Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> October 14, 2002
KEVIN C. MADDOX is Chief Financial Officer of North American
Technologies Group, Inc. He is President and CEO of Avalanche Resources,
Ltd., the company's largest common shareholder. He brings 10 years'
experience in venture capital, nine years' experience in securities
brokerage and investment management, and 14 years' experience in public
accounting, including positions with KPMG Peat Marwick and Deloitte and
Touche CPA firms, as well as the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Maddox is
a CPA, CFP and Registered Investment Advisor. He has served on many
Boards of Directors and is currently a Director of Global Photonic
Energy Corporation, Inc., and Sawtooth, Inc. Mr. Maddox earned a BBA in
Accounting from the University of Texas. Profile
HENRY W. SULLIVAN has been President and Chief Executive Officer of
North American Technologies Group, Inc., since January 1999. Dr.
Sullivan assumed this position after serving in a variety of executive
roles since July 1996. Prior to joining the company, Dr. Sullivan was
employed by Huntsman Chemical Corporation and Shell Oil Company, where
he spent 26 years in various senior management roles. In 1965, Dr.
Sullivan joined Shell Oil Company, designing refineries and
petrochemical plants at Shell's New York headquarters. He was later
given a number of successively more important field positions with
various Shell plants and in 1978 became the Business Center Manager for
Hydrocarbon Utilization for all six major refinery complexes in the
United States. From 1980 to 1988 Dr. Sullivan was promoted a number of
times to increasingly responsible positions with Shell. In 1988, Dr.
Sullivan joined Huntsman Petrochemical Corporation as President and in
1989 became Vice Chairman of Huntsman Chemical Corporation, the parent
company and the nation's largest private chemical company. Dr. Sullivan
has served as Chairman and Director of a number of companies and
organizations in manufacturing and polymer technology, including
Huntsman Chemical and the Executive Committee of the Society of the
Plastics Industry. He currently serves as a Director of Sarkeys Energy
Center at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Sullivan has a Bachelor's
degree in Chemical Engineering from Cooper Union and completed Master's
and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from New York University in
1965. Profile
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