Michael Zeitlin, Chief Executive Officer

Michael J. Zeitlin has over 25 years experience in scientific and business computing. Michael began his career at Texaco as a Senior Scientist in 1980 and became a Texaco Fellow, Texaco’s highest technical honor, in 1997. He is a recognized leader in visualization technology worldwide with presentations on the History Channel, various news outlets in print and video. Michael created the oil industry’s first commercial 3D visualization center. He received the Carnegie Mellon and American Management Institute Award for Innovation in Information Technology in 1998. In 1999 his work was honored with a permanent position in the Archives of the Smithsonian Institution. He founded Magic Earth, LLC. in 2000, and as its Chairman and CEO, grew operations from inception to profitability in three months. Magic Earth became a powerhouse in the industry gaining market share, employees and revenue rapidly with sales on three continents. Magic Earth was acquired by Halliburton that same year for $100 million. He holds a B.Sc. in Earth and Space Sciences and an M.Sc. in Marine Environmental Science from the State University of New York at StonyBrook and was awarded its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at StonyBrook and is a past Director in Anglo-Suisse, LLC an independent oil and gas company.

Sean Spicer, Chief Technology Officer

Sean Spicer has over 10 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing high-performance computing and computer graphics software technology systems. Sean started his career at Silicon Graphics developing some of the world's most advanced Volume-Visualization and Interpretation tool kits; enabling Biomedical, Aerospace, and Geophysical applications to handle data sets of massive scale. He has been awarded numerous US and international patents in the field of computer graphics and has held posts with ACM SIGGRAPH and the IEEE Subcommittee on Visualization and Parallel Graphics. Immediately prior to joining Aqumin, Sean spent seven years with Magic-Earth/Halliburton in various technology and management leadership positions. He left the company as Sr. Mergers & Acquisitions Manager at Halliburton's Landmark Division, where he led the company's software technology corporate development efforts. Sean holds a BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Duke University, an MS in Mechanical Engineering (Biomechanics) from Stanford University, and an MBA in Finance and General Management from the Tulane University Freeman School of Business.

Andrew Giovinazzi, Executive Vice President - Business Development

Andrew Giovinazzi started his career in the financial markets after graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Economics in 1989. On the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange he graduated from floor clerk to exchange member in a little over a year. For the next 15 years (from 1991-2006) he was a member of both the Pacific Exchange (for 10 years) and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (for 6 years) where he actively made markets and traded in both equity and index option classes. During that period he never had a down year. At the same time Andrew started and ran the Designated Primary Market Marker post for Group One, ltd. on the floor of the CBOE where it became one of the highest grossing posts for the company in 1992 and 1993. While in Chicago and San Francisco, Andrew was instrumental in creating and managing a training program that allowed Group One, ltd to dramatically increase their trader count over an eight year period. He left Group One, ltd. to co-found Henry Capital Management in 2001.

Miles D. Harper III, Chief Financial Officer

Miles D. Harper III is a certified public accountant. He received a BBA from Baylor University in 1985 and was certified in 1987. His experience includes all phases of financial and tax services including preparation and review of financial statements, analysis of management strategies, individual, business and estate tax planning and valuation, and litigation support. In 1998 he joined Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches, as a tax manager and was admitted as a partner in 2001. Prior to that, Miles worked for the public accounting firm of Price Waterhouse for five years and was managing partner of a local Houston firm for eight years. Miles serves as Chairman Bridgeway Mutual Funds, Director Calvert Mutual Funds, Board Member Depelchin Children's Center, Elder Grace Presbyterian Church, and Director Grace School.

RoseAnn Byers, Senior Vice President - Director of Operations

RoseAnn Carr Byers has over 20 years experience in Business Administration where she helped both large and small companies in the Oil and Gas, Aerospace and Waste industries during start-up of operations overseeing HR, accounting, IT and investor relations. Five of those years were with the international oil company, Anglo-Suisse. For the last 10 years she has been in the training industry. She grew the average enrollment from 0 to 300 in just seven months as the School Director for StaffMark Technology Training Center generating over $1,000,000 in sales revenues in the first year As School Director of the Burnett Training Center from 2001 to 2007 she grew enrollments and expanded course offerings to meet client needs, taking it from 15th to the 6th largest computer training company in Houston. RoseAnn provided curriculum development and facilitation of soft skills and technical training for her clients. She has developed customer training programs for clients such as Texas Women's University, Pennzoil, Quaker State, Baker Botts, Technip USA, TXU Energy and NCI Building Systems. In 2007 she was Training Manager for Burnett Staffing. As Director of Operations at Aqumin she is the face of Aqumin and the one closest to our customers.

Lawrence E. Wilson, General Counsel

Lawrence Wilson's legal career spans 30 years, beginning with his first experience in securities regulation and acquisitions in 1975. Mr. Wilson joined Atwood Oceanics, Inc. as a staff attorney with primary responsibility for securities registration and reporting compliance and negotiation of international drilling contracts. In 1979, Mr. Wilson created the law department for Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. Over the next 20 years, Stewart & Stevenson grew to a $1.2 billion company. Mr. Wilson was named to positions of increasing responsibility, ultimately becoming the company's first Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, a member of the core executive team and was responsible for all legal aspects of Stewart & Stevenson. In 2001, Mr. Wilson started a private practice to utilize his vast experience as a general counsel of public companies. He currently focuses on start-up companies in corporate, securities, and transactional matters.

 

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