CFO - Don Hutton

Don Hutton, CFO. Don has extensive experience as an auditor with an international firm, specializing in the securities business, manufacturing, mining and forest products industries. He founded Radiation Development, a company that developed a method of irradiating wood chips with low energy electrons, altering the molecular structure of the chips, increasing the production of paper and slowing down the deterioration of the wood chips. This was done at the Newport Oregon Georgia Pacific pulp mill. He did the initial funding for Geotype, the developer of a dry transfer technology for the graphic arts industry. Don founded two junior oil companies: Saxton Industries and Cornwall Petroleum. Both were successfully sold. In 1985, he founded Chopp Computer, working with Herbert Sullivan and Dr. Ted Bashkow of Columbia University, New York. They had developed a method of building the first parallel processors for the supercomputer industry. Don, as President and CEO, was responsible for all aspects of the funding of more than $50 million as well as all dealings with the SEC and other regulatory bodies. He retired from active management in 2000, and has been a passive investor since then.