Henry P. Anderson III
Mr. Anderson is co-owner of Pioneer Nursery in Visalia, California, the primary Californian supplier of Pistachio rootstock. More than three million Pioneer Gold trees have been planted since 1981. As President and Director of Pistachio Growers, Inc., a California co-op, he is responsible for marketing its members' pistachio production. Mr. Anderson is also a Director of the Western Pistachio Association, an organization that lobbies on behalf of western pistachio interests.
Charles Eckberg
As vice-president of Investec Real Estate since 1994, Mr. Eckberg plans environmentally sensitive residential and commercial developments in California. He also has extensive trust banking experience with the Bank of America.
Mr. Eckberg has advocated society's conversion to renewable energy technologies for nearly 30 years. As a director of Get Oil Out!, an internationally recognized NGO originating from the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California, Mr. Eckberg sought greater transparency regarding the energy sector and controls over off-shore oil development in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Additional NGO activities by Mr. Eckberg include 13 years as a director (three years as president) of Santa Barbara's Community Environmental Council, a prominent think tank on recycling. Mr. Eckberg has also been a director of Santa Barbara's Sustainability Project, a non-profit organization that raises community awareness regarding green building design, land use and resource issues.
As a member of the Dean's Council of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara, Mr. Eckberg introduced the Company to the school, which earlier this year welcomed Sea Breeze as a corporate partner. Mr. Eckberg received bachelor degrees in Economics and Political Science from UCSB in 1970.
Mark Hoffman
Mark Hoffman is an engineering contractor in California, and president and owner of Mark Hoffman General Engineering, where he manages the daily financial, personnel, equipment, and field activities. In business since 1985, the company now grosses $4 million annually, for work such as paving and underground utilities installation and maintenance. Mr. Hoffman is also a partner in Hoffman and Son Farming, and Rancho Vitello, an organic veal-raising business. Rancho Vitello is the only American company of its kind to have been certified to European standards.
Paul B. Manson
Mr. Manson has worked in the natural resources industry since 1987. He has fostered the growth of several companies in their start-up stage, and has extensive experience in the administration of public companies. In addition to serving as President of Sea Breeze Power, he is also president of the financial and management consulting firm Banks Island Management Services Inc.
Ken Puryear
Mr. Puryear, along with his business partner, owns Pioneer Nursery in Visalia, California. Pioneer Nursery has been the primary supplier of pistachio rootstock to California for over 30 years. Its patented Pioneer gold rootstock, which is Verticillium wilt-resistant, is the variety of choice by most California growers. More than three million Pioneer Gold trees have been planted in California orchards since release in 1981.
Mr. Puryear is Secretary and a Board Member of Pistachio Growers, Inc., a California Co-op responsible for marketing its members' pistachio production.
A Commissioner of the California Pistachio Commission from 1989 through 1994, he was re-elected in 1998 through 2004.
Currently, Mr. Puryear is involved in several other successful partnerships and corporations specializing in plant breeding, farm management and pistachio developments.
