Executive Biography

Brent Perry, CEO

Brent is an experienced and passionate leader in the marine industry, and has a history of building high performance teams and service organizations. As a professional boat builder, he has taken the opportunity to travel around the world, working with people of numerous backgrounds, cultures and languages; sharing his passion for excellence with others, and building some of the most beautiful custom and production yachts in the world.

His clear sense of purpose and his dedication to great customer service relationships have enabled the companies he has worked with to thrive. His skills at creating and inspiring operational excellence in organizations has led him to his position with Corvus Energy, where he leads a ground breaking team into the green field business of advanced lithium power.

He believes strongly in giving back to the world which has offered himself and his family many exciting and diverse experiences. He is dedicated to preserving the environment he loves through recyclable technology which eliminates emissions and helps to reduce pollution.

During his time off, Brent enjoys hiking, camping and yachting with his family, designing boats and sharing his collection of acoustic guitar music with his friends.

Neil Simmonds, CTO

Mr. Simmonds has worked in the battery industry for over twenty five years. He has been the lead researcher on numerous research projects and has developed products for many of the worlds’ leading original equipment manufacturers including Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Phillips Communications, Sony Corp., NEC, Panasonic, Sanyo, Rayovac Corp. to name a few, as well as numerous government and military organizations. Neil holds over 70 patents in the field of battery management.

Neil enjoys playing ice hockey and fishing, and he likes fine food and fine wine.

• The first commercially available battery conditioning system for nickel cadmium batteries (circa 1987).
• The first sub-4C charging algorithms for nickel cadmium batteries (circa 1991).
• The first sub-1C charging algorithms for nickel metal hydride batteries (circa 1993).
• One of the first single-unit multi-chemistry chargers for NiCd, NiMH and Li-on batteries (circa 1995).
• The first universal input starved-regulator technique for Li-ion/LiP batteries (circa 2000).
• The lowest cost full-function charger for Li-ion/Lip batteries (circa 2001).
• A highly integrated controller for the control of Li-ion batteries in electric and hybrid electric vehicles (circa 2005).

George Roddan, CMO

Mr. Roddan has been involved in consulting and hydrodynamic design of marine craft for the last 28 years. He has extensive experience in physical model testing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and performance evaluation, as well as in detailed structural design and driveline engineering for all types of vessels.

He has worked with most of the leaders of the marine industry, both in North America and abroad. His work has included the design and testing of the latest mega-yachts, large passenger vessels, as well as sailboats and other marine craft. He has particular expertise in improving and trouble-shooting custom and commercial yacht designs with performance-related issues.

His interest in efficiency and performance related issues led him to the study of hybrid marine propulsion systems. His vision of a market for large scale, high performance energy storage systems is now becoming a reality. In his spare time, Mr. Roddan helps his friends with their wooden boat restoration projects, and he plays blues and bluegrass slide guitar.

Cec Primeau, CFO

Cec brings to the management team a career of unique and successful senior management experience as a CFO, COO and CIO in a number of organizations. Most recently he has consulted to early stage and start up company for both strategic and business plans and implementation. His successes included fund raising of over $6m in a similar organization. Prior to that Cec was both COO and CFO for seven years for a technology based company, going from start up to successful sale of the company. In addition, during Cec’s leadership, the company was selected for multiple years as one of Canadian Business magazines 50 Best Companies to work for.

Cec was also a Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers during the late 90’s leading the Canadian practice in understanding and imparting to key clients the impact of the Internet on their businesses. His understanding of the impact of new technologies on traditional businesses was instrumental in changing how many companies adopted these emerging technologies.

Prior to his tenure at PwC, Cec served as a senior financial executive in a variety of industries. He graduated nationally at the top of his profession and has leveraged that knowledge together with a successful business career to contribute to the success of the companies he has worked with.

Cec’s MBA in International Management will make a difference to Corvus Energy as the company expands successfully both in North America and worldwide. He enjoys working hard, spending time with his family, especially his new granddaughter and making a difference in everything he undertakes.