H2Diesel Announces Appointment of John E. Mack to Board of Directors
February 15 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- H2Diesel
Holdings, Inc. (OTC:HTWO) (BULLETIN BOARD: HTWO) today announced
the appointment of John E. Mack to its Board of Directors. Mr. Mack
has over 30 years of international banking and financial business
management experience and expertise helping industry leading
companies to increase their revenue and build shareholder value. He
has managed offerings of over $50 billion of medium and long-term
debt and common and preferred equity issued in public and private,
domestic and international capital markets. Mr. Mack has served as
Senior Managing Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of
Shinsei Bank, Limited of Tokyo, Japan. He managed Shinsei Bank's
global Initial Public Offering (IPO) for which the Bank was awarded
the IPO of the Year from THOMSON DealWatch, an arm of Thomson
Financial, in recognition of its successful corporate
revitalization, contribution to creating strong investment
opportunities for institutional investors and the revitalization of
the Japanese financial sector. Under his guidance, the Bank raised
a total of $5.3 billion from a combination of the IPO and a global
follow-on offering. He played a vital role in the Bank's
recapitalization, re-listing of its common shares and enhancing its
domestic and international credit agency ratings. For over
twenty-five years, Mr. Mack served in senior management positions
at Bank of America and its predecessor companies, NationsBank and
NCNB, in Charlotte, North Carolina, including twelve years as
Corporate Treasurer. Mr. Mack has extensive merger and acquisition
and commercial and international banking experience and has worked
closely with investment bankers and external advisors with regard
to the sale of international import- finance products to domestic
customers. Mr. Mack holds an MBA from the University of Virginia
Darden Graduate Business School and received his AB degree in
Economics from Davidson College in North Carolina. He currently
serves as a Director of Incapital Holdings, LLC, a Chicago-based
NASD registered broker dealer specializing in issuing fixed-income
securities to retail investors, and Strategic Solutions, Inc., a
majority-owned subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation
responsible for purchasing and providing solutions for problem
loans. David Gillespie, President and Chief Executive Officer of
H2Diesel said, "We are delighted to have someone with John Mack's
extensive business experience and leadership skills as a member of
the H2Diesel board. We believe his business and financial
expertise, as well as his track record of helping noteworthy
companies grow value, will better position H2Diesel to successfully
execute its strategic plan. I look forward to working with John as
we seek to establish initial production capability and distribution
channels for our proprietary bio-fuel." Mr. Mack commented, "I'm
pleased to join the Board of Directors of H2Diesel and look forward
to working with the management team and helping to position the
Company for growth and performance as we move forward. We are
committed to establishing H2Diesel as a leader in the exciting and
growing bio-fuel industry and capitalizing on the significant
opportunities of its technology." About H2Diesel, Inc. H2Diesel is
a development stage company that holds an exclusive license for
North America, Central America and the Caribbean to proprietary
technology for the manufacture of an alternative "bio-fuel" from
domestically produced vegetable oils that is intended to be
marketed as a heating fuel, fuel for power generation, or
alternatively, as a new class of bio-fuel or fuel additive.
H2Diesel believes its bio-fuel can be used directly for home
heating and power generation and also potentially as a motor fuel.
The Company further believes its proprietary bio-fuel will provide
a cheaper, renewable alternative energy source with significantly
lower emissions than traditional fuels and a cleaner and more
efficient alternative to heating oil. H2Diesel's business model
calls for the establishment of bio-fuel production facilities
directly and through sublicensing of its technology to qualified
licensees. This news release contains forward-looking statements.
These forward- looking statements concern the Company's operations,
prospects, plans, economic performance and financial condition and
are based largely on the Company's beliefs and expectations. These
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that may cause actual results to be materially different
from any future results expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties related to
our business include all the risks attendant a development stage
business in the volatile energy industry, including, without
limitation, the risks set forth under the caption "Risk Factors" in
the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 26, 2006.
CONTACT: David Gillespie, President & CEO Carl Hymans H2Diesel
Holdings, Inc. G. S. Schwartz & Co. H2Diesel, Inc. 212-725-4500
ext. 304 713-973-5720 DATASOURCE: H2Diesel Holdings, Inc. CONTACT:
David Gillespie, President & CEO, H2Diesel Holdings, Inc.,
H2Diesel, Inc., +1-713-973-5720, or Carl Hymans of G. S. Schwartz
& Co., +1-212-725-4500 ext. 304,
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