Gary Winnick, Chairman & Founder
Gary Winnick is an international financier and philanthropist with a global investment career spanning more than three decades. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Capital Group, a diversified private equity investment firm. Mr. Winnick was also a Senior Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Pacific Capital Group has invested in a selective group of industries, such as material science, real estate, health care and telecommunications, including Global Crossing, of which Mr. Winnick was Founder and Chairman. Global Crossing laid the first privately financed underwater fiber optic cable across the Atlantic and partnered with Microsoft and Softbank Corporation to build a high capacity telecommunications network in Asia. The Global Crossing network spans a total of 130,000 miles worldwide. Mr. Winnick is a member of the board of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center and he is a recipient of the Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Laureate Award. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Long Island University.

John C. Cushman, Co-Chairman
An American real estate legend, Mr. Cushman serves on several other boards, including global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. where he is also chairman; ARTOC Universal Properties in Cairo, Egypt; D.A. Cushman Realty Corporation; and Callaway Golf Company. Mr. Cushman recently completed a two-year term as National President of the Boy Scouts of America. He currently serves on the board of the California Region I Homeland Security Advisory Council and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Mr. Cushman is a director of the National Park Foundation and the Real Estate Roundtable, and is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute – all in Washington, DC. In 2007, Mr. Cushman received The Hundred Year Association of New York’s Gold Medal “in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York.”

Tom Schneider, President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Schneider is an Ohio native and a graduate of Myers University Mr. Schneider is an Ohio native and a graduate of Myers University training classes at the Wharton School of Business. Mr. Schneider has had a diverse and progressive career leading sales, marketing and manufacturing operations globally. While with RockwellAutomation Mr. Schneider led marketing for the $4B control and information group and with Eaton Corporation he led sales, marketing and service for the $2B Hydraulics division.Prior to joining iCrete Mr. Schneider was the President & CEO for RMI Worldwide.

Trevor Gregory, President, iCrete International
Mr. Gregory has 36 years experience in the construction industry. He has been resident in Hong Kong for 26 years. He has worked throughout Asia and in the Middle East as well as in the United Kingdom, Micronesia and New Zealand. He has been instrumental in the introduction of leading edge technology systems in construction, especially those related to concrete and related products.

Mr. Gregory’s role within iCrete includes overseeing of all operations in Asia, Australasia and the Middle East.

Mr. Gregory is Member of Institute of Civil Engineers, U.K. (1982); a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers; a Member of the Institution of Arbitrators; and a Member of the Academy of Experts. In addition, he is the current Chairman of the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union; President of the Hong Kong Concrete Repair Association and Immediate Past Chairman of the Glassfibre Reinforced Concrete Association (based in UK).

Mr. Gregory has an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering from the United Kingdom.

Per Just Andersen, Chief Scientist
Dr. Per Just Andersen, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading experts in the materials science of concrete, and was the initial developer of the iCrete technology. He has more than 28 years experience in concrete technology and has pioneered many advanced technologies in the use of concrete, clay, silica, paper and biodegradable packaging materials. Dr. Andersen is the co-inventor of over 170 US and foreign patents.

Dr. Andersen has served as Senior Vice President of the Product Engineering Division of E. Khashoggi Industries (EKI) since 1992 and as the Chief Science Officer of Earthshell Corporation 2001-2003.

Dr. Andersen earned his Doctorate from The Technical University of Denmark. He also holds Master’s Degrees in Materials Science from the Materials Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University, and earned a second Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from The Engineering University of Denmark.

Craig Whitfield, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Whitfield has more than 25 years experience in corporate finance and was previously Director of Finance at iCrete. Prior to joining iCrete, he was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President at Trailer Park Inc and at Creative Domain, which was acquired by Trailer Park in 2006 – both leading providers of motion picture marketing services to the entertainment industry.

Mr. Whitfield has been Controller at Intellisys, which was a leading network integrator; at 4MC, which provides postproduction services to Hollywood; and at the magazine and book services division of ARAMARK, which is the nation’s largest wholesale publications distributor.

Mr. Whitfield has also served as a Senior Auditor in the Los Angeles office of Peat Marwick Main & Company, now part of the international financial auditing firm of KPMG.

Mr. Whitfield graduated Cum Laude from California State University, Fresno, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Bernard Benson, Vice President of Technology Development
Mr. Benson is an internationally recognized expert in industrial plant productivity and engineering who has driven the application of “general purpose” computing technology and software in the construction materials industry.

He was previously an executive with The Boeing Company, where he was recognized for technical excellence by NASA and the U.S. Air Force for contributions to the U.S. Space Shuttle and other programs involving space exploration and national defense. Mr. Benson is the former chief executive officer of BMG Corporation, which was acquired from the construction equipment division of Boeing, and of Seltec Corporation, which he purchased in1990. His work and technical advances with both companies has profoundly transformed the asphalt, concrete and aggregate industries in North America.

Mr. Benson is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), and holds an MS degree in Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Kirk Deadrick, Director of Technical Service
Mr. Deadrick has 24 years of experience in the concrete industry. Prior to joining iCrete, he was Director of Quality Assurance for Lafarge AC&A and responsible for all quality departments in the Eastern region. He previously served as Southeast Regional Manager for Technical Services at WR Grace & Co. where he tested new products for development.

During his career, Mr. Deadrick has also held executive positions at Roanoke Concrete Supply and Florida Rock Industries.

Mr. Deadrick received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Virginia Military Institute.

Jack Holley, Director of Concrete Development
Mr. Holley has 35 years of experience in the design and control of concrete, from basic conventional mixes to the high performance concretes required by the vast and record-setting eight-mile-long Confederation Bridge Project which now links Prince Edward Island with the New Brunswick mainland in Canada. He has received the Construction Practice Award, one of the highest honors bestowed by the American Concrete Institute.

Mr. Holley worked nearly a quarter of a century for Lafarge, today the world’s largest cement producer. Before leaving Lafarge, Mr. Holley was a company vice president and the senior-most executive in charge of quality assurance and new product development – a position he held for fourteen years. Before joining LaFarge, Mr. Holley was a senior consultant at Acres International and project manager for that company’s role in the building of several of the world’s largest hydroelectric projects in North America, Africa, and India.