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: 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.

Strategic Partner - Power Generation: Robert Farmer

Robert Farmer is President of Concept Communiqués, Inc. (www.conceptcommuniques.com), a Marketing Communications/Climate Change & Energy Consultancy . He is a planning engineer, engine industry executive, marketing communications specialist and accomplished public speaker on energy and climate change issues, with a particular interest in power generation and distributed energy systems planning. A British-born Canadian, he was a production planning engineer with Bristol-Siddeley Engines/Rolls-Royce Gas Turbines Ltd. in the United Kingdom before moving to Canada and eventually the USA. He has over 30 years of engine and energy industry experience in North America. For representative examples of his writing and thought on climate change, energy, and sustainable development issues, please visit www.ourenergyfuture.org/articles/index.html.

Mr. Farmer is also President of Third Planet, Inc. (www.thethirdplanet.org), a 501(c)3 non-profit operating foundation working on climate change and energy issues, and accredited observers to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Third Planet’s interests and expertise covers a complete range of urban and rural spatial planning issues from the ‘energy engineering and built environment’ perspective.

A Florida resident since 1984, Mr. Farmer is a member of the Climate and Energy Specialist Working Group of the World Conservation Union’s Commission on Environmental Law (IUCN CEL CESG), an accredited observer to the meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and was an accredited delegate to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Among many activities, he served on the Energy Advisory Committee of the Governor’s Commission for a Sustainable South Florida (1996-97); was a Future of Florida Assembly Participant (2000); a consultant to FDEP’s Florida’s Energy Future Report (2003-04), and a member of the Climate Change Advisory Group of the Florida Energy Commission (2007).

Advisor - Renewable Energy: Robert F. Stonerock, Jr., MD

Dr. Stonerock serves in an advisory capacity for CLEAN POWER’s health effects, safety outreach, and educational activities. Dr. Stonerock is a retired nephrologist (kidney specialist) and hyperbaric medicine specialist who currently is engaged in clinical pharmaceutical research. 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 while doing clinical research part-time. 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., an Orlando-based environmental non-profit and vice president of The Eco-Store, Inc. an online environmental retail store. He is also a member of the board of directors of AquaFiber, Inc., a company which specializes in waterway restoration programs resulting in biomass production. Dr. Stonerock is the current President of the Florida Renewable Energy Association, which is the Florida Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society.

Dr. Stonerock trains, writes, and speaks about all aspects of renewable energy and in particular emphasizes protecting human health from the effects of exposure to various fuels and industrial chemicals. A decades-long passion for renewable energy and its ability to allow us to live more in concert with nature has led him to pursue expertise in this field.