Company - Board of Directors
Robert M. Worsley
Chairman & CEO of Renegy Holdings, Inc.
Robert (“Bob”) M. Worsley has served as our chairman and CEO since since October 1, 2007. Mr. Worsley is also the founder and owner of NZ Legacy, LLC, an Arizona land and mineral company. Prior to founding NZ Legacy in March 2002, Mr. Worsley was the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of SkyMall, Inc., which he founded in 1989, until his retirement in 2003. During his tenure at SkyMall, Mr. Worsley was successful in leading the Company through a $16 million IPO in 1996 and a $70 million sale to Newscorp's Gemstar affiliate in 2001, and growing the business to become the largest in-flight catalog company in the United States with over $85 million in annual revenues. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Worsley was a principal of ExecuShare, Inc., an executive services firm that provided time-shared financial executives for small companies. From 1980 to 1985, Mr.Worsley was an accountant with PriceWaterhouse, a public accounting firm, where he most recently held the position of Audit Manager. Mr. Worsley has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University. Mr. Worsley was a Certified Public Accountant for over twenty years.
Ricardo B. Levy, Ph.D.
Lead Director
Retired Founder, President & CEO of Catalytica, Inc. and former Chairman of the Board of Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc.
Ricardo Levy has served on our board of directors since June 2007. Previously, Dr. Levy served as chairman of the board of Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc. from December 2000 through September 2007. In addition to his role as chairman, Dr. Levy also served as interim president and CEO of Catalytica Energy Systems from June through December 2002, having previously served as president and CEO of the former parent company Catalytica, Inc. Dr. Levy founded Catalytica, Inc. in 1974, serving as chief operating officer until 1991 and then as president and chief executive officer until December 2000, when Catalytica, Inc. and its subsidiary Catalytica Pharmaceuticals Inc. were sold to DSM N.V concurrent with the spin-off of Catalytica Energy Systems. Before founding Catalytica, Inc., Dr. Levy was a founding member of Exxon's chemical physics research team. Dr. Levy currently serves on the board of directors of public companies Accelrys, Inc. (formerly known as Pharmacopeia, Inc.) and StemCells, Inc. He has an M.S. from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University and is an alumnus of Harvard University's Executive Management Program.
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