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Board of Directors
William G. Klehm
CEO, Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Bill Klehm is Fallbrook Technologies Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer and has over 20 years of automotive-related experience. With numerous leadership
positions in the automotive business, including finance, marketing,
sales, product development, and manufacturing operations, he
has a proven track record of leading and growing successful
organizations. Most recently, Bill served as President and
general manager of Newgen Results Corporation, an automotive
customer relationship management firm. During his three-year
tenure, Newgen’s revenue and profit grew from $60 million
to over $108 million and $6 million to over $15 million respectively.
Prior to joining Newgen, Bill served as President and SBU director
for Visteon Climate Control Systems. He was instrumental in
developing and launching Visteon’s $1 billion Aftermarket
Division. Bill started his career with Ford Motor Company in
1985 and held a variety of posts within the Ford Customer Service
Division where he was responsible for developing and executing
the marketing/growth strategy for the $5 billion customer service
parts business.
Bill holds a B.A. in Management and Marketing from Northwood
University and also participated in the Executive Development
Program at Harvard University.
Gary E. Jacobs
Director
Gary Jacobs is an investor and philanthropist. He is the Managing Director of Jacobs
Investment Company, which participates in real estate development and other investment activities
throughout the United States and abroad. In addition, he has multi-million dollar investments in several
other venture capital funds. He also owns and operates a professional minor league baseball team,
the Lake Elsinore Storm, affiliated with the San Diego Padres.
Gary serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for High Tech High, a public charter high school, and is
a board member of the San Diego Symphony and the UCSD Board of Overseers. Gary's other philanthropic
work includes being a past president of the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County. Additionally,
Gary and his wife created and funded the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute
which promotes Muslim / Jewish understanding.
Prior to his current investment and philanthropic activities, Gary worked as a software engineer and
senior education specialist at QUALCOMM, Inc. and as a software programmer at Linkabit Incorporated.
Gary holds a B.A. in Management Science from the University of California at San Diego.
Al Kammerer
Director
Al Kammerer spent 34 years with Ford Motor Company before retiring in 2008 as product development director for Jaguar Land Rover. While at Jaguar Land Rover, in addition to delivering all of the cycle plan vehicle programs, he led the product strategy to bring Jaguar to profitability and led the creation of a sustainable Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing strategy and product plan for the next decade and beyond. This work ultimately led to the successful sale of Jaguar Land Rover. Prior to this assignment, Al served as executive director for SUV and body-on-frame vehicles in North America, where he led product development activities for Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles with these platforms.
In his previous work with Ford, Al also served as vehicle line director based in the U.K. for the group that developed the critically-acclaimed Ford Focus and directed the launch in both Europe and North America.
Al holds a B.S., Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA and an M.S., Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Keimpe Keuning
Director
Keimpe Keuning is Investment Director at SAM Private Equity AG, a subsidiary of Robeco, a Dutch-headquartered asset management firm wholly owned by Rabobank. Robeco was established in Rotterdam in 1929 and has offices located world-wide. Robeco offers a wide range of investment products and services to institutional and private investors. SAM is an investment group focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing. The firm’s offering comprises asset management, indexes and private equity.
Keimpe joined Robeco in 2006 and his focus is on Clean Technology investments. He is also on the boards of Enerpulse Inc., the Albuquerque, New Mexico based maker of the Pulstar (TM) pulse plug, AWS Eco Plastics Ltd., the UK based plastic bottle recycling company and SPG Solar LLC, the solar integrator based in Novato, California. Prior to Robeco, Keimpe worked at Fortis Bank as Associate Director where he advised a broad range of clients on numerous transactions. He began his working career at Ernst & Young as a tax advisor.
Keimpe studied U.S. and International tax law at the University of Florida and received a master's degree in tax law from the University of Leiden. He holds a diploma from the Institute of Directors and has also participated in executive education at the Amsterdam Institute of Finance and INSEAD.
Edward L. Mercaldo
Director
Edward L. Mercaldo has been involved in the financing of natural resource exploration and development companies for almost thirty years. He has been a director of Norwood Resources, a TSX Venture company engaged in oil and gas exploration, since August 2001. As Executive Vice President, CFO and Director of Diamond Fields Resources Inc., Ed negotiated its acquisition in August 1996 by Inco Ltd. Following that transaction, he served on the Inco Ltd. board until September 2000 where he served as a member of its audit committee. He has provided financial and strategic business advice to numerous natural resource companies and has also served on the boards of several U.S. and Canadian companies. Ed enjoyed a career of more than 25 years as an International Commercial and Investment Banker with several leading financial institutions including Wachovia, Bank of Montreal, Bankers Trust Company of New York, Gordon Capital and First Marathon Securities.
Ed is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has completed the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School.
Steven E. Parry
Director
Steven E. Parry is a Managing Director of NGEN Partners LLC. He began his career as a professional geologist and worked in the minerals industry for more than 25 years. However, his career in geology focused on the development, implementation and management of deal pipelines and deal structures and he was involved in approximately 200 transactions. Steve's pioneering efforts, popularizing a venture capital approach to early stage investment in the mining business, are well known in the industry.
Prior to NGEN, at Billiton plc and BHP Billiton, Steve held the position of Vice President Business Development and General Manager, Innovation for the company’s exploration subsidiary. As a principal in BHP Billiton’s venture capital group, he was responsible for creating its first technology venture fund in 2001. Steve is also a member of the board at Artificial Muscle, EnviroTower, eps corp, Powerspan, SolFocus, Tioga Energy, and Venture Vehicles.
Steve is a BSc graduate of Queen’s University, Canada, and a MSc graduate from the University of Western Ontario.
Jeremiah B. Robins
Director
Jeremiah Robins is the Chairman and CEO of Great Pond Management Company
(GPMC) which he formed in 1979.
GPMC is a private equity firm whose primary focus is the growth and development of middle market manufacturing companies.
Jere has served as the Chairman and controlling shareholder of the GPMC core holdings and throughout his career has participated in the successful development of companies in such diverse fields as Iron and Steel, Specialty Chemicals, HVAC, and Semiconductor Packaging.
Jere is also currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thermal Dynamics Corporation (TDX), a manufacturer of specialty heat exchangers for the North American OE Automotive and Industrial markets. TDX maintains sales, engineering and manufacturing facilities in both the U.S. and the Peoples Republic of China.
Additionally, he is the Chairman of Rotation Dynamics Corporation (Rotadyne) a multinational manufacturer of consumables for the commercial printing industry with facilities in North, Central and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, and the Peoples Republic of China.
Jere maintains residences both in San Diego, California and Shanghai, PRC and divides his time equally between the U.S. and China.
Vincenza Sera
Director
With more than 25 years of investment banking experience, Vincenza Sera is an advisor to senior executives and boards of directors. She is currently chair of the Ontario Pension Board, which she joined in 2004. From 1992 to 2004, she served as Managing Director of Financial Institutions Group, Investment Banking for National Bank Financial. During 2003 and 2004, Vincenza was co-head of the Canadian Financial Institutions Group (FIG) practice of Putnam Lovell NBF, which specializes in investment banking activity for global FIG clients.
Vincenza has an MBA (finance) degree from the University of Toronto and an honors bachelor business
administration (accounting) degree from the University of Windsor
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