Board of Directors
The Regenesis board of directors is responsible for overseeing management in the development of business plans, policy objectives, and business strategy. Through regular meetings, the board ensures effective organizational planning and sees that company resources are managed properly and are in-line with company goals. The following individuals bring a breadth of skills, experience and diversity to Regenesis and have been instrumental in the growth and vitality of the organization.
Gavin S. Herbert (Chairman)
Scott B. Wilson
Louis T. Rosso
E.H. Clark, Jr.
David S. Tappan, Jr.
Frederick R. McLaren
Sir Eldon Griffiths
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Gavin S. Herbert
Mr. Herbert is the Chairman Emeritus of Allergan, Inc., headquartered in Irvine, CA. Allergan is a global health care company providing eye care and specialty pharmaceutical products worldwide. Mr. Herbert, who helped found the company in 1950, served as its Chairman from 1977 to 1995 as its Chief Executive Officer from 1961-1991.
Mr. Herbert is also owner/Chairman of Roger's Gardens, a large retail nursery in Newport Beach, CA and the Chairman and Founder of Regenesis Bioremediation Products in San Clemente, CA that manufactures and markets products for environmental remediation.
Mr. Herbert is on the Board of Directors of Allergan, Research to Prevent Blindness, Doheny Eye Institute, EyeCare America Foundation, The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation and Vice Chairman of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. He is a Life Trustee of the University of Southern California.
Scott B. Wilson
Mr. Wilson is President and CEO of Regenesis. He has been with the Company since 1996 and served in areas of sales and later as Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Prior to joining Regenesis he was with Groundwater Technology, Inc, a leading international groundwater consulting and engineering firm. In his 9 year career there he held the position of Vice President of Technology where he directed a group of scientists and engineers that led the industry in in situ remediation technologies. Later he became Midwest, Industrial Division Vice President. Mr. Wilson was also appointed to the USEPA Bioaction Committee to serve in the capacity of technical oversight. On a national basis, Mr. Wilson spoke for eight years as a faculty member of the National Water Well Association now known as the National Groundwater Association (NGWA). He has spoken extensively on the topic of groundwater remediation technologies and has also lectured on behalf of the University of Wisconsin.
Mr. Wilson holds a B.A. degree from the University of San Diego (Biology/Chemistry), an M.S. from the University of Texas (Microbiology) and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Louis T. Rosso
Mr. Rosso is Chairman Emeritus of Beckman Coulter, Inc. a manufacturer of laboratory instruments and has been its Chairman of the Board until his retirement in February, 1999. He served as Chief Executive Office from 1988, when Beckman Instruments, Inc. again became a publicly held company, until his retirement as a full-time employee in September, 1998. He also served as Beckman's President from 1982 until 1993, and as Vice President of SmithKline Beckman Corporation from 1982 until 1989.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Allergan, Inc., a global health care company, a member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare Foundation, and Trustee Emeritus and Senior Advisor to the President of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences at the Claremont Colleges.
E.H. Clark, Jr.
Mr. Clark, known as "Hubie", is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Friendship Group, an Investment Partnership and Retired Chairman of Baker Hughes, Inc. Mr. Clark joined Baker as a trainee engineer in 1947 after receiving his B.S. and M.S. degrees with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA. He became Chief Research Engineer of Baker in 1957, Vice President and Assistant General Manager in 1958, President in 1962 and was Chief Executive Officer from 1965 to January 1987.
His civic and philanthropic activities include service as Chairman of the Board of the YMCA of the USA, Former Chairman and now member of the Executive Committee of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, and as past Chairman and currently a Trustee of Harvey Mudd College.
Mr. Clark is a past President and currently a Director of the Petroleum Equipment Supplier's Association, a prior member of the Board of American Petroleum Institute, a member of Regenesis Bioremediation Board of Directors. He is a past member of the National Advisory Committee on the Oceans and Atmosphere and past Chairman of the Board of California Chamber of Commerce and a past member of the Board of the California Committee for Economic Development.
David S. Tappan, Jr.
Mr. Tappan retired as Chairman of Fluor Corporation on December 31, 1990. He remained a member of the Board through December 1994. Since then he continued his directorship on the boards of Genentech, Inc., through June 1999; Beckham Instruments, Inc. through April 1996 and Allianz Insurance Company through March 2000. Mr. Tappan served as a Trustee of The Scripps Research Institute through June 2003 and is currently a Trustee of the University of Southern California.
Frederick R. McLaren
Mr. McLaren received his BSCE and BSSE from Penn State in 1962 and has been a Registered Civil Engineer in both California and Nevada, a Registered Geotechnical Engineer in California, a Diplomat for the American Academy of Environmental Engineering and a Registered Public Health Specialist in California.
From 1962-1972 he was employed at the State of California Departments of Water Resource, Public Health and Water Quality Control Boards. At the time of leaving state service he was Assistant Chief, Division of Water Quality, and State Water Resources Control Board.
From 1973-1976 Mr. McLaren was Vice-President of JB Gilbert & Associates. During this four year period he directed environmental engineering teams on studies and designs for water quality control facilities for major metropolitan areas of California including Sacramento, San Francisco and Lake Tahoe.
From 1976-1991 he was President of McLaren/Hart Environmental Engineering Corporation. The company was best known for its expertise in design and construction of ground water pollution clean-up systems.
From 1992-1996 Mr. McLaren took a sabbatical and from 1997-2000 he became the Chairman of the Board of McClaren Hart. He is currently retired.
Sir Eldon Griffiths
Sir Eldon Griffiths is a truly global citizen. He has engaged in world affairs for four decades as a Member of Parliament and foreign correspondent: author of opinion columns on world issues, director and consultant to multinational companies. He began his career as a Time & Life correspondent covering the U.S. Marines deployment to the war in Korea. Five of his Time cover stories were reprinted in Readers Digest.
Born in England and educated at Cambridge and Yale, Eldon Griffiths was elected in his 30's as M.P. for the safe conservative seat of Bury St. Edmunds. He chaired the Polish, German and Iranian sub-committees of the House of Commons' Foreign Relations Committee and led parliamentary delegations to Zimbabwe, India, Australia and New Zealand. He was chairman of the Indo-British Association and a delegate to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. He served for 17 years as Advisor to the British police and spokesman on terrorism.
Eldon Griffiths was named Minister of Sport and Under Secretary of State in the world's first government Department of the Environment. He helped set up the UN's environmental agency in Nairobi, pioneered U.K. legislation on water, railroads, airports and the Channel Tunnel between England and France, and represented his government at international conferences in Brussels, Washington and Moscow. Margaret Thatcher appointed him as her party's spokesman on European and NATO issues. The Queen knighted him in 1988.
He covered the Bay of Pigs operation against Cubs, landed in Jordan with the British parachute brigade and was held prisoner by the Russian Army in Budapest. He was Newsweek's foreign editor in New York in his early 30's and managing editor of its International editions. His signed opinion column, appeared over many years in Newsweek and the Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph and London Evening News and is now published in the Orange County Register and the Business Journal.
Now living in Laguna Niguel, CA, Sir Eldon has recently published two 400 page biographies, The Hutton Story and Walter: How a German Immigrant Helped Make Orange County Bloom. He also lectures on international business and the Cold War at Chapman University, serves as Chairman of the Korean-American Friendship Society of Southern California and is a holder of the Gold Medal of Honor of Taiwan. A Freeman of the City of London and honorary citizen of Orange County, Sir Eldon was elected National Chairman of WACA in 2001.
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