INVESTOR CENTER Management

Ralph E. Bailey
Executive Chairman
Ralph E. Bailey is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Conoco, Inc. and retired Vice Chairman of the Board of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont). Mr. Bailey is currently Chairman of American Bailey Corporation, a privately owned investment company, and Executive Chairman of Fuel Tech.

His directorships include Fuel Tech, Great Northern Properties Management Corporation, and the Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan. Past directorships include J.P. Morgan, General Signal Corporation, IC Industries, Abex Corporation, DuPont, The Williams Companies, Rowan Companies, Inc., Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc., and the National Forest Foundation. He was former Chairman of the National Petroleum Council and the American Mining Congress.

John F. Norris Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
John F. Norris Jr. attended North Carolina State University on a football scholarship and graduated with a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1971. After serving 10 years as an officer and fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, he joined Duke Power Company in 1982 as an Assistant Engineer, progressing to Engineering Manager by 1988. He became President and CEO of Duke Engineering & Services in 1989 and held this position until 1998 when he was named Senior Vice President of Duke Energy Corporation and Chairman and CEO of Duke Energy Global Asset Development. In 1999 Mr. Norris left Duke Energy to become President and COO of the American Bureau of Shipping Group before joining American Electric Power (AEP) as Senior Vice President, Operations and Technical Services, which included responsibility for the operation of all of AEP’s non-nuclear wholesale assets. Mr. Norris left AEP in 2003 to become a consultant to companies in energy-related industries, including Fuel Tech, where he became an Executive Consultant in April 2005 and was named President and CEO in February 2006.

Mr. Norris has served on the Board of Directors of a number of companies and not-for-profit organizations, including his current role on the Board of Advisors to the College of Engineering and the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University. Mr. Norris is a registered professional engineer in Ohio, North Carolina and Alabama. He is also a member of the American Nuclear Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the National Society of Professional Engineers.

John P. Graham
Senior Vice President; Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Mr. Graham joined Fuel Tech in April 2008 as Senior Vice President and was named Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer in June 2008. Prior to joining Fuel Tech Mr. Graham served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hub International Limited, a $500 million North American insurance brokerage. From 2002 through 2006 he was Senior Vice President of Finance, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary of Career Education Corporation. Prior positions include Vice President of Investor Relations and Financial Reporting for Newell Rubbermaid, Manager of Financial Planning at Kraft General Foods and an Audit Supervisor with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in Chicago.

Mr. Graham graduated with a B.S. degree in Accounting from Indiana University in Bloomington and received his Masters of Business Administration degree from DePaul University in Chicago. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant.

Vincent M. Albanese
Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Mr. Albanese assumed the position of Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs in February 2007. In this capacity, Mr. Albanese represents Fuel Tech for liaison with federal, state and regional environmental agencies. Previously, Mr. Albanese was Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Advanced Technology since 2006, Senior Vice President, Air Pollution Control since 2000, Vice President, Air Pollution Control since 1998, and Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Nalco Fuel Tech since 1990.

Mr. Albanese was a member of EPA's Acid Rain Advisory Committee, and currently serves as a Managing Director and Treasurer of the Institute of Clean Air Companies, while also serving as chairman of its NOx Division. He is a member of the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners, serving on its Environmental Committee. Mr. Albanese received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Manhattan College in 1970 and his M.S. in Physical Chemistry from Villanova in 1973.

Stephen P. Brady
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Mr. Brady was raised in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Miami University, where he graduated with an engineering degree in 1978. He also attended the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Brady spent two years with Johnson & Johnson and 18 years with Nalco Chemical Company in a variety of sales and management positions, primarily focused on the electric utility, steel, paper and refining industries. Among his industry experiences were managing growth in water treatment applications and the early introduction of fuel treatment technologies. Mr. Brady joined Fuel Tech in 1998 as Vice President, FUEL CHEM^®. He was promoted to Senior Vice President, FUEL CHEM in 2002 and to Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing in April 2006.

M. Linda Lin
Senior Vice President, China/Pacific Rim
Dr. Lin was promoted to Vice President in 2006 and to Senior Vice President, China/Pacific Rim in 2008. She has been with Fuel Tech since the inception of Nalco Fuel Tech in 1990 where she held a dual-duty position of Marketing Manager for Asia and Research Manager. Prior to that, Dr. Lin was at Nalco Company for 28 years.

Born in Nanjing, P.R. China, Dr. Lin grew up in Taiwan where she graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the top-notch Taiwan University. She continued graduate studies and earned a Ph.D. degree in Catalysis from Texas A&M University.

With over two dozen Fuel Tech air pollution control (APC) systems sold and operated in Taiwan and Republic of Korea, Dr. Lin has been a successful marketer of Fuel Tech’s APC products in Asia. Those include the first commercial NOxOUT^® SNCR systems for cement kilns and NOxOUT SCR^® systems for diesel engines. She has been instrumental in setting up the region’s sales infrastructure as well as building relationships with government and industrial agencies, engineering firms and a large customer base. She is accredited to placing Fuel Tech in an enviable leading position in China’s NOx emissions reduction and energy savings TIFI^® markets. Dr. Lin’s talents also include the development of many significant products such as TIFI^®’s chemical product 8263/8263+. She is the inventor or co-inventor of over twenty U.S. patents and approximately one hundred publications in water and air pollution control. She was an Adjunct Professor in the MBA curriculum at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) Stewart Business School in Chicago.

Michael P. Maley
Senior Vice President, International Business Development and Project Execution
Michael P. Maley has 25 years of experience developing, designing, constructing and operating power generation facilities. He has developed or acquired more than $5 billion of generating assets currently in operation and has led teams to the successful execution of contracts exceeding $30 billion. Mr. Maley began his career at Sargent & Lundy LLC, a global engineering services provider for the electric power industry, where he supervised the design and construction of piping systems for numerous power plants. Mr. Maley also worked for Cogentrix Energy Inc., a pioneer in the coal-fired independent power industry, where he was responsible for business development in India and elsewhere in Asia, having made some 30 business trips to that region. Prior to joining Fuel Tech, Mr. Maley was President and Chief Operating Officer of Alliant Energy Generation, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy. In that capacity, he was responsible for all business activities, including marketing, sales, mergers and acquisitions, development, construction, operations, asset management, strategic planning, engineering and overall financial performance. Mr. Maley joined Fuel Tech in April 2006 as Senior Vice President, International Business Development and Project Execution, where he is responsible for all sales and marketing activities outside the United States as well as the design, construction and operation of all Fuel Tech installations worldwide.

Mr. Maley holds a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa, an M.S. Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and a Master of Engineering Management Degree from Northwestern University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in several states.

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