EcoPlus Inc. Announces Appointments to the Recently Expanded Board of Directors of EcoPlus Inc.
January 18 2008 - 9:30AM
Marketwired
CHARLOTTE, NC announced the expansion of the Board of Directors
for the company to four directors. Susan Chappell and Zev Kaplan
have been appointed to fill the two vacancies on the board, one of
which was created by the resignation of Ralph Rogers.
Ms. Chappell has over twenty years of market development, sales
and marketing management for business entities including
Bio-Ecological Services (BES)-Charlotte, NC, Waste Management
Technologies-Oak Brook, IL, Sinclair Broadcasting-Baltimore, MD and
Hearst Broadcasting-New York, NY. As Secretary and Director of
Sales of Bio-Ecological Services, Susan was responsible for
obtaining contract service from medical and research establishments
in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast for the disposal of biomedical
waste products. Ms. Chappell also participated in writing "model"
legislation concerning management of biomedical waste and
participated in collateral lobbying efforts.
BES was acquired by Waste Management Technologies and Susan
served as the New Business Development coordinator for Waste
Management's start-up operations in its new biomedical waste
disposal venture and assisted the corporate management group in
establishing sales organizations and expanded business models
alongside Waste Management's disposal offices nationwide.
In 1998, Ms. Chappell joined Sinclair Broadcasting to develop
new business advertising clients and to manage local market
reciprocal agreement negotiations. In 2003, Susan joined the
Hearst-Argyle Television as New Business/Non-Traditional Revenue
Producer then on to National Sales Manager in 2004 for WXII-TV
(NBC). In this capacity, Susan was responsible for negotiating
national advertising contracts and managing decentralized
representatives at offices in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit,
Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami and Charlotte.
Since 2005, Ms. Chappell founded 1st Security Insurance Agency,
Winston Salem, North Carolina and is owner and GM of Honda of
Winston-Salem, one of the largest multi-line powersports
dealerships in the Southeast.
Mr. Kaplan is President of EcoPlus West, LLC, a subsidiary of
EcoPlus Inc. Since March of 2005, Zev Kaplan has been General
Counsel to Cash Systems, Inc., a publicly traded company in the
financial services business. Mr. Kaplan has also been a member of
the Board of Directors of Homeland Security Capital Corporation, a
publicly traded company, since January 2006. From April 1995 to the
present, he has been General Counsel to the Regional Transportation
Commission of Southern Nevada. In addition he has had a major role
in the planning and financing of numerous major public
infrastructure projects in Las Vegas. Prior to starting his law
firm, he spent fifteen years in government service: Senior Deputy
D.A. with the Clark County District Attorney's Office-Civil
Division; General Counsel to the Nevada Public Service Commission;
and Staff Attorney to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation.
Mr. Kaplan received his J.D. from Southwestern University School
of Law and attended Georgetown University for post-graduate legal
studies. He holds an MBA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
and a B.S. from the Smith School of Business at the University of
Maryland.
Phil Hicks, President and CEO of EcoPlus Inc., stated that, "Mr.
Kaplan brings additional depth to the board of EcoPlus Inc. With
his level of experience in public companies and public sector
planning and finance he will be a major asset."
Hicks continued by commenting that, "Ms. Chappell's background
in general management and waste disposal management, lobbying and
marketing and the media, provides a significant level of expertise
to EcoPlus in the arenas where it functions."
About EcoPlus Inc.
ECPL (www.ecoplusinc.com) has a patent-pending, commercially
proven technology that utilizes an environmentally friendly process
for turning brown grease restaurant refuse into a high quality,
solid fuel product. This product can be used as a coal substitute
to produce power, as an adjunct fuel in waste-to-energy and steam
plant operations and as a fuel for industrial process heat over a
broad range of applications. The option to capture BTUs for energy
that is normally wasted is highly attractive in the tight energy
environment of today.
More information on EcoPlus Inc. is available on its corporate
website: www.ecoplusinc.com
Forward-Looking Disclaimer
Statements regarding financial matters in this press release
other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is
defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
The company intends that such proclamations about the Company's
future expectations, including future revenues and earnings,
technology effectiveness and all other forward-looking statements
be subject to the safe harbors created thereby. EcoPlus Inc. is a
development stage company that depends on outside resources to
maintain its continuation. Since these statements involve risks and
uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, the Company's
actual results may differ materially from expected results.
Factors that may affect forward-looking statements and the
Company's business generally include but are not limited to (i) the
risk factors and cautionary statements made in the Company's NASD
or SEC filings; and (ii) other factors that EcoPlus is currently
unable to identify or quantify, but may exist in the future.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the
statement was made. EcoPlus does not undertake and specifically
declines any obligation to update any forward-looking
statements.
Contact: EcoPlus, Inc. Investor Relations Toll-free:
877-494-0064
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