The Company’s founders, Board of Directors, and Management Team comprise a wealth of expertise and experience in renewable and electrical energy, financial and business management and corporate governance. With a history of accomplishments and successes at senior corporate levels in energy, finance and other fields, the team at the helm of Atlantic Wind & Solar are aggressively focused on establishing the Company at the forefront of technology-led growth in the dynamic Renewable Energy industry.

Venecia Gafter - President and Director,

To Atlantic Wind and Solar Ms. Gafter brings years of international business and sales experience primarily in Central and South America.

After acquiring her degree in Business Administration, with emphasis on International business Ms Gafter founded Center Negocios SA. An Ecuador based company specializing in the sales and distribution of computer hardware and networking solutions.

After the sale of Center Negocios SA she headed International sales, Latin America for Trendware, a manufacturer and distributor of networking solutions.

After a successful stint at Trendware, she then dedicated her time to researching new and existing renewable energy methods to deploy in the Americas.

Gilles A. Trahan - Chairman of the Board

As Chairman, Mr. Trahan brings a wealth of experience in public markets, capital formation and business acumen. His experience has primarily evolved around investment banking practices. He was involved in real estate as a developer of commercial properties beginning in 1991, and subsequently owned and operated a hotel resort in the Caribbean. Mr. Trahan has served as President and CEO of Lexton Fuller Corp, an investment Banking firm in Toronto, Canada where his responsibilities included the structuring of corporate financing, mergers, and acquisitions. He was instrumental in the creation of Symphony Telecom, Inc. Symphony Telecom under his leadership grew from no revenues to over $16 million annually and created a market capitalization of over 500 million in a few short years.

Over a 5 year period, ending in 2007, he had served in senior officer positions including President and CEO of Geneva Bancorp Inc., an international financial consulting and investment banking company. During his years at Geneva Bancorp, Mr. Trahan advised numerous private and public companies on strategic acquisitions and financing, and assisted numerous client-companies in expanding their shareholder base. Mr. Trahan's extensive contact base spans the globe both personally and institutionally. Mr. Trahan will fulfill a comprehensive, hands-on role in the direction and corporate governance of Atlantic Wind and Solar as it pursues its goal of becoming a well managed growth company in its chosen fields of endeavor. His depth of experience in business development, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions in the public company arena are expected to prove invaluable to MSE as it progresses towards its corporate goals of sustained growth and enhancement of shareholder value.

Martin W. Baldwin – Director, CFO, Treasurer

To his position on the Board of Atlantic Wind and Solar Mr. Martin Baldwin, BSc, BA, BEd, MBA, brings experience and capability in business and finance gained through fifteen years of successful employment in banking and finance globally at senior management levels.

From 1993 to 2002 Martin worked as a trader/trading director for The Bank of Nova Scotia. He traded interest rate products for various currencies in the bank’s operations in Toronto, Singapore, New York, and London as well as served a brief stint in Jakarta with an affiliate bank during the Indonesian currency crisis. In 2002 he accepted the challenge of setting up Scotiabank’s new Caribbean Treasury Unit in Nassau, Bahamas where he remained until joining Atlantic Wind and Solar in 2008. Martin was a teacher for the US Army in Europe and the Middle East. He also lived and worked in Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. His broad educational background, including bachelors’ degrees in Computer Science, English Literature and Education, plus a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and International Business, means he brings a unique perspective to most problems and opportunities.

Thomas W. Cleland - Chief Technology Officer, CTO

On Joining Atlantic Wind and Solar Mr. Thomas W. Cleland, B.Sc. Eng, LE, ET, EET, brings a coveted balance of formal education, technical expertise and field experience combined with an overarching spirit of entrepreneurship.

After a studying towards a degree in Natural Sciences and Electrical Engineering at McMaster University Hamilton Ontario, there was a brief 15 year dalliance in the private sector where some of his business related achievements are noted below, he then continued on to the degree program in Electronics Engineering at DeVry, Toronto / DeVry University, Arizona, where as honor graduate and Valedictorian, he was offered the position of Dean of Physics, Mathematics and Robotics with the DeVry University group (Toronto) but... ultimately unable to tame his entrepreneurial spirit, opted to once again return to the private sector, thankfully for us - choosing the practical over the theoretical - with an unwavering commitment to "make a difference where you can" in the world around us.

This is in addition to being a Canadian Inter-provincially Licensed Industrial Electrician (LE), Certified Electronics Technician (ET), and Certified Electronics Engineering Technologist (EET). He has published several academic and practical papers on energy conversion, storage and electronics-interface applications, also with several innovative designs in High speed Electrical Process & Control being featured in various publications as “state of the art” .

In his 30+ years in Canadian leading-edge high-tech he has created and helped create companies, ground-breaking business management software, successful national sales and service programs, and several successful corporate merger/acquisitions.

Thomas is currently involved heavily with the majority privately owned Hybridyne group, holders and co-holders of several patents and patents pending relating to proprietary energy conversion-inversion, power-management, and interface technologies in the renewable energy and energy conversion arena.  Thomas serves as President, CEO & Director of Technical Marketing for Hybridyne Power Systems Canada (HPSC), the design, engineering and project execution group that leads the Hybridyne Group of Companies.  HPSC was assembled to focus on greenhouse gas reduction, peak energy shaving and renewable energy production in the industrial commercial sector, but broadened their scope in 2006/7 to include utility scale Renewable Energy applications called "Energy Parks" as well. He is also President & CEO of Hybridyne Power Generation Corp. plus President & CEO of Hybridyne Power Electronics Inc. and CEO of Hybridyne RHS Inc. among other titles and activities. The Hybridyne companies are quickly becoming recognized as a rapidly expanding group with unique workable solutions in Hybrid Renewable Energy.

Charles Mazzacato - VP Atlantic Solar Division

Charles Mazzacato has over 30 years of experience in commercial and industrial power systems, engineering, sales, marketing and business development.

From 2003 to 2009 he served as VP, Business Development for a variety of companies focusing on delivering infrastructure for mission critical data centers as well as power system components aimed at improving energy efficiency in industrial and commercial applications.

From 1996 to 2003, he held a variety of senior executive positions in sales and marketing with Powerware Inc. and also served as chairman of Powerware's global marketing council, providing leadership and strategic direction for its $750 million sales, marketing and product development efforts.

Prior to 1996 Charles served as the national sales manager for the Power Quality of Schneider Electric and as Canadian National Sales Manager for Emerson Electric.

Relevant Experience

75 years combined experience in Technical design and implementation of Solid State power quality, Energy management & Electrical Storage equipment.

55 years combined experience in Electrical and Electronic Design & implementation of Numerous Large scale Data Computing Centers.

30 years combined experience Design and implementation of numerous Medium Voltage Electrical Sub Stations.

40 years combined experience in Design and implementation of systems.