Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> June 18, 2002

Ski Milburn – Vairex Corporation

SKI MUIR MILBURN, CEO, Director and Founder of VAIREX Corporation, is responsible for corporate strategy, technical direction, marketing and the overall management of VAIREX corporation. He is co-inventor of one of the patents held by the company and the author of several technical papers published by the Society of Automotive Engineers on advanced supercharging, fuel cell air systems, and electric vehicle systems architecture. His experience includes over 25 years of corporate management of high technology startups and growth companies related to energy efficiency and pollution reduction technologies. He has over 10 years of service on the Board of Directors of a number of public and privately held companies and non-profit institutions in this field. Mr. milburn was educated at the University of Colorado and graduated with a BS degree in Architecture has been a guest lecturer in the Architecture, Engineering and Business schools at the university and has given numerous seminars on design, innovation and entrepreneurship. Profile
TWST: Can we start out with a history and overview of VAIREX?

Mr. Milburn: We founded VAIREX 14 years ago to develop advanced

superchargers for diesel engines and we did some interesting early