H2Diesel Announces Appointment of Michael Burstein as Chief Financial Officer
September 11 2007 - 11:58AM
PR Newswire (US)
HOUSTON, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- H2Diesel Holdings, Inc.
(OTC:HTWO) (BULLETIN BOARD: HTWO) today announced the appointment
of Michael Burstein as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Burstein has a
diverse background in finance that spans over 15 years. Previous to
his appointment at H2Diesel, he served as the Chief Financial
Officer and Vice President of Operations for S2 Systems, a leading
supplier of enterprise payment transaction solutions for the
financial services sector, where he was responsible for managing
all of the Company's financial, legal, consulting services, and
human resource activities on a global basis. Additionally, Mr.
Burstein held the position of Chief Financial Officer for Navini
Networks, a leading provider of Mobile WIMAX(TM) solutions, where
he oversaw all of the company's financial operations on a worldwide
level. He also served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Global
Operations for EXE Technologies, a developer and supplier of supply
chain execution software for e-commerce and traditional businesses,
where he managed all of the company's financial and operational
activities worldwide and assumed direct responsibility for the
company's domestic services and support organization of over 220
professionals. At EXE, he oversaw the growth to over $115 million
in annual revenues and spearheaded the company's successful initial
public offering in August, 2000. Mr. Burstein was also the Vice
President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer of
Sequel Systems and Vice President and CFO of Paradigm Geophysical
Limited where his duties included budgeting, forecasting, internal
and external reporting, investor relations, and mergers and
acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he worked at Occidental
Chemical Corporation as a Senior Financial Analyst and then worked
his way up to Manager in their corporate energy group, where he was
responsible for managing the acquisition of natural gas,
electricity, steam and fuel oil for company-owned manufacturing
plants. At Occidental, Mr. Burstein was responsible for evaluating
and developing cogeneration opportunities, representing the
company's interests before regulatory agencies, negotiating power
sales agreements and overseeing the corporate energy efficiency
program. Mr. Burstein holds a Master of Business Administration and
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern
Methodist University. "We're very excited to have an individual
with the depth and breadth of experience that Michael Burstein has
as our CFO," stated David Gillespie, President and Chief Executive
Officer of H2Diesel. "Michael's long experience in the financial
arena and capital markets coupled with his direct energy industry
background will be a tremendous asset as we continue to execute our
business plan for commercializing our renewable biofuel." Mr.
Burstein commented, "I'm looking forward to joining the H2Diesel
team. The Company's unique biofuel represents a great opportunity
in the rapidly expanding renewable energy field and I'm delighted
to be a part of it." About H2Diesel Holdings, 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 biofuel 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 biofuel or fuel additive. H2Diesel
believes its biofuel can be used directly for home heating and
power generation and also potentially as a motor fuel. The Company
further believes its proprietary biofuel 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
establishing biofuel 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 Annual Report on Form
10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. CONTACT: David
Gillespie, President & CEO H2Diesel Holdings, Inc. 713-973-5720
Rob Schatz Wolfe Axelrod Weinberger Associates, LLC 212-370-4500
DATASOURCE: H2Diesel Holdings, Inc. CONTACT: David Gillespie,
President & CEO of H2Diesel Holdings, Inc., +1-713-973-5720; or
Rob Schatz of Wolfe Axelrod Weinberger Associates, LLC for H2Diesel
Holdings, Inc., +1-212-370-4500
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