, Inc., Tarragon Corporation, National Patent Development Corp., New Frontier Energy, Inc., and DollarDays International, Inc.  Mr. Schafran received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Finance and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin.


Robert J. Hassler – Director
Mr. Hassler has been a director since April 2009 and has a broad knowledge of the petroleum industry, with extensive experience in operations, planning and project management.   His career encompassed 33 years with ConocoPhillips in technical and senior management roles in refining and marketing, as well as exploration and production.   In 2004, he became President of ConocoPhillips’ East/Gulf Coast US Refining and, in 2006, President of ConocoPhillips’ European Refining and Marketing.   Mr. Hassler retired in 2008.   He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska and a Masters in Management from MIT.


Orri Hauksson - Director
Mr. Hauksson has been a director since April 2009 and has extensive experience in a wide range of industries.  During his career, he has held various business development, management and board positions.  He was responsible for launching new shipping routes for the N-European shipping company Eimskip, was the Icelandic Prime Minister’s Political Adviser, oversaw venture capital investments at Argnor Wireless Ventures in Stockholm and was a sales manager for U.S. software company Maskina.  During 2003-2007, he was a Vice President responsible for R&D, business development and M&A at Síminn, Iceland’s incumbent telecommunications operator.  He was a board member of Straumur, a publicly listed investment bank with operations throughout Scandinavia in 2004-2005.   He joined Novator Finland Oy, an international capital investment firm as Deputy Director in 2007, is currently on the board of the shipping and storing company Eimskip and is stepping down from the board of the Finnish telecommunications company Elisa.  Mr. Hauksson holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Iceland.