Woodland Biofuels Inc. has been successful in attracting a strong Board of Directors with extensive experience in business and corporate governance.

Gary Van Nest, Chairman
Thomas I. Allen QC, Director
Eric Cunningham, Director
David Hennigar, Director
Larry J. Melnichuk, Director
Greg A. Nuttall, Director

N. Gary Van Nest, Chairman
In addition to his role at Woodland, Mr. Van Nest is President of Sinalta Investments Ltd., an investment and management consulting company. Gary has over 40 years of extensive experience in the brokerage, merchant banking, and investment management businesses. He was formerly President of Wisener & Partners (now Merrill Lynch, Canada), President of Triarch Corporation, Chairman of Elliot & Page Limited, President & CEO of Canadian Venture Capital Corporation; Pathfinder Financial Corporation; Landmark Global Financial Corporation. Mr. Van Nest continues to serve as Director of several public companies.

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Thomas I. Allen QC, Director
Mr. Allen is counsel to Ogilvy Renault, specializing in corporate securities and arbitration. Tom is considered to be one of Canada's top corporate governance experts. He is Chairman of Westwind Capital Corporation, past Chairman of the Accounting Standards Oversight Council of Canada and a former member of the Advisory Board of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions of Canada; past Chairman of the Corporate Finance Committee of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada (IDA); a former public director of the IDA for many years; former Vice Chairman of Gordon Capital Partners and a past Director of Mount Sinai Hospital. Mr. Allen is also a director of many public companies.

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Eric Cunningham, Director
Mr. Cunningham is President/Operator of Melrose Strategic Communications Ltd. First elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1975, was re-elected in 1977 and 1981. In 1984, Eric joined the senior management team of the Kingsway Division of Canada Steamship Lines. From 1985-1999 he was the President and CEO of the Ontario Editorial Bureau. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Metro Toronto YMCA, Vice Chair of the Canada Safety Council and a member of the Art Gallery of Hamilton Board of Directors. In 1992, He received the 125th Anniversary Confederation Medal from the Governor General of Canada.

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David Hennigar, Director 
Mr. Hennigar is Chairman of Assisted Living Concepts Inc. (NYSE), Highliner Foods Inc. (TSE), Markland Resource Developments Inc. and Annapolis Group Inc. He is also a Director of Scotia Investments Limited, Keltic Petrochemicals Inc. and Crombie REIT, among others. Previously, David was involved in numerous corporate acquisitions, takeovers and mergers including: acquisition of Fraser Companies by Noranda, Halifax Shipyards by RSV, CN Marine and Hall Shipping and Refinancing of National Sea Products, reverse takeover of Crown Life Insurance by Extendicare Inc., Systems Dimensions by Coastal Enterprises and sale to Datacrown Inc. He founded Acadian Securities Inc. in 1995 and is its Chairman.


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Larry J. Melnichuk, Director
Mr. Melnichuk is Woodland's Vice-President, Design and Engineering. First becoming interested in research while an undergraduate in Science at York University, he began work in his current field in 1990. Following extensive research and testing, he developed a process for the "destruction" of hydrocarbon materials. Larry began developing the technology to convert biomass in 2000. He has extensive experience at process design, laboratory protocols and testing, and equipment specification. As head of Design, Engineering and R&D, he continues the process of inventing and developing new technologies.

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Greg A. Nuttall, Director
Prior to assuming his position as President and CEO at Woodland, Greg was a General Partner of Rubicon Investment Group, a merchant bank focused on accelerating the growth of the companies it acquires and invests in. Prior to co-founding Rubicon in early 2001, Greg was Co-Founder and CEO of Cultural Research, a leading change management research and consulting firm focused on helping large and mid-sized organizations in Canada and the United States. Previously, Greg was a securities/mergers and acquisitions lawyer. Most recently, he practiced at Clifford Chance, the world's largest law firm, where he guided clients such as Goldman Sachs from his London, England base. Prior to this he practiced at Torys, a leading corporate law firm with practices in Toronto and New York. Greg has also been a successful technology investor as a partner of New Economy Capital. Greg earned his Master of International Laws degree at Cambridge University in England and is a Pegasus Scholar.

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