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Donald Anthony, Sc.D., chief technology officer at GreatPoint Energy, is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, engineering, research, technical project development, operations and licensing. He brings more than 30 years of executive and technology management experience from the energy, chemical, engineering, construction and manufacturing industries. Dr. Anthony has spent his entire career involved in the coal gasification process, ranging from research & development, to commercial design and plant operation. Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy, Dr. Anthony served as president and executive director of the Council for Chemical Research, a 25 year old non-profit organization consisting of 30 leading chemical industry companies, 140 leading research universities, and 10 national laboratories. During his tenure, he was responsible for overall leadership and strategic direction, engaging in an active advocacy role for new energy solutions, including coal gasification. In 2001, Dr. Anthony served as president, CEO and director of NineSigma, a rapidly growing entrepreneurial company providing proprietary tools to facilitate industry transition to an open innovation environment. He brought the company to cash breakeven in two years and negotiated a strategic alliance with Procter & Gamble. In 1998, Dr. Anthony was named president and COO of ABB’s $550 million U.S. process automation business, having previously served as president and COO of the Bailey Controls Company, a $300 million global supplier of automation technology. From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Anthony held a number of management positions at Bechtel, including vice president, petroleum and chemicals technology, in which he was charged with overseeing the company’s gasification efforts including (i) engineering design, construction, and start-up for Phase II of Tennessee Eastman coal gasification plant, (ii) engineering design, construction, and start-up for the TECO IGCC plant (Dr. Anthony was a member of Project Steering Committee), and (iii) forming strategic alliances with Conoco, Texaco and Shell to promote petroleum coke gasification; vice president of Asia Pacific operations; and vice president of worldwide refining. Dr. Anthony completed his doctoral research on coal gasification at M.I.T. While on the M.I.T. chemical engineering faculty, he was consultant to one of the first fluid bed coal gasification technologies, FMC’s COED process. In 1975 he joined Standard Oil to start a coal conversion research program. Five years later, he became manager of Standard Oil’s commercial development efforts in synthetic fuels. These efforts included sponsorship of the Texaco Cool Water Demonstration project and partnership in the Hampshire Coal Gasification project. In 1985, he was named Vice President of Standard Oil R&D. Two years later, he became Vice President of BP America Research. Dr. Anthony is a member of the University of Chicago Review Committee for the Energy Portfolio of the Argonne National Laboratory. He is a past member of the National Research Council’s Energy Engineering Board and participated in a number of evaluations of coal gasification readiness and economics. He served as chairman of the board of the Glennan Microsystems Initiative and was an executive council member of the Northeast Ohio Regional Technology Coalition (NorTech). He is also a past member of the M.I.T. Department of Chemical Engineering Visiting Committee. Dr. Anthony received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toledo and his S.M. and Sc.D. from M.I.T. | 