Dr. Deller joined ClearSign Technologies as our President in February 2019, transitioned to Chief Executive Officer on April 1, 2019 and was appointed as a director on February 13, 2020.  Dr. Deller began his career at Hamworthy Combustion while also completing his Ph.D.  In 1996, Dr. Deller joined Callidus, where he was employed in Project Engineering and Sales, and over the course of ten years advanced to serve as Chief Combustion Engineer and Manager of Burner Order Execution before being promoted to oversee Callidus’ entire burner business.  From 2010 until he left Callidus, following the acquisition of Callidus by Honeywell, Dr. Deller served as General Manager with full profit and loss accountability for the Honeywell UOP Callidus burner business worldwide.  During that time, he led his team in developing new international markets, including developing a leading market position in China.  From May 2018 until he joined the Company, Dr. Deller served as the interim Global Operations Director for the entire Honeywell International UOP Callidus business, which includes flares and thermal oxidizers in addition to burners.  Dr. Deller provides technical and operational expertise to our board which is instrumental in ClearSign Technologies achieving our goals of proving commercial viability of our products, generating interest from end users and original equipment manufacturers and licensing our technology.