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Mr. Walter R. Wheeler, also known as Rick has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Geospace Technologies Corporation since January 1, 2014. Mr. Wheeler served as the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at Geospace Technologies Corporation. Mr. Wheeler is responsible for sales, manufacturing, information technology and safety departments. He is one of leading design engineers and has 27 years of experience in seismic data acquisition system design. Mr. Wheeler joined OYO Geospace in 1997 and previously worked for 13 years as a Design Engineer at Input/Output, Inc. (now known as ION Geophysical Corp.). Mr. Wheeler received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.

Prior to founding Bloom Energy, Dr. KR Sridhar was Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona where he was also a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Under his leadership, STL won several nationally competitive contracts to conduct research and development for Mars exploration and flight experiments to Mars. KR has served as an advisor to NASA and has led major consortia of industry, academia, and national labs. His work for the NASA Mars program to convert Martian atmospheric gases to oxygen for propulsion and life support was recognized by Fortune Magazine, where he was cited as "one of the top five futurists inventing tomorrow, today." As one of the early pioneers in green tech, KR also serves as a strategic limited partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and as a special advisor to New Enterprise Associates. He has also served on many technical committees, panels and advisory boards and has several publications and patents. In 2016, KR was selected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. KR received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the University of Madras (now called NIT, Trichy), India, as well as his master's degree in Nuclear Engineering and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Stephen DeFalco leads global, technology companies and is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Creation Technologies, a award winning scalable EMS solution company and also an affiliate partner at Lindsay Goldberg Private Equity. He is also Chairman at Senseonics, a NYSE listed diabetes care company with a novel implantable continuous glucose monitor. Previously he was CEO of Crane Currency, MDS, and US Genomics. Prior to that he held leadership positions at PerkinElmer, United Technologies, McKinsey & Company, and IBM.Specialties: Business transformation, growth, acquisitions.

Farzad Dibachi is a CEO and Co-Founder at Noribachi and CEO and Co-founder at Inxeption and is based in South San Francisco, California. He has worked as Chairman/Founder at Niku, President/CEO at Diba Inc, and Senior VP at ORACLE CORP. Farzad studied at SJSU.

Chuck Bernthisel is a Chief Executive Officer for Freudenberg Oil & Gas at Freudenberg Oil & Gas Technologies and is based in Plymouth, Michigan.