Stephen F. Johnson
Director, President of American Clean Coal Fuels

Mr. Johnson has been an outspoken proponent of the environmentally responsible development of a domestic synthetic fuels industry. Prior to his co-founding of ACCF, through Stonebridge Asset Management, the hedge fund company he owned and operated, Mr. Johnson acted for a time as the only financial analyst publicly covering domestic US FT technology and the early stages of development of a domestic US Coal To Liquids industry.
 
Using his own unique investment philosophy, his hedge fund achieved excellent returns, his strategy yielding a return of 327.84% net of fees between the start of 2002 and the end of 2006 (5 years), or 33.73% annualized, dramatically out-performing the market averages, and all applicable benchmark indexes.
 
Applying the industry knowledge and contacts acquired through his investment research, he then went on to spearhead the development of American Clean Coal Fuels, growing it from bare concept to become one of the country's leading synthetic fuels project development companies.
 
He possesses a strong knowledge of a diverse array of fields including finance, oil and energy markets, gasification and Fischer Tropsch process technologies, general alternative fuels processes and technologies.
 
Mr. Johnson was homeschooled, and began taking college courses at age 14. His initial focus was on computers, but it shifted to business and finance on the beginning of his study of the stock market. He graduated from Portland State University where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration: Finance at age 20, the university's youngest graduating student that term. 
 
In addition to his focus within the synthetic fuels space, Mr. Johnson has strong interests in the area of sustainability, having been involved early in the grassroots community effort Portland Peak Oil Awareness, which resulted in the Portland City Council appointing a peak oil taskforce and study group to aid and inform local and regional planning. That task force's work succeeded in motivating the city council to adopt a resolution to cut the Portland metro area's oil consumption dramatically. Mr. Johnson has also assisted in capital raising and led buy-side Due Diligence efforts in the early financing rounds for Lightfleet, a Camas Washington based company developing optical interconnect technologies for dense computer server environments, leading to major efficiency gains and reduction of power use in computer server farms.  

Dr. N. Samuel Saliba
Chief Operations officer, Director of Technology

Dr. Saliba has had a successful and extensive professional career at the senior executive level in the chemical process industry, especially with BASF AG and SASOL Limited. Dr Saliba is an accomplished executive with a distinguished career directing worldwide operations, R&D, product application, manufacturing processes, strategic raw materials sourcing, and marketing strategy. Industry accomplishments include receiving the prestigious Golden Vase and Golden Medal from the International Plastic Federation for extraordinary research and application in the field of unsaturated polyester resins and their applications throughout the world.

Dr. Saliba's hands-on development and management-level experience with the world's only existing commercial CTL plant, and extensive top executive level experience in the chemical process industry makes him and ideally suited to direct and support the technical development and implementation of ACCF’s projects.

Dr. Saliba has earned a Doctor of Science in Organic, Inorganic, Physical Chemistry and Mineralogy and an MBA.

He is fluent in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese, and Afrikaans