Each person in the SKILLICORN Technologies’ project team legitimately stands at the very top of his or her expertise - globally. There are none better.
Robert Eric Kottler (Bob)
Water Sector Advisor
A Professional Civil Engineer with over forty years’ experience, mainly in International Markets working with leading contractors. In addition to Operational Management skills, Bob has worked extensively in Strategic Development and Business Procurement. This has covered Project winning through to Company acquisitions. Bob has held executive positions on a number of Boards for over 20 years with full P&L responsibility.
As International Director of Biwater, Bob was in charge of the design and construction of major water and wastewater schemes in over thirty-five countries. The list of projects that he was involved is extremely extensive, but highlighted a limited number of those that are the most relevant:
Water:
Wastewater:
As Managing Director of Christiani & Nielsen, Bob was in charge of the team constructing the Adani Port in Gujarat in India.
International Experience:
Lived and worked in Peru, UAE, Spain, Sweden, Ghana, and Germany. Further extensive international exposure in Greece, Nigeria, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Viet Nam, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, France, Spain, Sweden, Panama, South Africa, Uganda, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Bahrain, and the Ivory Coast.
Water Sector Advisor
A Professional Civil Engineer with over forty years’ experience, mainly in International Markets working with leading contractors. In addition to Operational Management skills, Bob has worked extensively in Strategic Development and Business Procurement. This has covered Project winning through to Company acquisitions. Bob has held executive positions on a number of Boards for over 20 years with full P&L responsibility.
As International Director of Biwater, Bob was in charge of the design and construction of major water and wastewater schemes in over thirty-five countries. The list of projects that he was involved is extremely extensive, but highlighted a limited number of those that are the most relevant:
Water:
- Omdurman Water Treatment Plant, Sudan. Value $130m 200mld
- Tamale Water Treatment Plant, Ghana. Value $56m 45mld
- Abuja Water Treatment Plant, Nigeria, Value $150m 200mld
- Negombo Water Treatment Plant and network. Value $45m
- Mendoza water Treatment Plant, Panama, Value $85m 120mld
- Other plants in Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Philippines, France, Romania, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, Singapore, Viet Nam.
Wastewater:
- Stonecutters Island WWTP, Hong Kong. 2,400mld
- Khenifra Treatment Plant, Morocco
- Managua WWTP, Nicaragua. 300mld
As Managing Director of Christiani & Nielsen, Bob was in charge of the team constructing the Adani Port in Gujarat in India.
International Experience:
Lived and worked in Peru, UAE, Spain, Sweden, Ghana, and Germany. Further extensive international exposure in Greece, Nigeria, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Viet Nam, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, France, Spain, Sweden, Panama, South Africa, Uganda, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Bahrain, and the Ivory Coast.
Dr Rolf Selset
After completing his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Oslo, Rolf took a research position with the Norwegian Fisheries Research Council examining pathways of chemical communication in fish. This began what was to become a long and very fruitful career in the fisheries industry.
Rolf’s introduction to aquaculture came from a short assignment with British Petroleum’s eel and salmon fisheries. Moving up the ladder, he then stepped through a series of technical (production) and managerial positions with major salmon, trout, sea bass and lobster farming companies: Stjørdal, Trondheim and TiMar. Today, Rolf is the Managing Director of Calcus AS and BioBase AS, two companies that are on the cutting edge of global innovation in aquaculture – both marine and freshwater.
Rolf Selset has fish and aquaculture related market, consulting and business interests that range from North and South Europe to Africa and South America. As with The Olmito Project in Texas and Skillicorn Technologies LLC, his companies have a strong interest in developing and promoting Lemnaceae species as both treatment agent and high protein feed for fish species. He will be promoting The Skillicorn System in Africa, East Asia and Europe. He will assist the Company with global sales and marketing of its aquaculture products while also helping to develop optimal, branded feeds containing Lemnaceae and aquatic worms. Rolf will also advise the Company on all matters involving aquaculture and continue to serve on the Advisory Team.
After completing his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Oslo, Rolf took a research position with the Norwegian Fisheries Research Council examining pathways of chemical communication in fish. This began what was to become a long and very fruitful career in the fisheries industry.
Rolf’s introduction to aquaculture came from a short assignment with British Petroleum’s eel and salmon fisheries. Moving up the ladder, he then stepped through a series of technical (production) and managerial positions with major salmon, trout, sea bass and lobster farming companies: Stjørdal, Trondheim and TiMar. Today, Rolf is the Managing Director of Calcus AS and BioBase AS, two companies that are on the cutting edge of global innovation in aquaculture – both marine and freshwater.
Rolf Selset has fish and aquaculture related market, consulting and business interests that range from North and South Europe to Africa and South America. As with The Olmito Project in Texas and Skillicorn Technologies LLC, his companies have a strong interest in developing and promoting Lemnaceae species as both treatment agent and high protein feed for fish species. He will be promoting The Skillicorn System in Africa, East Asia and Europe. He will assist the Company with global sales and marketing of its aquaculture products while also helping to develop optimal, branded feeds containing Lemnaceae and aquatic worms. Rolf will also advise the Company on all matters involving aquaculture and continue to serve on the Advisory Team.
Dr. Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor, holder of a PhD in Management from Vanderbilt University and a PhD in Agricultural Economics (Dissertation Topic: “Kenaf”) from the University of Missouri is widely acknowledged throughout the world to be the father of modern kenaf. Today, Dr. Taylor serves as principal and chief executive officer of a kenaf complex and an attendant cluster of kenaf and fiber related companies based in “The Valley” in South Texas – chief among these being Kenaf Industries of South Texas.
Dr. Taylor has worked tirelessly during the past 30 years to develop the basis for a vibrant kenaf industry in the United States. He has pioneered design and manufacture of kenaf farming, harvesting, preprocessing, processing (decortication and reduction), handling and post-handling equipment and systems – and continues to do so. He has developed, helped develop and promoted numerous kenaf fiber applications, ranging from such extremes as soil and drilling mud additives to extruded kenaf-reinforced plastics and biofuels (butanol). He is a recognized pioneer in the fields of kenaf seed multiplication and production of kenaf-based paper. Charles Taylor is “Mr. Kenaf.” He has no true peers.
Dr. Taylor and the Company acknowledge significant opportunities for collaboration and joint venturing – notably in the field of bioplastics.
Charles Taylor is also an acknowledged leader in the fields of rural and smallholder development – notably in Latin America and Southern Africa. He will advise the Company on all matters related to kenaf-based application, while also assisting with issues relating to smallholder engagement and smallholder development. Dr. Taylor will continue to serve on the Company’s Advisory Team.
Charles Taylor, holder of a PhD in Management from Vanderbilt University and a PhD in Agricultural Economics (Dissertation Topic: “Kenaf”) from the University of Missouri is widely acknowledged throughout the world to be the father of modern kenaf. Today, Dr. Taylor serves as principal and chief executive officer of a kenaf complex and an attendant cluster of kenaf and fiber related companies based in “The Valley” in South Texas – chief among these being Kenaf Industries of South Texas.
Dr. Taylor has worked tirelessly during the past 30 years to develop the basis for a vibrant kenaf industry in the United States. He has pioneered design and manufacture of kenaf farming, harvesting, preprocessing, processing (decortication and reduction), handling and post-handling equipment and systems – and continues to do so. He has developed, helped develop and promoted numerous kenaf fiber applications, ranging from such extremes as soil and drilling mud additives to extruded kenaf-reinforced plastics and biofuels (butanol). He is a recognized pioneer in the fields of kenaf seed multiplication and production of kenaf-based paper. Charles Taylor is “Mr. Kenaf.” He has no true peers.
Dr. Taylor and the Company acknowledge significant opportunities for collaboration and joint venturing – notably in the field of bioplastics.
Charles Taylor is also an acknowledged leader in the fields of rural and smallholder development – notably in Latin America and Southern Africa. He will advise the Company on all matters related to kenaf-based application, while also assisting with issues relating to smallholder engagement and smallholder development. Dr. Taylor will continue to serve on the Company’s Advisory Team.
Dr Ven Subiah
After receiving his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Mysore and completing a brief research assignment with the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore, India, Dr. Subiah took a post-doctoral position with NC. State University, where he was responsible for developing bioassay guided discovery of new herbicide lead compounds from microbial fermentation and plant derived natural products. This was the inception of what has become, for Ven, a trip to the very top of the plant extract business.
Following completion of Research Scientist and Principal Investigator positions with OSI Pharmaceuticals and Nabisco, Dr. Subiah accepted associate faculty positions with East Carolina University and NC State University and started Phytomyco, his own personal R&D vehicle. Today, Venn also manages PhytoPharmacon, and BioProcess, LLC from his offices in Garner, NC. He also controls a production vehicle, PhytoMyco Res. Pvt. Ltd. in Mysore, India – a natural product processing and product development company.
Dr. Subiah holds 25 patents and patents pending. He owns the largest plant extract collection and attendant database in the world – over 25,000 discrete samples. He has published over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 60 presentations at national and international scientific meetings. He has become an acknowledge world leader in both the science and business of plant and natural extracts. He will assist the Company with selection, production, and processing – as well as global sales and marketing of its plant extract products. Ven will, indeed, advise the Company on all matters involving plant extracts. He will also continue to serve on the Advisory Team.
After receiving his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Mysore and completing a brief research assignment with the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore, India, Dr. Subiah took a post-doctoral position with NC. State University, where he was responsible for developing bioassay guided discovery of new herbicide lead compounds from microbial fermentation and plant derived natural products. This was the inception of what has become, for Ven, a trip to the very top of the plant extract business.
Following completion of Research Scientist and Principal Investigator positions with OSI Pharmaceuticals and Nabisco, Dr. Subiah accepted associate faculty positions with East Carolina University and NC State University and started Phytomyco, his own personal R&D vehicle. Today, Venn also manages PhytoPharmacon, and BioProcess, LLC from his offices in Garner, NC. He also controls a production vehicle, PhytoMyco Res. Pvt. Ltd. in Mysore, India – a natural product processing and product development company.
Dr. Subiah holds 25 patents and patents pending. He owns the largest plant extract collection and attendant database in the world – over 25,000 discrete samples. He has published over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 60 presentations at national and international scientific meetings. He has become an acknowledge world leader in both the science and business of plant and natural extracts. He will assist the Company with selection, production, and processing – as well as global sales and marketing of its plant extract products. Ven will, indeed, advise the Company on all matters involving plant extracts. He will also continue to serve on the Advisory Team.
Mr. Stanford Harmon
Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University, Stan began his subsequent career in wastewater treatment managing a treatment plant water quality laboratory. Moving quickly into plant operations, he was soon appointed superintendent of that same facility. Over the next decade he studied for, and attained, what is a very rare qualification among wastewater treatment plant operators – the very highest in his profession – grade-4 operator. He also moved professionally to a position as regional director for Suez, the French multinational company, ranking only behind Veolia as the second largest water and wastewater services company in the world. He received several state awards in recognition of his expertise.
Stan thus occupies a truly unique pedestal. He is an expert in treatment and recycling of wastewater. He “knows” aquaculture in a visceral, almost personal way such as few commercial aqua-culturalists ever experience – koi owners inevitably become very close to their fish. Stan has also come to understand wood, lumber and woodworking in a manner no “framer” can ever understand. Finally, Stan brings to everything he touches, the artist that he has now become.
Every aspect of this truly unique person truly gains expression in the Skillicorn Holdings Systems now deployed in the Peruvian Barranca Parque Ecologico. As the designer of that park, Stan has been able to blend the artistic aspects of the “eco-science park,” with the unforgiving engineering requirements of wastewater treatment – notably wastewater treatment of the very highest quality – potable water. The result is quite spectacular. A “profitable no-fees” wastewater treatment plant producing a completely recyclable, treated effluent in a whimsical circumstance suitable for hand-holding couples, sightseers and even the occasional wedding ceremony.
Stanford Harmon will work as a consultant for SKILLICORN Technologies during design, construction and commissioning stages. He will hold architectural responsibility for issues of design, “placement” and aesthetics. He will have supervisory authority on matters relating to wastewater system operations. Finally, Stan will advise on matters relating to aquaculture and will continue to serve on the Company’s Advisory Team.
Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University, Stan began his subsequent career in wastewater treatment managing a treatment plant water quality laboratory. Moving quickly into plant operations, he was soon appointed superintendent of that same facility. Over the next decade he studied for, and attained, what is a very rare qualification among wastewater treatment plant operators – the very highest in his profession – grade-4 operator. He also moved professionally to a position as regional director for Suez, the French multinational company, ranking only behind Veolia as the second largest water and wastewater services company in the world. He received several state awards in recognition of his expertise.
Stan thus occupies a truly unique pedestal. He is an expert in treatment and recycling of wastewater. He “knows” aquaculture in a visceral, almost personal way such as few commercial aqua-culturalists ever experience – koi owners inevitably become very close to their fish. Stan has also come to understand wood, lumber and woodworking in a manner no “framer” can ever understand. Finally, Stan brings to everything he touches, the artist that he has now become.
Every aspect of this truly unique person truly gains expression in the Skillicorn Holdings Systems now deployed in the Peruvian Barranca Parque Ecologico. As the designer of that park, Stan has been able to blend the artistic aspects of the “eco-science park,” with the unforgiving engineering requirements of wastewater treatment – notably wastewater treatment of the very highest quality – potable water. The result is quite spectacular. A “profitable no-fees” wastewater treatment plant producing a completely recyclable, treated effluent in a whimsical circumstance suitable for hand-holding couples, sightseers and even the occasional wedding ceremony.
Stanford Harmon will work as a consultant for SKILLICORN Technologies during design, construction and commissioning stages. He will hold architectural responsibility for issues of design, “placement” and aesthetics. He will have supervisory authority on matters relating to wastewater system operations. Finally, Stan will advise on matters relating to aquaculture and will continue to serve on the Company’s Advisory Team.
Mr. James von Krosigk
With a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Texas, San Antonio, a further double-major bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Texas in Austin and a master’s degree in chemistry, also from UT, Austin, James von Krosigk holds valid claim to “a broad and very complete education.”
In his 30 year career with the oil and gas industry in Texas, Jim has worked for many companies as both employee and consultant – in the laboratory, in sales/marketing and also in management – most recently as President of his own company: Custom Resources, Inc., based in Austin, Texas.
Mr. von Krosigk holds twenty patents and patents pending with the USPTO. These fall, generally, into 4 fields: micro-emulsions, fungicides and fungal controls, drilling fluids, and production of dissolved oxygen enhancement in water-based fluids. He has also worked extensively in kenaf-based systems for remediation of petroleum residuals and production of advanced “next generation” biofuels.
James von Krosigk will advise project on use of kenaf for oil remediation, use of kenaf and arundo donax in production of next generation biofuels and, more importantly, treatment of water to reduce surface tension. The latter application, in particular, holds significant promise for lowering oxygenation costs and enhancing production efficiencies of Lemnaceae, fish and aquatic worms. Jim will work part-time in this capacity and continue to serve on the Company’s Advisory Team.
This sterling global team is buttressed by a phalanx of experienced and highly qualified local counterparts, drawn from throughout the state – and continuing to assemble. This local team, once “in place” and fully trained, will step in to manage all aspects of the project as it enters its subsequent phases.
With a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Texas, San Antonio, a further double-major bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Texas in Austin and a master’s degree in chemistry, also from UT, Austin, James von Krosigk holds valid claim to “a broad and very complete education.”
In his 30 year career with the oil and gas industry in Texas, Jim has worked for many companies as both employee and consultant – in the laboratory, in sales/marketing and also in management – most recently as President of his own company: Custom Resources, Inc., based in Austin, Texas.
Mr. von Krosigk holds twenty patents and patents pending with the USPTO. These fall, generally, into 4 fields: micro-emulsions, fungicides and fungal controls, drilling fluids, and production of dissolved oxygen enhancement in water-based fluids. He has also worked extensively in kenaf-based systems for remediation of petroleum residuals and production of advanced “next generation” biofuels.
James von Krosigk will advise project on use of kenaf for oil remediation, use of kenaf and arundo donax in production of next generation biofuels and, more importantly, treatment of water to reduce surface tension. The latter application, in particular, holds significant promise for lowering oxygenation costs and enhancing production efficiencies of Lemnaceae, fish and aquatic worms. Jim will work part-time in this capacity and continue to serve on the Company’s Advisory Team.
This sterling global team is buttressed by a phalanx of experienced and highly qualified local counterparts, drawn from throughout the state – and continuing to assemble. This local team, once “in place” and fully trained, will step in to manage all aspects of the project as it enters its subsequent phases.
Jeff Garwood
Chief Executive Officer
Liberation Capital; GE Water & Process Technologies; GE Fanuc; Garrett Aviation. Fund Management; Business Development and Corporate Management.
Chief Executive Officer
Liberation Capital; GE Water & Process Technologies; GE Fanuc; Garrett Aviation. Fund Management; Business Development and Corporate Management.
David March
Chief Executive Officer: Exergy Energy; Entropy Capital
Turnarounds: Harness entrepreneurial spirit and innovation, then leverage it with strong management processes and leadership to turn corporate vision into actionable strategies, tactics, processes and organizations.
Chief Executive Officer: Exergy Energy; Entropy Capital
Turnarounds: Harness entrepreneurial spirit and innovation, then leverage it with strong management processes and leadership to turn corporate vision into actionable strategies, tactics, processes and organizations.