( Our Team )

Management

• Salvatore Scuderi (BS, JD), President, is responsible for the Scuderi Group’s overall operation and business strategy. He has more than 20 years of experience in program management, financial forecasting and planning, mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations and strategic planning, as well as engineering and manufacturing management. Prior to leading the Scuderi Group, Sal worked as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions, turnaround management, financial restructuring and business planning. He also worked closely with Carmelo Scuderi on the design of the Scuderi Engine.

  

• Nick Scuderi, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, directs the Scuderi Group’s marketing and sales strategy worldwide. He worked as an international sales manager for American Thermaflo, Inc., a refrigerant recovery systems manufacturer, for nearly 10 years before buying the company in 1997. After successfully transitioning the company into Industrial Tool Solutions, Nick sold the company to Swiss-based Refco Manufacturing, Ltd., where he continued working as Refco’s international sales manager until joining the Scuderi Group in 2006.

  

• Stephen Scuderi (BSME, BSEE, JD, MIP), Vice President and Patent Attorney, is responsible for the development of the Scuderi Group’s intellectual property portfolio and technical management of the Scuderi Engine project. He worked as a design engineer for more than 20 years before entering private practice as a patent attorney in 1998. Stephen has experience with patent and trademark prosecution strategies, reexamination filings, infringement and patentability options, as well as licensing and litigation. He has also assisted in the design of several aspects of the Scuderi Split-Cycle Engine, and is an inventor on several issued patents and patents pending.

  

• Lutz Deyerling (MBA), Vice President of European Operations and Corporate Strategy, directs the Scuderi Group’s European activities and global financial strategy. He has over 15 years of experience in the banking and consulting sectors of the automotive industry. Focusing on IPOs, venture capital funding and M&A, Lutz worked several years for Deutsche Bank, Bank Berlin, BHF Bank, Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young, was involved in more than 20 IPOs, and has successfully closed several M&A transactions. Prior to joining the Scuderi Group in 2006, he headed the corporate finance team of Ernst & Young’s automotive division.

  

• Michael Eisenbeis (MBA), Director of European Operations and Corporate Strategy, is responsible for liaising with the international investment banks and supports Scuderi Group's European licensing activities. He has over 10 years of experience in the banking and consulting technology & cleantech companies. Focusing on IPOs, equity research and hedge funds, Michael worked several years for Concord Corporate Finance, Bank Berlin, Dresdner Kleinwort and Fintuition and was involved in more than 15 IPOs. Prior to joining the Scuderi Group in 2007, he was Managing Director of London based FinTuition Ltd, a hedge fund & securities finance advisory company.

  

• Charles K. Forner (BSME), Director of Technology Development, is responsible for reviewing and recommending new innovations that can be utilized to further develop and improve the Scuderi Group’s current technology portfolio. Charles has over 25 years of mechanical engineering experience with such companies as the Hughes Aircraft Company, ThermaFlo Corporation, and the Scuderi Group. As owner of Atlantic Refrigerant Resources, Charles has over 8 years of business management, marketing, and sales experience. Charles is a member of the SAE International’s Lubricants and Powertrain Committee.

  

• Deryk Langlais, Director of Asian Operations, is responsible for overseeing Scuderi Group's Asian market strategy. With more than 15 years of experience in business development and marketing within the Asia Pacific marketplace, his seasoned leadership contributed to many successful enterprises in Japan. Deryk also has served as a long-standing consultant for several Japanese corporations, driving strong market visibility in international sales. Previous to his consulting career, Deryk was vice president of DAX Transportation company, and was owner of Fox 4 Japan. He attended Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany, and received his BA in Communication from University of Massachusetts.

  

• Dennis Rader (BCE, ScM, PhD), Vice President of Licensing, is responsible for the Scuderi Group’s intellectual property licensing operations and strategy. He founded Rader Technology Licensing, a consulting firm specializing in technology licensing, transfer, valuation and IP management strategy serving clients such as Mobil Oil Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Pitney Bowes, GreatPoint Energy and Alcatel-Lucent. Dr. Rader was Mobil Oil Corporation’s licensing executive responsible for licensing the company’s worldwide exploration and production technologies. In earlier affiliations, he served in executive and management positions at Schlumberger and other petroleum industry companies. As professor of engineering and applied science at Yale University, Dr. Rader taught graduate and undergraduate courses in engineering and technology management.

  

• Bill Wrinn, Director of Marketing/Communications, is responsible for the strategic planning and direction of the Scuderi Group’s global marketing program. He has a wide range of media communications, marketing and publishing experience, spanning more than 20 years. A former news, government and education reporter, he has worked in public relations for the past 10 years, with a focus on technology, consumer and academic industries. For three years prior to joining the Scuderi Group in May 2008, Bill directed the Scuderi Group’s global public relations account at Topaz Partners, where his team won the 2008 Bell Ringer Award for best business-to-business PR campaign.