Canada Carbon Appoints Former Boeing and NASA Officials to Advisory Board

Canada Carbon (TSXV:CCB) has appointed Dr. Roger Roberts and Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly to its advisory board. Dr. Roberts is a former senior vice president and chief executive officer at Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) and Vice Admiral Truly is a former Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

As quoted in the press release:

Dr. Roberts is the former SVP and CTO at the Boeing Company and was instrumental in growing the Space and Intelligence business to revenues of over US$5B per year. As Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Satellite Systems, he was responsible for the international satellite business and Spectrolab Scientific Inc., including multi-junction solar products at proven efficiencies in excess of 43%. He has developed an extensive global network of contacts within the aerospace and defense industries across the UK, EU and Canada. Dr. Roberts is recognized in the aerospace industries as a leading strategic thinker, especially as applied to the creation of new businesses and companies.

Vice Admiral Truly began his 30-year career in the U.S. Navy. After distinguished service as a naval aviator, he became one of the first military astronauts and transferred to NASA. Among his accomplishments as an astronaut, Vice Admiral Truly piloted the Space Shuttle Columbia and was commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger for the first night launch and landing in the shuttle program. In 1983, he became the first commander of the Naval Space Command, the principal naval space operations element of the Department of Defense. Called back to NASA as Associate Administrator for Space Flight, he led the accident investigation and rebuilding of the space shuttle program following the Challenger accident. From 1989 to 1992, he served as NASA’s eighth Administrator under President George H. W. Bush.

Canada Carbon executive chairman and CEO, Bruce Duncan, said:

We are very pleased to appoint Dr. Roger Roberts and Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly to Canada Carbon’s Advisory Board. Their collective experience in aerospace, defense and clean energy will assist us in further defining markets for our high purity graphite.

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