Board Of Directors

Theodore P. (“Tip”) Fowler

is an accomplished executive with global experience in mining, fertilizer, chemicals, and transportation. He has led major organizations through transformation and growth, including restructuring Freeport McMoRan Sulphur Company for a successful sale as the company’s president and driving Fertiberia SL’s turnaround in Spain as the company’s General Director. Tip played a key role in forming the IMC-Agrico joint venture while overseeing operations for Mosaic predecessor companies and later served as President of Florida’s largest intrastate motor carrier. As the first CEO of JDCPhosphate (now NovaPhos), he secured substantial funding to commercialize breakthrough phosphate fertilizer technology, earning international recognition and sharing multiple patents. He was awarded the Pierre Becker Memorial Award from the International Fertilizer Association in London for his contributions to that technology. He has advised on capital formation for sustainable energy and agricultural ventures and currently serves as CEO of K-Technologies, Inc. Tip holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Tulane University, an MBA from Loyola University New Orleans, and completed The Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

JAMES S.D. (“DINTY”) LEACH

Mr. Leach is a Director of China Construction Bank (Asia) (formerly known as Bank of America (Asia) Ltd.). He has spent most of his career in Hong Kong working on various appointments with the Kadoorie Family. During this time he was exposed to many privately held and public operations, with a later focus on the Kadoorie family’s associated public held corporations, including CLP Holdings, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, and Tai Ping Carpets. Mr. Leach was closely involved from the inception of China Light and Power’s international operations in Thailand, India and Australasia. In the early 1980s, he ran a venture capital company which invested in oilfield equipment manufacturing and construction materials. Mr. Leach holds an MBA from Columbia University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He currently resides in Victoria, BC, Canada.

WES BERRY

Mr. Berry serves as Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of the Company. He is a holder of some 25 U.S. and foreign patents and an author of numerous technical papers covering a wide range of chemical processing technologies. He was employed in various management capacities with a number of fertilizer, engineering and technology development companies (Advanced Separations Technologies division of FP&L Corporation, Stearns-Rodgers Corporation, International Minerals & Chemicals Corporation, and Borden Chemical Co.), and has been president of his own consulting company W.W. Berry and Associates LLC since 1989. Mr. Berry has both a BSChE and MSChE degree from the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL, and is a member of AIChE, American Chemical Society, American Oil Chemists Association, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi. Mr. Berry resides in Lakeland, FL.