Key Personnel

President: David E. Bruderly PE

David Bruderly has over 30 years’ experience in project management and business planning on energy, environmental, and transportation projects. These include CNG, LNG, LCNG, hydrogen and electric vehicles and infrastructure; environmental permits for utility and industrial facilities; operation and maintenance of hybrid electric and electric vehicles; and expert testimony about related subjects. He holds a BS in marine engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY, and an MS in ocean engineering from Columbia University. Past employers include the US Navy, Roy F. Weston, Inc., ESE, Inc. the Harbor Branch Foundation, and Lamont Geological Observatory.

Mr. Bruderly’s special interest is advocacy for establishment of the hydrogen economy. He has contributed the past eleven years to the effort, involving demonstration projects, training, public addresses, participation in international workshops and meetings, lobbying, establishment of the Florida Hydrogen Business Council, editorials, and availing himself of all opportunities to promote hydrogen as the fuel of choice for powering the future. He was a founding member of the US Delegation to ISO TC 197—Hydrogen Technologies, and has served on a variety of working groups since 1990.

He currently serves as a member of the Clean Fuel Florida Advisory Board and was a member of the Energy Advisory Committee of Governor Chiles’ Commission for a Sustainable South Florida. He is also a member of the Sound Science Initiative of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

In July of 2002, Mr. Bruderly announced his candidacy as the Democratic Candidate for Congress representing Florida District 6, and won the September 10th Primary. His political website can be found at www.bruderly.com.

Vice President: Robert Farmer

Robert Farmer is a planning engineer and energy/climate change policy specialist and has over 30 years engineering, sales and service management experience in the engine power industry in North America. A British-born Canadian, he received his education as a Planning Engineer following a 5-year engineering apprenticeship with Bristol-Siddeley Engines/Rolls-Royce Gas Turbines PLC in the United Kingdom. His application expertise includes large to small-scale power generation, combined heat and power (CHP), marine and surface transportation, and alternative fuel applications.

He is also a Managing Partner of Concept Communiqués, Inc., an energy and environmental public relations and marketing company where he works on his education, training and public awareness consulting projects from his base in Fort Lauderdale. He uses his in-depth knowledge of the issues to develop the political, regulatory and social frameworks necessary to facilitate introduction of tomorrow’s energy technologies. For his writing on climate change, sustainable development and energy policy issues, please visit this link: www.conceptcommuniques.com/articles/index.html.

A Florida resident since 1984, Mr. Farmer was a member of the Energy Advisory Committee of Governor Chiles’ Commission for a Sustainable South Florida. He serves on the Board of the Gold Coast Clean Cities Coalition (a Department of Energy initiative), and is a member of the Southeast Air Coalition for Outreach (SEACO, a Florida Department of Environmental Protection initiative). He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Tallahassee-based environmental law firm, Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation, Inc. (LEAF). He is a member of the board of Third Planet, the Florida-based publicly supported non-government organization.

Vice President: John Jones MBA BSEE PE

John Jones received his BS in electrical engineering at Tri-State University, in Angola, Indiana, in 1980. He attended Post-Baccalaureate classes in computer science and graduate classes in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering at the University of Florida and subsequently, in 1995, he achieved a Masters in Business Administration at the University of Florida. During his 21-year engineering career his employers have included the University of Florida Physical Plant and CH2M-Hill.

Serving as a Project Manager/Senior Engineer/Engineer based in Gainesville, Mr. Jones has managed design and construction of a wide variety of electrical and mechanical projects associated with the production, distribution, and use of electricity, including combined-cycle generation, substations, distribution, HVAC, and end-use appliances in commercial and institutional buildings.

Director: Ted E. Belser PE

Ted Belser is a Registered Professional Engineer and Certified General Contractor with more than 25 years of engineering design, construction, and facilities management experience. He received a BS in mechanical engineering in 1977 at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Prior to 1996, he was employed for 19 years with CH2M-Hill, a leading environmental consulting firm. He was project manager and lead design engineer for that firm and was responsible for various phases of the design and construction of more than 80 projects with an aggregate value of more than $190 million. From 1996 to the present he has been a consulting engineer through his own firm, Integrated Project Delivery, Inc., and now through CLEAN POWER.

Director: Steven Misiaszek

Steven Misiaszek received his BS in biology at Syracuse University and his MS in oceanography at Florida Technological University (now University of Central Florida). He specializes in fuel cell power systems and other hydrogen-related energy technologies and has over 17 years of experience in program management, system design, and research and development.

He has extensive experience in low-temperature fuel cells, their applications, and related high-efficiency energy conversion systems. He led the design effort for the development, production, and testing of a 3 kw Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell in an independent power system for a manned submersible.

More recently, he was responsible for the design and development of a PEM fuel cell/battery hybrid-electric power system for automobiles—from initial conceptual design to final acceptance-tests. Other fuel cell power system design experience includes modification and development of successful PEM fuel cell power system designs for terrestrial, surface and subsurface marine, and aviation applications. Recent efforts include fuel cell stack and system design for human-portable power systems for military and commercial applications.

Mr. Misiaszek also has experience in the design, fabrication and operation of electric, ICE/battery hybrid, and fuel cell/battery hybrid vehicles.

Secretary/Treasurer: Robert F. Stonerock, Jr., MD

Dr. Stonerock serves as facilitator for CLEAN POWER’s health effects and safety outreach and educational activities. Dr. Stonerock is a nephrologist (kidney specialist) and hyperbaric medicine specialist. He practiced medicine in Orlando, Florida, for 21 years where he was a managing partner for his multi-specialty medical practice and medical director of two hospital intensive care units and two kidney dialysis centers prior to retiring to enter the field of renewable energy. He received a BS at Rollins College and his MD degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

He is vice president of the board of directors of Eco-Action, Inc. and vice president of The Eco-Store, Inc. An Orlando-based environmental charity and environmental retail store, respectively. He is also a member of the board of directors of AquaFiber, Inc., a company which specializes in environment-friendly packaging derived from plant material harvested during waterway restoration programs also managed by the company.

Dr. Stonerock trains, writes and speaks about protecting human health, the safety and health effects of exposure to various fuels and industrial chemicals, and the treatment of illness and injury from exposure to unhealthy working conditions. It was these interests that brought him to the field of alternative energy solutions, the use of cleaner, safer fuels and energy technologies and his recognition of the importance that hydrogen represents for our energy future.

Strategic Partner: Paul J. Hirsch

Paul Hirsch received a BA from the University of West Florida and has over 30 years experience in the public and private-sectors. His public sector expertise is in congressional relations, federal installation management and real estate at both the corporate and field levels of the federal government. From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Hirsch served as a key operative in defining and justifying to Congress the multi-billion dollar construction and housing programs of the Departments of State and Air Force. He provided advice and counsel to department political appointees and General Officers as an important member of their immediate staff and during this period, Mr. Hirsch served on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant (LEGIS Fellow), utilizing his expertise for a Member of the House Appropriations Committee.

His private-sector experience includes working with Congress, the Executive Branch, and state and local governments in the area of economic development, defense facility enhancement, technology, and public policy issues where one of his clients has been the National Hydrogen Association. In addition to his general lobbying activities on behalf of public-and private-sector clients, Mr. Hirsch has spent the last nine years working in the area of defense downsizing and was the Director of Review and Analysis for the 2001 Base Realignment and Closure Commission.