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Executive Team

TSYI has assembled a group of highly experienced professionals to orchestrate and direct the activities of the company. A combined total of over 100 years of experience within the Team gives confidence in the ability of TSYI management to achieve great success. TSYI's management team possesses a broad combination of training, practical experience, management and entrepreneurship in energy, mining, physical and materials science and bulk materials handling.

Clayton D. Timothy, CEO
-- Clayton Timothy founded TSYI in 1996 as a clean energy technology company. For the past decade, Clayton has developed a solid foundation for TSYI. Prior to founding TSYI, he was Vice President of Industrial Management and Engineering, of Lehi, UT from 1994 to 1996. From 1990-1994, he served Executive Vice President of Environmental Technologies Group, Inc. (ETGP) of Lehi, Utah, which pioneered and implemented a patented technology, which agglomerated coal fines. The process became patented and qualified as a synthetic fuel, entitling it to Section 29 Investment Tax Credit status. ETGP was eventually renamed Covol Technologies, Inc. and more than two dozen plants were built to utilize the coal fines technology. Covol has since been purchased by Headwaters, Inc. Clayton has an Associate Degree in Mine Maintenance from the College of Eastern Utah. His career has focused around coal mining, initially as a miner, subsequently as a foreman and in more recent years as entrepreneur and executive in the development and implementation of technological innovations in the field.

George W. Ford, President
-- George W. Ford served as Principal Scientist/Vice President of Science and Technology for Headwaters, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE: HW), from June 1998 until joining Terra Systems, Inc., in May, 2005. He also served as Vice President of Research and Development of Headwaters from August 1993 through June 1998. Mr. Ford served as a director of Headwaters from August 1993 until resigning from the Board in February 1997 in favor of establishing an outside Board. From 1982 to 1993, Mr. Ford was employed at Ballard Medical Products, Inc., in research and development, principally in the biomedical field. He holds 27 national and international patents covering a wide variety of technologies. He has functioned as an independent consultant working on projects in computer programming, medical product device design and process polymer chemistry design for the energy industry. Mr. Ford is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Iron and Steel Society.

L. Kent Harmon, Vice President - Technical Development
-- Kent has a broad background in the theory and practice of materials science. Immediately prior to joining TSYI, he was President of Metredyne Imaging Services, Buena Park, CA, a private company. Metredyne created and marketed diagnostic systems that quantified the extent of physical impairment caused by work-related injuries. He was a founder of TSYI in 1996.

Mitchell J. Hart, P.E., Vice President, Operations of Terra Systems, Inc. and General Manager of Mountain Island Energy, LLC
-- Mitchell J. Hart served as Senior Project Manager for Monsanto Company from June, 1986 until joining Terra Systems in June 2005. During that time, he managed large capital projects such as the $600 million G-M Acquisition, the $120 million Carbon Technology Project and the $10 million Rock Springs Compliance Project. He directed the $20 million Blackfoot Bridge Mine Permitting Team. Mr. Hart provided raw material technical support to Monsanto's plants in Soda Springs, Idaho, and Rock Springs, Wyoming. Prior to joining Monsanto, Mr. Hart worked as a Senior Mining Engineer for Shell Oil Company, developing new mining projects along the Gulf Coast, the hills of eastern Ohio and the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. He also worked underground coal in central Illinois for Turris Coal Company. He is a registered Professional Engineer and holds Professional Miner designation. Mr. Hart was granted certification as a Glass Production Technologist, a Refractories Manufacturing Technologist, and a Ceramic Manufacturing Technologist from the American Ceramic Society. Mr. Hart is the President of the Association of Idaho Cities (which represents 176 member cities in Idaho), serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Southeast Idaho Council of Governments, and is in his third term as a member of the Soda Springs City Council. He previously served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Joint School District #150 in Soda Springs. He is a member of the Society of Mining Engineers, of AIME, and the National Mining Association.

Terra Systems, Inc. -- Board of Directors

• Clayton S. Timothy
• George W. Ford
• L. Kent Harmon
• Mitchell J. Hart

Frederick W. Buckman, Sr.
-- Mr. Buckman has extensive experience in leadership. Buckman was a co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Trans-Elect, Inc., the first independent owner and developer of electrical transmission systems in the U.S. >From 1994 to 1998, Buckman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of PacifiCorp. Prior to joining PacifiCorp, Buckman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Consumers Power Co., the utility subsidiary of CMS Energy. Buckman serves as a member of the board and Lead Director of StanCorp Financial Group (NYSE:SFG). He also serves as a member of the board of InfraSource Services, Inc. (NYSE:IFS) and MMC Energy (OTC BB:MMCN). A graduate of the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in science engineering, Buckman received his doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.

Reynold Roeder
-- Mr. Roeder brings over 25 years experience in operations, accounting, finance, investment banking and strategic planning with Portland Family of Funds, United Fund Advisors, LECTRIX LLC, PacifiCorp, and Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Roeder's management experience includes building several organizations from the ground up, structuring and negotiating large scale transactions and helping create industry standards in IRC Section 29 tax credits for synthetic fuels produced from coal. Mr. Roeder serves on the Board of Directors of Raser Technologies (NYSE Arca:RZ) and is the CEO of LECTRIX LLC, a developer of merchant electrical transmission lines. During his career, Mr. Roeder has held CPA licenses in the states of New York, California and Oregon. Mr. Roeder graduated with honors in Business Administration from Portland State University.

JR Key
-- Mr. Key has served in various senior positions during his career. He served as superintendent for Bankhead Mining Co., Jefferson Coal Co. and Cobb Coal Company in Alabama. He was General Manager of P.V. Mining Co. in Indiana. He later served as Vice President and General Manager of Bridger Coal Co. in Wyoming. From 1994 to 1997 he held the position of Director of Technical Services at InterWest Mining Company (a division of PacifiCorp) in Salt Lake City. Mr. Key became involved in the Section 29 projects with PacifiCorp in 1996. He presently oversees operations of the four synfuels plants for Synfuel Management, LLC. Mr. Key has over 35 years of coal industry experience.

Consultants to Terra Systems, Inc.

Tim Gwyther
-- Tim received a BS degree in Physics from the University of Utah. After a brief stint in the aerospace industry, he returned to the University of Utah where he completed course work for a PhD in Metallurgy with a minor in physics. From 1965 to 1978 he was employed by Intermountain Research and Energy, which was engaged in innovative aluminum processing and rose to Vice President of Sales and Operations. From 1978 to 1998 he was employed by Utah Power and Light (PacifiCorp) where he rose to Plant Manager at two power plants before retiring.

Jay R. Martin
-- Jay Martin brings 30 years of coal mine engineering experience to Terra Systems, Inc.. He retired from PacifiCorp's InterWest mining group where he performed various functions for the company. He spent 15 years as an industrial engineer performing cost analysis, budget, mine planning, production analysis and utilization and availability of equipment. He also worked with upper management to modify methods of operation to increase productivity and reduce costs at two underground and three surface operations. In addition, he performed safety audits of mine operations to identify unsafe work practices. He currently is a consultant and advisor to the Board of Directors of Terra Systems.

Company Profile

Terra Systems, Inc. is a development stage company focused on advanced, clean and renewable energy technology applications and projects. TSYI is engaged in the development and commercialization of it's patented pneumatic accelerator system technology, upgrading of specialty and waste carbon products, control of emissions via carbon re-burn technology, advanced clean energy development. Terra Systems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah with satellite offices in Price, Utah and Soda Springs, Idaho.

Terra Systems is a publicly traded corporation. TSYI