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.

Stanley W. Farmer – Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary
Mr. Farmer has served as our Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since June 2007. Mr. Farmer was also appointed as the Company’s Treasurer and Corporate Secretary in March 2009. From June 2005 to June 2007, Mr. Farmer was an audit partner at Malone & Bailey, PC, a full service certified public accounting firm specializing in providing audit services to small public companies.  From November 2004 to April 2005, Mr. Farmer was the Chief Financial Officer at Texas Energy Ventures, L.L.C., a wholesale and retail energy holding company.  From May 2003 to November 2004, Mr. Farmer was an Assistant Controller at Reliant Energy Wholesale Group, a subsidiary of Reliant Energy, Inc., a provider of electricity and energy-related products to retail and wholesale customers.  From April 2000 to May 2003, Mr. Farmer was a Senior Director at Enron Corp. in its accounting transaction support group.  Mr. Farmer has also held management positions with a focus in the energy sector at Arthur Andersen LLP (May 1997 to April 2000) and KPMG LLP (January 1991 to May 1997).  Mr. Farmer has a B.B.A in Accounting from Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas), is a certified public accountant (Texas) and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

M. Clay Chambers – Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Chambers has served as our Chief Operating Officer since February 2008.  From March 2003 to February 2008, Mr. Chambers worked for El Paso Corporation (“El Paso”), a large natural gas pipeline operator and natural gas producer, as a consultant advising on the sale of El Paso’s chemical assets after the acquisition of Coastal Corporation by El Paso in 2001. Mr. Chambers has over 35 years experience in the refining and petrochemical industry, having begun his career with UOP, Inc. and having held senior management positions with Coastal Corporation and Texas City Refining. At Coastal Corporation he served as Vice President of Refining, Senior Vice President of International Project Development and Senior Vice President of Petroleum Coordination. Mr. Chambers had overall management responsibility for refineries located in Corpus Christi, Texas; Eagle Point, New Jersey; Mobile, Alabama; Wichita, Kansas and Aruba, with a total crude capacity of 538,000 barrels/day. He has extensive expertise regarding the full range of refinery and petrochemical processing units and has also held senior management positions in the product, crude supply and petroleum marketing areas.  Mr. Chambers holds a professional degree in Chemical & Petroleum Refining Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from the University of Houston.

Florian J. Schattenmann, Ph.D. – Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Schattenmann currently serves as our Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and has been with the Company since August of 2008. From December 2006 to July 2008, Mr. Schattenmann was the Global Elastomers and European Technology Leader at Momentive Performance Materials (formerly General Electric Advanced Materials), a manufacturer of high-technology material solutions with a product portfolio that included silicone-based products, fused quartz and ceramics. From May 2006 to December 2006, Dr. Schattenmann was Technology Director for GE-Bayer Silicones based in Leverkusen, Germany. Dr. Schattenmann joined the GE Advanced Materials business from the GE Global Research Center where, from May 2001 to April 2006, he successively led several laboratories focused on the development of advanced technologies ranging from electronic materials to selective catalysis to nano-structured materials. Dr. Schattenmann is a certified Master Black Belt from GE in Six Sigma process methodology, holds seven patents and is the (co-)author of numerous peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Schattenmann has a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from M.I.T.

Jeffrey R. Freedman – Vice President of Corporate Development
Mr. Freedman joined SulphCo in February of 2009. Prior to joining SulphCo, Mr. Freedman served on the board of directors of Allis-Chalmers Energy, Inc. ("Allis-Chalmers") from January 2005 until April 2007, when he became Allis-Chalmers’ Corporate Vice President. Mr. Freedman also served as Allis-Chalmers’ Executive Vice President – Corporate Development from January 2002 to November 2002. Since January 2003, Mr. Freedman has been involved in private investments. From 1994 through December 2001, Mr. Freedman was Managing Director – Oil Services and Equipment for Prudential Securities with responsibilities for institutional equity research of oilfield services and contract drilling companies in the U.S. public markets. Mr. Freedman has been involved and held various positions with major institutional brokerage firms in equity research relating to the oil service sector over the last 30 years. Mr. Freedman has an MBA-Finance & Accounting from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BSBA-Finance from Babson College.

Richard K. Sell – Director of Business Development – Americas
Mr. Sell joined the Company in July 2008 and leads the Company’s business development initiatives in the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Sell brings to SulphCo more than thirty year’s experience in the crude oil markets. He served as Senior Managing Director Crude Oil Supply & Trading and Senior Managing Director Petroleum Origination (Commercial Activities) at El Paso Merchant Energy- Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of El Paso Corporation, where he had direct responsibility for the purchase of 1.5 million barrels per day of crude oil from national producers such as Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Venezuela, and Angola, among others. Before that Mr. Sell was a Senior Vice President at Coastal States Trading Inc. and Coastal Petroleum, N.V. where he managed the economic supply of crude oil for the entire Coastal Corporation refining system. More recently, as a partner in Riverway Petroleum Partners, LLC, he performed consulting services for oil companies, national oil producers and pipeline companies on projects including the marketing of new crude production, corporate governance and the economics for a proposed deep water pipeline. Mr. Sell has a B.A. in Economics from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.