December 2008 - Gulf Coast Energy, Inc. announces the election of Mr. Stanley R. Pearson to their Board of Directors. 

Stanley R. Pearson is a chemical engineer, inventor, and patent holder and is the inventor and developer of the biomass gasification technology utilized by Gulf Coast Energy.  He is the founder and driving force behind his company Pearson BioEnergy/Pearson Technology and has assembled a world class staff to promote his world class technology that is capable of solving our nation’s energy problems.  Mr. Pearson worked for over 30 years for Dow Chemical Company where he quickly rose up the ranks in manufacturing and R&D.  His responsibilities at Dow gradually moved in the direction of power generation and energy and culminated in being assigned responsibility to build a coal gasification plant in Louisiana – a seven year project.  Subsequently, Mr. Pearson took early retirement, formed Pearson BioEnergy/Pearson Technology, and since 1990 has focused all of his energy and efforts into the development and patenting of the world’s most efficient biomass (and other material including coal and MSW) gasification process into liquid fuels including ethanol but more significantly synthetic gasoline and synthetic diesel as well where he has focused his most recent attention, among others.  Mr. Pearson’s technology is the most advanced, most efficient, and most robust available in the alternative fuels market place.  He has trialed dozens of feedstocks and has advanced energy and heat efficiency more than any other technology available.  He has obtained more than ten patents and has several more pending, during the course of development.  He has been recognized by several government and academic organizations as having developed the best process in alternative fuels and representing a substantial piece of the collective energy solution.  Mr. Pearson graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Chemical Engineering and was a member of the Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity.