45 patents issued/pending and sited reference in over 200 additional patents in four areas of technology.

For the last few years, Mike has been very concerned about global warming and the world's dwindling oil supply. As a pioneer of air cathodes as used in fuel cells and some batteries, Mike has come to the opinion that radical technologies such as fuel cells and the hydrogen economy can not be deployed fast enough to address the world's near term energy and green house gas problems. Because of this, Mike has worked intensely on a group of technologies which could dramatically increase the efficiency of gasoline engines, thus, reducing fossil fuel needs and global warming without massive new infrastructure. In late 2005, he developed working prototypes which have been confidentially reviewed by several leading university experts. In July 2006, he formed Transonic Combustion, Inc. with several of America's top venture capital firms, to bring these new engine technologies to the internal combustion engine marketplace.

In the late 90's, Mike formed V-Star and Zinc Matrix Power, Inc. V-Star pioneered rich media on cell phones in the US via a development contract for the Sprint Vision system. Mike invented 1KTV, an ultra-low data rate video system for limited bandwidth cell phones, which is still used today on select Sprint and Nextel phones. V-Star is now GOTV networks www.1ktv.com.

Concurrently with V-Star, Mike founded Zinc Matrix Power, Inc. to develop rechargeable zinc batteries for emerging smart phones www.zmp.com. The Company conducted a highly successful handheld field test in 2000 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), but repositioned to military applications soon after 9/11. ZMP entered into a strategic partnership with Intel in 2004 for laptop computers and received investments from Intel Capital and OnPoint, a venture capital fund of the US Army. Mike brought in later stage management to both V-Star and ZMP who have subsequently attracted later round venture capital funding.

In the 80's, Mike and wife, Charity, ran an electric race car/research team, Dreisbach Electromotive, Inc. (DEMI) which set numerous electric vehicle speed and range records and won the Department of Energy's first electric stock car race. (Front cover Popular Science, July 1991). An investor group spun out DEMI's zinc air battery technology to Air Energy Resources, Inc. (AERN). Later stage management took AERN public on NASDAQ via Prudential Securities in 1994 yielding a large multiple to DEMI's race team backers. The result of this work appears in modern digital compatible hearing aid zinc-air cells.

Mike started Ohio Scientific immediately after college with wife Charity. Ohio Scientific, an early microcomputer company is credited with shipping the first fully assembled floppy disk based microcomputer and the first non-removable (Winchester) hard disk microcomputer. Sold to M/A-COM Corporation (Now part of Tyco) in 1980 for a large return to investors. Wife, Charity, as Company president, was the front cover story of Money Magazine, January 1981.

Mike went on to form M/A-COM Santa Barbara Labs, who's technology was later acquired by HP for their Vectra line of touch screen PCs. Mike subsequently ran a think tank for HP from 1985 to 1993.

BA Physics, Hiram College 1974. Named top physics student in Ohio in 1969 by the Ohio Academy of Sciences (High School).

Ray A. Rothrock is a managing general partner of Venrock Associates. He joined Venrock in 1988 and became a managing general partner in 2001. His investment interests include energy, materials science, and information technology. Mr. Rothrock has directly participated in over 40 investments for Venrock. In addition to his activities at Venrock, Mr. Rothrock serves on the Board of the Texas A & M Foundation and is Chair of its Investment Committee. Mr. Rothrock received a B.S. summa cum lade in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A & M University, an S.M. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. with Distinction from the Harvard Business School. www.venrock.com

Matthew Trevithick is an Associate at Venrock, which he joined in 2004. His primary areas of investment are information technology, nanotechnology and energy. Prior to Venrock, Matt co-founded and sold two software companies, Flash Communications (a developer of instant messaging technology) was acquired by Microsoft in 1998 and LiquidMarket (a product search and comparison shopping service) was acquired by NBC Internet in 1999. Matt began his career in project finance and currency trading, gaining professional experience in Tokyo, London, Singapore and New York. Matt has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Management from the MIT Sloan School. www.venrock.com

Lee Bailey is an Advisory Partner at Rustic Canyon Partners, where he focuses on investing in energy based companies. Mr. Bailey started his career as a lawyer and then held several senior management positions with Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. ("ECD"), a publicly traded energy technology development company. Mr. Bailey also served as the White House Director for International Science and Technology Commercialization Programs from 1995 to 1997 where he represented the U.S. government in promoting its strategy of privatization and commercialization of technology developed in Russia, Egypt, Israel and South Africa. In addition, Mr. Bailey served as the CEO of several start-up companies, including the Rural Health Care Corporation and Quantum Medical Corporation. Lee Bailey is also a founding partner of US Renewables Group, LLC, a fund formed with the participation of Rustic Canyon Partners. US Renewables Group invests in renewable power and clean fuel assets. Mr. Bailey received a law degree from Washington University School of Law, an M.S. from Northwestern University and a B.A. from St. Lawrence University. www.rusticcanyon.com

Samir Kaul recently joined Khosla Ventures where he works closely with Vinod Khosla on energy projects as well as his traditional area of Biotech. Samir was formerly at Flagship Ventures. During his five years there, he was involved in starting and investing in a number of companies including Helicos BioSciences, Epitome Biosystems, Codon Devices, LS9 and Morphotek. As CEO for the first 18 months of Codon Devices, Samir raised the Series A Financing, built the technical and advisory team, and booked significant revenues in the company's first year of operations.

From 1997-2000, he worked at the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). At TIGR, Samir led the Arabidopsis thaliana sequencing project, the first plant genome to be completely sequenced. Mr. Kaul received a B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

Khosla Ventures was founded by Vinod Khosla, who started Sun Microsystems with funding from John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. In 1986, he joined Kleiner Perkins, where he continues as a general partner. Vinod Khosla is also passionate about alternative energy, petroleum independence, and the environment. Vinod is currently co-chairing a ballot initiative in California to reduce the dependence on petroleum and to help foster clean energy technologies. www.khoslaventures.com