New York Energy & Environmental Funders

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Dickstein Shapiro LLP

To reduce the organic waste fraction of municipal solid waste that clogs our landfills and produces greenhouse gasses, there is a race to develop new technologies that create value from what has previously generated cost and atmospheric deterioration. Such development will facilitate the advancement of both our environmental well-being and our energy security objectives of this decade and those to come.

Control & Power Systems, Inc., a turnkey engineering/controls/fabrication firm, with a successful 30-year track record in the pharmaceutical, biofuels, specialty chemical, wastewater, and material handling industries, decided to attack this problem head on. It established Renewable BioSystems, LLC of Fairfield, NJ, an independent entity, which licensed the exclusive North American rights to market and manufacture a proprietary oil extraction technology. The oil extraction machine was originally developed in England, and RBL is manufacturing all North American based machines in the U.S. The technology combines specially designed pre-processing technology which produces a macerated slurry, with state of the art precision controlled heating process and a specially designed centrifuge to separate the waste stream into its major components: oil, water and solid. A Programmable Logic Controller uses sensors within the machine to maintain the product quality and efficiency of operation. A patent application has been submitted to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and individual patent filings were made in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Mexico in Spring 2009. It is expected that the machine will receive patent pending status in those countries.

The equipment processes up to 15 metric tons per hour of organic waste (e.g. the food residual portion of municipal solid waste, waste from food factories and supermarkets, offal from livestock processors, fish residuals, etc.), and converts varying percentages of this waste into oil that can be then be further processed into biodiesel. The remaining water and biosolids can be composted and used for fertilizer, further treated or disposed of.

And of course this process saves client companies and municipalities the growing expense of having to dispose of the organic waste matter in other, less environmentally friendly, ways. RBL's primary target customer segments are livestock processors, food manufacturers, waste haulers, composters, and biofuel production facilities. For a wide variety of participants within those sectors, the oil extraction technology provides the means to create value from waste.

RBL's business model is built upon multiple revenue streams: the sale of oil extraction machines, commissions for arranging for the sale of extracted oil, sale of extracted oil from machines placed at customer sites on lease, a processing royalty and maintenance contracts.

The Company is raising capital to build a demonstration extraction machine, co-locate that machine with a user in a target sector, and use that installation to advance the expansion of customer development in multiple industries and applications. In addition, a portion of the capital raised will be used to advance the Company's product development and intellectual property priorities focused on improving the preprocess technology to increase the expected oil yield from the waste stream in the extraction process.

Company Presenters: Mr. Peter Behrle, CEO and Mr. Martin Zalite, President and CTO, will describe Renewable BioSystem's licensed technology, business strategy and progress.

Sector Expert: Michael P. Manna, Managing Director, Organic Recycling Solutions, LLC, will place the technology in context and discuss the overall market opportunities.

Date: Friday, June 12, 2009
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am
Place: Dickstein Shapiro LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas, 47th Floor
(between 45th and 46th Streets on the West side of Sixth Avenue)

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Agenda:
8:00 to 8:20 – Networking with Members
8:30 to 9:00 – Presentation by Mr. Peter Behrle, CEO and Mr. Martin Zalite, President and CTO, Renewable BioSystems LLC
9:00 to 9:30 – Company presentation by Sector Expert: Michael P. Manna, Managing Director, Organic Recycling Solutions, LLC
9:30 to 10:00 – Discussion and Networking

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you at the next NY Funders meeting.

If you have any questions about registration or need more information about the program, please contact Gelvin Stevenson at gelvin@optonline.net.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

Peter J. Behrle, CEO, Renewable BioSystems, LLC, has spent the last 30 years leading sales and marketing efforts for a variety of corporate and entrepreneurial situations. For the last five years, Mr. Behrle has provided business development expertise to renewable energy companies, in areas including technology development and procurement, project management, feedstock procurement, joint venture development, capital structuring and government relations. Clients have included BioEnergy of America, Viridia Energy, CPS, Gerson Lehrman Group, Savitr Capital, Ridge Dominicano, Pure Energy, PennDel Biodiesel, and Quests Biofuels.

He spent 15 years with The Prudential Insurance Company of America in various sales and marketing jobs, with his last assignment being VP, Sales and Marketing for Prudential's Western Regional Group Operations in Los Angeles, a $2 billion division. For 15 years following his career at Prudential, Mr. Behrle owned The Behrle Group, a $50 million firm specializing in the interior design and supply of furnishings of offices, country clubs and large homes. Mr. Behrle has a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.

Martin Zalite, President and Chief Technology Officer, Renewable BioSystems, LLC, has worked in the design, engineering development and marketing of major process and automation systems in a variety of process oriented industries since 1979. Petrochemical manufacturing equipment design and application, printing industry automation and process control and automation are major areas of Mr. Zalite's expertise.

After graduating from The Newark College and Engineering (BSME) in 1979, he began his career at Exxon Chemical Company as a machinery specialist. Following his position at Exxon, Mr. Zalite grew his career at Baldwin Technology Company and Printex Products Corporation, which culminated with Mr. Zalite taking ownership of the Company and further developing it as Graftex Systems, Inc. As electronic forms of communication began to compete with printing, Mr. Zalite pursued opportunities in the process control industry at Control & Power Systems, Inc., where he served as Operations Manager, working with a wide variety of customer industries, most notably the fresh kill poultry and biodiesel industries.

Michael P. Manna, Managing Director, Organic Recycling Solutions, LLC, has worked the last 20 years developing programs designed to reduce waste at its source. He spent many years developing and running an award winning recycling company in New York City known as Rainbow Recycling. He created on site institutional recycling programs for numerous Hospitals, Nursing Homes and commercial facilities.

As CEO of Woodhue, Ltd. a compost facility in Wrightstown, NJ, he worked with various hauling companies to develop a collection infrastructure, he created the largest commercial source separated food waste collection program in the State of New Jersey and at the time, the largest in the country. He contracted with over 125 supermarket chain stores along with some the largest commercial food processing plants in New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, and Connecticut for the removal and diversion of pre-consumer food residuals. This program diverted and composted over 40,000 tons of food residual and 15,000 tons of carbon based material per year.

Currently he is a consultant for a number of major domestic and international corporations, education systems, health care facilities and food related industries developing and implementing comprehensive recycling programs including organic waste diversion systems. He has developed a complete diversion training program along with compliance monitoring component.

Advisory Board
Mark Austin, Chandler-Reed
John Cusack, Gifford Park Associates
Ira Rubenstein, CEEP, Inc.
Gelvin Stevenson, Ph.D., CEEP, Inc.

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Formed in October 2001, New York Energy & Environmental Funders (NYE&EF) is a joint service of Investors Circle, the Energy & Environmental Capital Network (ECN), the Environmental Business Association of New York State, Inc. (EBA/NYS) and Investors Circle. NYE&EF provides networking, information, and other services to investors interested in energy and environmental companies. NYE&EF activities are produced by the Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc. (CEEP) in furtherance of its educational mission.

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