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STWA Corporate Bios

Names and Biographical Information on Offeror's Key Personnel:
STWA, Inc. Management Team:

Cecil Bond Kyte, Chairman and CEO
Cecil Bond Kyte, Chairman/CEO Mr. Kyte has been CEO of STWA since 2009 and was a Director and Chairman of the Company prior. For over twenty four years Mr. Kyte was a pilot, flight academy instructor, and airline captain. Mr. Kyte has been an investor in a number of businesses, including oil and gas and financial business consulting services. He is a longtime owner of oil & gas wells with dozens of oil producers throughout North America. He was also a co-founder of SwissGuard International, GmbH, a financial consulting firm based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Charles R. Blum, President and Director
Mr. Blum started his career after attending Rutgers University and enlistment in the US Army (1957-1959). From 1960 to 1980 he worked for Keystone Automotive, concluding his tenure there as VP of Sales and Marketing. From 1980 until 2002, Mr. Blum served as President/CEO of Specialty Equipment Manufacturer's Association (SEMA), the world's largest automotive association with thousands of members and significant influence on the automotive industry from the top down. From 2002 to the present, Mr. Blum has been a consultant to organizations and companies like SEMA, Borla Exhaust, and APC.

Gregg Bigger, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Bigger recently appointed CFO of STWA. He was most recently Founding Partner of Rocfin Advisors, a Strategic Management Consulting Company providing advice and direction to a variety of clients including companies in the energy, clean tech, and emerging technology markets. Prior, Mr. Bigger was Founder and Board Member of The Bank of Santa Barbara. Earlier in his career Mr. Bigger held a variety of key management and leadership positions including U.S. Trust as a Vice-President in the Private Client Group, and First Republic Bank as a Vice President and Manager in the Private Banking Group. Mr. Bigger also served in the United States Marine Corps' Special Operations in Amphibious Warfare and Cliff Assault.

Advocacy Chain of Expertise:
Temple University: 

Dr. Rongjia Tao, Chief science team and intellectual property owner / co-developer
Chair, Department of Physics, Temple University
Temple University Dr. Tao Bio
Managing Editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics B and Modern Physics Letters B
Chair, International Advisory Committee, 12th Annual International Conference on Electrorheological Fluids and Magnetorheological Suspensions

Selected Publications:

  • "Three-dimensional Structure of Induced Electrorheological Solid," R. Tao and J. M. Sun, Phys. Rev. Lett. V67, 398-401 (1991).
  • "Laser Diffraction Determination of the Crystalline Structure of an Electrorheological Fluid," T. J. Chen, R. N. Zitter, and R. Tao,  Phys. Rev. Lett. V68, 2555-2558 (1992).
  • "Simulation of Structure Formation in an Electrorheological Fluid," R. Tao and Q. Jiang, Phys. Rev. Lett. V73, 205-208 (1994).
  • "Super-strong Magnetorheological Fluids", R. Tao, Journal of Physics:Condensed Matter Physics, V13, R979-R999 (2001).
  • "Three-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals of body-centered tetragonallattice structure", R. Tao, D. Xiao, Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 4702-4704 (2002).
  • "Structure and dynamics of dipole fluids under strong shear," R. Tao, Int. J. of Modern Physics B, V17, N16, 3057-3063 (2003).
  • "Structure and Dynamics of Dipolar Fluids under Strong Shear," R. Tao, Chemical Engineering Science, V. 61/7, 2186-2190 (2006).
  • "Reducing the viscosity of crude oil by pulsed electric or magnetic field," R. Tao and X. Xu, Energy & Fuels, 20, 2046-2051 (2006).
  • "The Physical Mechanism to Reduce Viscosity of Liquid Suspensions," R. Tao, International J. of Modern Physics B, V. 21, N28&29, pp4767-4773 (2007).
  • "Structure of Polydisperse Inverse Ferrofluids: Theory and Computer Simulation," Y. C. Jian, Y. Gao, J. P. Huang, and R. Tao, J. of Physical Chemistry B, 112, pp 715-721 (2008).
  • "Electrorheology leads to efficient combustion," R. Tao, K. Hunag, H. Tang, and D. Bell,  Energy & Fuels (2008).