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• JOHN D. KUHNS - Executive Chairman and Director

  John D. Kuhns was elected Executive Chairman of the Board in April of 2012. Mr. Kuhns became an investor in GPEC in 1999 and has served as a Director of the Company since April 2000. He has more than 30 years of experience in investment banking, and in alternative energy businesses, including several involving solar energy. Mr. Kuhns has founded and completed initial public offerings for several companies, most recently including China Hydroelectric Corporation (CHC: NYSE), China’s largest foreign-owned hydroelectric power company, as well as The New World Power Corporation (NWPC: NASDAQ), the first wind farm company to go public, and Catalyst Energy Corporation (CE: NYSE), one of the country’s most successful hydroelectric developers and recognized by Inc. Magazine as the nation's fastest growing public company in the five years from 1982 to 1987. Mr. Kuhns is the Chairman and CEO of Kuhns Brothers, an investment banking boutique and one of the oldest continually operating investment firms in the United States, tracing its origins to 1842. Mr. Kuhns is a graduate of the Harvard Business School (M.B.A., 1977), the University of Chicago (M.F.A. in Fine Arts, 1975) and Georgetown University (A.B., in Sociology and in Fine Arts, 1972), where he was captain of the varsity football team and is a member of the University's Athletic Hall of Fame.

• DEAN L. LEDGER - Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, President and Director

  Dean L. Ledger has served as a Director and senior executive of the Company since its inception and was instrumental in its founding. Mr. Ledger is the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President. Mr. Ledger has significant experience in capital formation and business building as he played instrumental roles in both Universal Display Corporation and InterDigital Corporation from their inception. From 1994 to 2012, Mr. Ledger served as Executive Vice President-Corporate Development of Universal Display Corporation. From July 1994 to January 2001, Mr. Ledger served as a member of the Board of Directors of Universal Display Corporation. From December 2001 to July 2003, Mr. Ledger served as a member of the Board of Directors of North American Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NATK). From May 1991 until October 1992, Mr. Ledger was a consultant to the IntelCom Group. Mr. Ledger served as a consultant to InterDigital Communications Corporation from October 1989 to April 1991. Prior to October 1989, Mr. Ledger spent 12 years as a financial consultant with E.F. Hutton, Shearson Lehman Brothers and Paine Webber. He is a graduate of Colorado College (B.A., Business Administration, 1972).

• DAVID WM. BOONE - Director 


  David Wm. Boone has served as a Director of the Company since 2000. Mr. Boone is board certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer, having met the requirements of the Florida Bar, Board of Legal Specialization, and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is licensed to practice law in front of the U. S. Supreme Court, as well as several other federal and state courts. Mr. Boone is recognized in distinction as a Fellow of the National College of Trial Advocacy and has served as a faculty member there since 1986. Mr. Boone has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer and in Best Trial Lawyers in America, and has litigated complex civil cases, including personal injury, wrongful death, air crashes, professional malpractice, product liability, commercial litigation and qui tam actions brought on behalf of the federal government. He is a founding member of the law firm, Boone & Stone which maintains offices in Atlanta, Ga., Blakely, Ga., Orlando, Fl., and Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Mr. Boone is a Life Member and past president of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the National Transportation Bar Association, and the Lawyer-Pilot Bar Association. In addition, he is a Life Member of the American Association for Justice (formerly, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America), a member of the AAJ President’s Club and Leader’s Forum, and he has served on the Board of Governors for that organization, the executive committee, the College of Advocacy, and numerous other committees. Mr. Boone is a Sustaining Member of the Florida Academy of Trial Lawyers and is a past Director of the Georgia Brain Injury Association. Mr. Boone has authored a number of articles and is a frequent lecturer at legal seminars on the subjects of trial practice, tort law and legal ethics. He is an active general aviation pilot, holding an Airline Transport Pilot certificate with a Cessna Citation C500 type rating, and a Commercial Pilot License for single engine land and sea. He has been flying for thirty nine years and has over 12,000 hours of general aviation flying in more than 70 different makes and types of aircraft. Mr. Boone is a graduate of Samford University (J.D., 1978) and the University of Central Florida (B.A., 1975).